Raghuram Rajan

Krugman: Effects Of High Unemployment Must Be Handled Now

The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Unemployment, John Maynard Keynes, The American Economic Review, Economy, Raghuram Rajan, Unemployment Insurance, Paul Krugman, Business News

A few days ago, I read an authoritative-sounding paper in The American Economic Review, one of the leading journals in the field, arguing at length th...

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Shahien Nasiripour

A Year After Dodd-Frank, Too Big To Fail Remains Bigger Problem Than Ever

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, Anat Admati, Tbtf, Obama Too Big to Fail, Dodd-Frank, Financial Reform, Too Big to Fail, Raghuram Rajan, Ernest Patrikis, Mitchell Glassman, Business News

WASHINGTON -- A year after Congress passed a landmark law intended to tame the excesses that produced the financial crisis, some experts contend that ...

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Economist: 'The Age Of American Predominance Is Over'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, U.S. Economy, U.S. Economic Decline, Martin Feldstein, Economy, Economic Projections, Raghuram Rajan, Simon Johnson, China, Business News

DENVER (By Mark Felsenthal): To hear a number of prominent economists tell it, it doesn't look good for the U.S. economy, not this year, not in 10 y...

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ReThink Interview: Charles Ferguson, Director of Inside Job

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Derivatives, Financial Reform, Charles Ferguson, Rethink Reviews, Credit Default Swaps, Jonathan Kim, Housing Crisis, Economic Meltdown, Wall Street Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, Wall Street, Rethink Interview, Financial Meltdown, Inside Job, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Deregulation, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Wall Street Bonuses, Financial Regulation, George Soros, Nouriel Roubini, Charles Morris, Alan Sloan, Raghuram Rajan, Simon Johnson, Inside Job Interview, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

People interviewed in Inside Job claim that finance professionals deserve their money. But can someone rationally argue that someone earning $30 million/year works 1,000 times harder than someone earning $30,000/year?

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Business Book Of The Year Crowned

GalleyCat | Maryann Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business Books, Financial TImes, Raghuram Fault Lines, Business Book of the Year, Goldman Sachs, Fault Lines, Business News, Raghuram Rajan, Business, Raghuram-Rajan, Books News

Raghuram G. Rajan won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for his book, Fault Lines. A £30,000 prize (approximately $47...

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How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Income Gap, Wealthy, Middle Class Wages, Income Inequality, Third World America, Great Recession, Raghuram Rajan, Emmanuel Saez, Banks, Wage Stagnation, Paul Krugman, American International Group, Great Depression, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters, By Emily Kaiser) - In 2007, when the world was on the brink of financial crisis, U.S. income inequality hit its highest mark sin...

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