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... Private Product 347xi America’s Great Depression xii America’s Great Depression Introduction to the Fifth EditionThe Wall Street collapse of September–October 1929 andthe Great Depression which ... 8The explanation: boom and depression 9Secondary features of depression: deflationary credit contraction 14Government depression policy: laissez-faire 19Preventing depressions 23Problems in ... INFLATION: ECONOMISTS AND THE LURE OF A STABLE PRICE LEVEL 169PART III: THE GREAT DEPRESSION: 1929–19337 PRELUDE TO DEPRESSION: MR. HOOVER AND LAISSEZ-FAIRE 185The development of Hoover’s interventionism:...

... Private Product 347xi America’s Great Depression xii America’s Great Depression Introduction to the Fifth EditionThe Wall Street collapse of September–October 1929 andthe Great Depression which ... 8The explanation: boom and depression 9Secondary features of depression: deflationary credit contraction 14Government depression policy: laissez-faire 19Preventing depressions 23Problems in ... enough to sellall of their product.3But won’t they then suffer losses? Of course,56 America’s Great Depression 1See the discussion by Scott in Wesley C. Mitchell, Business Cycles: TheProblem...

... 174.7Total3,157.3DangerousUnintendedConsequences:HowBankingBailouts,BuyoutsandNationalizationCanOnlyProlong America’s Second Great Depression andWeakenAnySubsequentRecoveryPresentedbyMartinD.Weiss,Ph.D.WeissResearch,Inc.NationalPressClubWashington,DCMarch19,200920Inconclusion,beyondthe$2.32trillioninassetsofbanksatriskbasedontheirFinancialStrengthRatingscitedinPartI,WeissResearchestimatesthereareadditionalassetsof$3.16trillioninlargeinstitutionsatrisk,foratotalof$5.48trillioninat‐riskinstitutions.21PartIIISilencingthePotentialTriggersofGlobalCollapseDoesNotAddressItsCausesAnyonestillskepticalofthenatureandmagnitudeofthesystemicdangersneedonlyreviewtheFebruary26,2009draftmemorandumissuedbyAIG,titled“AIG:IstheRiskSystemic?”Althoughmarked“strictlyconfidential,”itfounditswayintothepublicdomaininearlyMarch.19Init,AIGstates: ... $36,405,06023However,ifthisglobalstructureisshaky,neitherafuturefailureofAIGnorthe2008bankruptcyofLehmanBrotherscanbeproperlyconstruedastheunderlyingcause.Rather,theyaremerelypotentialtriggersofaglobalcollapse.Theunderlyingcausesofglobalinstabilityaremanyyearsofoverborrowingandundersaving,plusthecumulativeweightoftheU.S.housingbust,mortgagemeltdown,widespreaddeleveraginginthefinancialsystem,andthedeepesteconomicdownturnsincethe Great Depression. Meanwhile,thepotentialtriggersofaglobalcollapseareubiquitous—notlimitedtojustoneortwofirmssuchasAIGorLehmanBrothers.Aswedemonstrateinthispaper,inthebankingindustryalone,thereareatleastfourmegabanksandthousandsofsmallerinstitutionsatrisk.Thus,althoughabundanttaxpayerfundsmaylockdownsomeofthepotentialtriggerssomeofthetime,itisunreasonabletoexpectthegovernmenttosilenceallthegunsallthetime.24PartIVU.S.CommercialBanksAreVulnerabletoContagionDespiteExpandedDepositInsuranceOnejustificationoftencitedprivately—andsometimespublicly—forgovernmentactionstoavertlargebankfailuresistheconcernthat ... to“optout”andaccepttheirshareofwhatevercashwasavailable,oftenaslittleas50centsonthedollar.Further,inordertodiscourageopt‐outs,theauthoritiesimposedanadditionalpenaltyforthoseseekingimmediatereimbursement.Overall,however,bothchoicesinvolvedsimilarlylargelosses,eitheracceptedimmediatelyupfrontviaalossofprincipalorincurredovertimeviaalossofincome.Thisepisodewastheworstinsuranceindustrydisastersincethe Great Depression. Andalthoughinadifferentindustry,thelessonstobelearnedfromthisexperiencecanbeveryinstructiveforthebankingindustryanditsregulators:Lesson1.Itisamistakeforbankstoprovide,orforregulatorstopermit,guaranteedorabove‐marketyields.Yet,thisisanerrorthathasbeenfrequentlyrepeatedintherecenthistoryofbankingtroubles.20Datasource:Statutoryreports(“BlueBooks”)filedwiththestateinsurancecommissioners.27Lesson2....

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