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James Kwak

James Kwak is a former McKinsey consultant, a co-founder of Guidewire Software, and currently a student at the Yale Law School. He is a co-founder of The Baseline Scenario.

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James Kwak's Latest Articles | 133

Is It 1999 All Over Again?

Nov 25, 2009| 

The New York Times’ Bits blog has a post on Trefis, a Web 2.0 startup that apparently makes it easy for you to create your own valuation model for public companies.... Read »

More on Goldman and AIG

Nov 25, 2009| 

Thomas Adams, a lawyer and former bond insurer executive, wrote a guest post for naked capitalism on the question of why AIG (AIG) was bailed out and the monoline... Read »

Data on the Debt

Nov 25, 2009| 

So far, my foray into the world of the national debt has consisted of this: Don’t try to scare people with hyperinflation unless you have some basis for doing... Read »

Blaming It on Obama

Nov 23, 2009| 

Last week I wrote a post about “government debt hysteria” that has gotten a lot of attention because of a link from Paul Krugman. (As Felix Salmon, said, “blogging... Read »

Government Debt Hysteria

Nov 20, 2009| 

I don’t spend a lot of time trying to police the economic news media — Dean Baker and Brad DeLong are much better on that — but I found myself reading a two-week-old... Read »

How Did This One Make the Cut?

Nov 16, 2009| 

Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times (hat tip Calculated Risk) reports that the recent Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009 (which included... Read »

Note to Jamie Dimon: Repeating Something Won’t Make It True

Nov 13, 2009| 

In the Washington Post, Jamie Dimon asserts that we shouldn’t “try to impose artificial limits on the size of U.S. financial institutions.” Why not? “Scale... Read »

Blankfein Defends Goldman Against Breakup Advocates

Nov 10, 2009| 

That’s the title of a Bloomberg article that also cites Bernie Sanders and Simon. Here are the direct quotes from Blankfein: “Our business is very complex, and... Read »

Free Markets and Swine Flu

Nov 4, 2009| 

In a free market, companies should be allowed to decide whether or not to offer paid sick leave to employees. At the margin, employees who value paid sick leave... Read »

Note to Congress: You Are Not the People You Serve

Nov 2, 2009| 

From a Washington Post article on proposed legislation to regulate overdraft fees: “Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) said he avoided overdraft fees with a credit line... Read »

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