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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Lehman Was Not Alone – Measuring System Risk in the 2008 Crisis

Sep 21, 2013

what would measures of systematic risk have indicated to Treasury Secretary Paulsen if they had been available at that time?

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The Failure of Free-Market Finance

Sep 16, 2013

Five years after the collapse of the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, the world has still not addressed the fundamental cause of the subsequent financial crisis – an excess of debt. And that is why economic recovery has progressed much more slowly than anyone expected (in some countries, it has not come at all).

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The Financial World Five Years after Lehman Brothers

Sep 16, 2013

What have we learned about the American political economy from the crisis and its aftermath?