Financial Crisis Links
My Social Science Colloquium presentation 2 October 2008 (Powerpoint 312 KB)
Forums on the Crisis
Princeton (this link has both Powerpoints in pdf form and the video)
Harvard (this is a link to a page that links to the Real Player video--look for Harvard Panel Discussion)
This American Life Radio Episodes
Economists' Blogs
EconBrowser (James Hamilton and Menzie Chinn) General commentary on macroeconomy
Paul Krugman Very intelligent commentary (liberal politics)
Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok) Eclectic, wide ranging (Libertarian)
EconLog (Arnold Kling and Bryan Caplan) Skeptical of bailout (Libertarian)
Economists View Very comprehensive
Financial Market Blogs
Market Movers (Felix Salmon) Intelligent commentary
Hilaious, informative, perhaps unfair description of securitization (powerpoint) PG-13
Subprime Evolution (2 MBPowerpoint Presentation)
Newspaper Columns of Interest:
(These are all by credible economists)
Kenneth Rogoff: Significant Reasons to Doubt Widsom of the Bail-out
Figure 1: Interest Rates:
Federal Reserve Statistical Release, H.15, Selected Interest Rates
Exchange Rates :
Federal Federal Reserve Statistical Release, H.10, Foreign Exchange Rates (Daily) Historical Data
Summary Measures of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar
St. Louis Fed's FRED II Database
Treasury Dept (Information on Interest Rate Statistics)
Federal Reserve Board Statistics Releases
Description
of S&P Indices
This page provides descriptions of the S&P
indexes.
A very clever picture of the stock market provided by Smart Money.
Everbank World Currency Deposits
Federal Federal Reserve Statistical Release, H.10, Foreign Exchange Rates (Daily) Historical Data
Federal Reserve Release H8 on Banks
Bernanke Speech on Fed Policy, Reserves, and Interest Rates
Reserve Requirements from the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
Options
Link to Brochurse from Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Board
of Trade (now owned by the Chicago Mercantiel Exchange)
"The World's Leading Futures and Options Exchange".
Products traded on this exchange and described at this web site include:
Agricultural Commodities
Financial Instruments CBOT®
DJIA Futures and Futures Options
Project A®
CBOT Recylables Exchange
CBOT - U.S. EPA SO2 Auction
Federal Reserve Publications Sites
This is a good starting place, which points to numerous resources, and contains information on how to read annual reports.