Thursday, November 20, 2008

Reason.TV on the Bailout

Some interesting videos with economists talking about the crisis, bailout and what to worry about.

The first speaker is “UCLA economist Lee E. Ohanian, coauthor of a startling new paper arguing that the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression by about seven years, [who] talked with reason.tv about the past six weeks of apparent economic crisis and the government's bewildering bailout response. Ohanian’s main concern, and one that is never sufficiently appreciated: ‘Periods of crisis often beget bad policies.’”

In addition, on bailouts:

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