Prieur’s readings (March 15, 2010)

This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

• Harry Markopolos (BusinessWeek):  How I got the goods on Madoff, and why no one would listen, March 11, 2010.
Harry Markopolos and his ad hoc team of sleuths spent eight years trying to expose Bernie Madoff as a fraud – but the SEC turned a deaf ear. His new book tells the sad tale. (Click here for Amazon’s page on “No One Would Listen”.)

• Simon Johnson (The Huffington Post): The speech for which we have been waiting, March 15, 2010.
For nearly two years now we have waited for a speech. We need a simple speech and a direct speech – most of all a political speech – about what exactly happened to our financial system, and therefore to our economy, and what we must do to make sure it can never happen again. On Thursday, Senator Ted Kaufman (D., DE) is due to deliver a strong blow to the overly powerful and unproductively mighty within our financial sector.

• Ted Kaufman: Wall Street reform that will prevent the next financial crisis, March 11, 2010.
Financial regulatory reform is perhaps the most important legislation that the Congress will address for many years to come. Because if we don’t get it right, the consequences of another financial meltdown could truly be devastating.

• Phil Izzo (The Wall Street Journal): Economists credit Fed for alleviating crisis, March 12, 2010.
The $787 billion stimulus package was a good for the U.S

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