CFA Research Foundation takes a first crack at writing the history book of the 2008 financial crisis

Mar 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Academic Research, Today's Post | By: Guest
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By: Steve Deutsch, CAIA, Morningstar, Member of the AllAboutAlpha.com Editorial Board

More perspective is now starting to arrive on the “Subprime Credit Crisis of 2008-9” – insight that will surely be honed or revised further over time.  Books and articles that attempt to identify the causes and – more importantly perhaps – the solutions to avoiding a recurrence are now quite prolific, including just this month a recommendation for limited purpose banking with the attention-grabbing title of, “Jimmy Stewart is Dead.” More…


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