Monday, June 9, 2008

Regulating Investment Banks

Should investment banks be regulated more closely as promised by Obama's economic adviser Austan Goolsbee and advocated by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke?

Brad DeLong defends the policy with an unfavorable comparison of deregulation to Hoover's policies going into the Great Depression.

Certain regulations strengthen the free market economy, rather than weaken it.

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