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Pitfalls of the Paulson Plan

  • Jonathan Carmel
Published/Copyright: October 2, 2008
The Economists' Voice
From the journal The Economists' Voice Volume 5 Issue 5

Jonathan Carmel explains that the auctions on which the Paulson plan relies are no magic bullet, and the problems of adverse selection that are causing the banks trouble could continue after $700 billion is spent.

Published Online: 2008-10-2

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  1. Column
  2. Investment Banking Regulation After Bear Stearns
  3. Why Paulson is Wrong
  4. Dr. StrangeLoan: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Financial Collapse
  5. Questioning the Treasury's $700 Billion Blank Check: An Open Letter to Secretary Paulson
  6. Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan
  7. A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis
  8. Please Think This Over
  9. Good Bailouts and Bad
  10. We Aren't Done Yet: Comments on the Financial Crisis and Bailout
  11. Quashing the Financial Firestorm
  12. Pitfalls of the Paulson Plan
  13. Letter
  14. Letter: Another Take on "Why Paulson is Wrong"
  15. Letter: How to Drink the Sub-Prime Kool-Aid
  16. Letter: Republican Opposition to Debt Reduction in Financial Crises--The Great Depression and Today
  17. Letter: The Dangers of Forgetting Moral Hazard
  18. Letter: The Bailout and What Next
https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1423

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Column
  2. Investment Banking Regulation After Bear Stearns
  3. Why Paulson is Wrong
  4. Dr. StrangeLoan: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Financial Collapse
  5. Questioning the Treasury's $700 Billion Blank Check: An Open Letter to Secretary Paulson
  6. Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan
  7. A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis
  8. Please Think This Over
  9. Good Bailouts and Bad
  10. We Aren't Done Yet: Comments on the Financial Crisis and Bailout
  11. Quashing the Financial Firestorm
  12. Pitfalls of the Paulson Plan
  13. Letter
  14. Letter: Another Take on "Why Paulson is Wrong"
  15. Letter: How to Drink the Sub-Prime Kool-Aid
  16. Letter: Republican Opposition to Debt Reduction in Financial Crises--The Great Depression and Today
  17. Letter: The Dangers of Forgetting Moral Hazard
  18. Letter: The Bailout and What Next
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