Posts by: Jo Breiner

Lehman Brothers’ collapse

September 15th marks the 2nd anniverary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse. Mark Williams, a former Federal Reserve Bank examiner,  is the author of “Uncontrolled Risk.”  He is Executive-in-Residence/Master Lecturer in the School of Management. “It has been two years since Lehman Brothers fell and almost brought down the entire financial system. Despite the financial pain uncorked […]

New Basel III rules decided

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision announced new rules in hopes of making the global banking industry safer. Will the new rules work? LAW professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law and former counsel to the Fed Board of Governors, gives his view on the impact of the new […]

James Post: Hurd’s move to Oracle major risk

Poll shows GOP gaining on Dems

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows the GOP gaining on Democrats heading into the midterm elections. Political Science professor Graham Wilson, author of  “Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective,” offers his view. ” Obama is the victim of two totally unrealistic expectations, one of which he encouraged himself. One is that the U.S. economy could […]

An analysis of President Obama’s Iraq Address

President Obama spoke from the Oval Office on Tuesday night declaring “it’s time to turn the page” on the seven-year combat mission in Iraq. International Relations professor William Keylor gave his analysis of the president’s speech in an interview on NECN saying “This war is coming to an end not with a bang, but with […]

William Keylor on the Afghan war

Tom Whalen on President Obama’s fight for healthcare reform

Bob Bench comments on concerns of Wall Street as G20 meets

Prof. William Keylor comments on “Bloodshed in Afghanistan”

Social Science Prof. Tom Whalen on the legacy of Sen. Kennedy

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