Tag: Program on Financial Stability Yale

  • Ten Years Ago

    Ten years after the Panic of 2008 began, the hardest thing is dealing with the might-have-been in its immediate aftermath.  What if President Barack Obama had better understood the situation he inherited? He might have emulated Franklin Delano Roosevelt and begun his term as explainer-in-chief. He might have devised some modern equivalent of FDR’s “fireside…