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Andrew Cassel

Andrew Cassel is editor in chief of the Dismal Scientist for Moody's Economy.com. He spent 25 years as a business reporter, editor and columnist for daily newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Miami Herald. He has an A.B. from Dartmouth College.

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Sep 01, 2010  Squawk Alert
Aug 26, 2010  Playing the Odds
Aug 26, 2010  Breakfast with the Monitor
Aug 23, 2010  A Double Dip for Housing?
Aug 19, 2010  Regions at Risk
Aug 18, 2010  Fix 'em or Forget 'em?
Aug 17, 2010  Tax Cuts, Pro and Con
Aug 17, 2010  Sundays with Fox
Aug 13, 2010  Potholes in Recovery Road
Aug 06, 2010  Employment Watch
Aug 04, 2010  The Real Bailout
Aug 04, 2010  Up With Cramdowns
Aug 02, 2010  Mornings with C-SPAN
Jul 30, 2010  More on Policy and Recession
Jul 30, 2010  Parsing the Second Quarter
Jul 29, 2010  Of Models, Stimulus and the Great Recession
Jul 28, 2010  Facts and Counterfacts
Jul 28, 2010  How the Recession Was Beaten
Jul 22, 2010  How Are We Doing?
Jul 21, 2010  Another Inconvenient Truth
Jul 19, 2010  Assessing Damage in the Gulf
Jul 16, 2010  Explaining UI
Jul 15, 2010  The Recovery Rolls On
Jul 14, 2010  Credit Scorecard
Jul 13, 2010  Viva Spain. Now Back to Work
Jul 12, 2010  Back From Break
Jun 23, 2010  Recalculating the Default Option
Jun 23, 2010  Why U.S. Productivity Might Fall Off this Month
Jun 09, 2010  Rethinking Homeownership (Again)
Jun 01, 2010  Two Hundred Years
May 27, 2010  Once Around the Rink
May 26, 2010  Taking a Breather
May 26, 2010  Talking Politics
May 21, 2010  Sausage Being Made
May 20, 2010  On Air in the Big Apple
May 17, 2010  Belated Horn Tooting
May 06, 2010  Best and Worst Housing Markets
May 06, 2010  Recovery Timeline
May 06, 2010  Global Warming
May 03, 2010  Follow Us on Twitter
Apr 28, 2010  Calculating Stocks' Value
Apr 27, 2010  Deja Vu All Over Again?
Apr 21, 2010  Wineconomics Update
Apr 21, 2010  Taxes and Shelter
Apr 19, 2010  The Squawk Box View
Apr 16, 2010  Live from New York
Apr 15, 2010  VAT's Happening?
Apr 14, 2010  The Fannie-Freddie Suggestion Box
Apr 12, 2010  Dating Dos and Don'ts
Apr 07, 2010  The Forecast Also Rises
Apr 02, 2010  Whom Do You Owe?
Mar 30, 2010  Mortgage Mysteries
Mar 30, 2010  Are Home Sales Bouncing?
Mar 28, 2010  Health Reform: Success and Failure
Mar 24, 2010  Another Mass. Miracle?
Mar 24, 2010  Lone Star Status
Mar 22, 2010  Employment Forecast
Mar 19, 2010  Tracking the Recovery
Mar 18, 2010  The Maestro Speaks
Mar 17, 2010  Stuck in the Partisan Thicket
Mar 08, 2010  Meme Change
Mar 01, 2010  Historical Page Turners
Mar 01, 2010  A Dish Best Eaten Cold
Feb 22, 2010  Asia Update
Feb 17, 2010  Japan's Liquidity Trap
Feb 17, 2010  Making Sense of Greece
Feb 12, 2010  Inside the Beltway
Feb 03, 2010  Is There An Optimal Homeownership Rate?
Jan 26, 2010  Have Home Prices Turned?
Jan 23, 2010  Bank Regulation: Good, Bad & Ugly
Jan 21, 2010  Indexing Adversity Again
Jan 13, 2010  The Inquiry Opens
Jan 12, 2010  Housing Bubbles, Here and There
Jan 08, 2010  Asia-Pacific Outlook
Dec 17, 2009  The Rap on Keynes
Dec 17, 2009  Good Morning Sydney
Dec 14, 2009  Housing Snapshot
Dec 10, 2009  The Return of Saving
Dec 09, 2009  State of the States
Dec 03, 2009  The Summit for Unemployment
Dec 03, 2009  Unleashing Small Business
Nov 27, 2009  Who Expected Dubai?
Nov 19, 2009  The Great Debate
Nov 17, 2009  Family Violence and Football
Nov 16, 2009  When Will Housing Rise Again?
Nov 09, 2009  Where Were You When the Wall Came Down?
Nov 05, 2009  A Jobseeker's Road Atlas
Nov 05, 2009  The Housing Market Also Rises
Nov 05, 2009  From the Great Recession to the New Normal
Nov 04, 2009  The Bronx Awaits
Nov 04, 2009  Small Business and the Baby Boomers
Nov 03, 2009  Waiting Again for the FOMC
Nov 03, 2009  A Hand for the Little Guy
Oct 29, 2009  GMAC, Stimulus and More
Oct 29, 2009  Irrational Exuberance Redux
Oct 26, 2009  Healthcare and Market Share
Oct 21, 2009  Kiwi Talk
Oct 20, 2009  Shadowing the Fed
Oct 15, 2009  The Agony of the Skyscraper
Oct 15, 2009  Recovery, Block by Block
Oct 14, 2009  Expand or Expire?
Oct 13, 2009  Squaring off on TBTF
Oct 10, 2009  The Stimulus Success Story
Oct 09, 2009  The Big Apple Is Still Humming
Oct 08, 2009  Credit When It's Due
Oct 06, 2009  Forward, into the Past
Oct 05, 2009  The Boomers' Dilemma
Oct 05, 2009  Market Wu Speaks
Oct 01, 2009  China at 60: Growing Strong?
Sep 30, 2009  Megalopolitan Roundup
Sep 29, 2009  The Long View
Sep 24, 2009  Decline and Rise
Sep 23, 2009  Repo Man
Sep 17, 2009  Mapping the U.S. Recovery
Sep 16, 2009  Thinking Like an Economist
Sep 10, 2009  Stimulus Followup
Sep 10, 2009  Award Winners
Aug 20, 2009  Baltimore Calling
Aug 18, 2009  Sic Transit Fortune 500
Aug 16, 2009  Gross Domestic What?
Aug 12, 2009  Looking Back at Lehman
Aug 11, 2009  Scarred for Life by Recession?
Aug 07, 2009  The Housing Imperative
Aug 06, 2009  More Like Us
Aug 03, 2009  Playing Catchup
Aug 03, 2009  Race to Recovery
Jul 29, 2009  Map Quest
Jul 28, 2009  Digging Deeper
Jul 27, 2009  Digging Out of Plastic Gulch
Jul 24, 2009  Mind Over Mortgage?
Jul 20, 2009  Down So Long It Looks Like Up
Jul 16, 2009  The Foreclosure Trap
Jul 15, 2009  Declaration of Independence
Jul 15, 2009  Talkin' Bout My Generation
Jul 09, 2009  Stim und Drang
Jul 09, 2009  The Inflation Variations
Jul 07, 2009  Another Round?
Jul 07, 2009  Graphical Grabbers
Jun 30, 2009  The Quantity of Justice
Jun 29, 2009  Stimulus Countdown
Jun 26, 2009  Looking Up Down Under
Jun 25, 2009  Crisis Poster
Jun 25, 2009  Stats-alooza
Jun 24, 2009  Contrarian Corner
Jun 23, 2009  Jingle Bells in June
Jun 23, 2009  India Nutshell
Jun 22, 2009  The View from Harvard
Jun 18, 2009  LIFO or FIFO?
Jun 15, 2009  Down So Long It Looks Like Up?
Jun 15, 2009  The Long View
Jun 11, 2009  Tables of Content
Jun 11, 2009  Kiwi Alert
Jun 09, 2009  Graphic Novelty
Jun 08, 2009  Trade Watchdogs
Jun 04, 2009  Going Green
Jun 03, 2009  Plastic Memory Lane
Jun 01, 2009  Time for Plan B
Jun 01, 2009  Hands Across the Straits
May 29, 2009  The Bankruptcy Game
May 28, 2009  A Banking Reformation?
May 24, 2009  The East is Rising, Maybe
May 21, 2009  Seasons Turning
May 19, 2009  Death (Political) and Taxes (Carbon)
May 18, 2009  Bogle Blogging
May 14, 2009  Save the Date
May 12, 2009  Contemplate the Counterfactual
May 12, 2009  Birth, Death, etc.
May 12, 2009  Bull Call
May 07, 2009  Following the Wave
May 06, 2009  Poor Mexico
May 06, 2009  Out of the Net
May 05, 2009  Say What?
May 04, 2009  Hitting Bottom?
May 01, 2009  Cramdown Lowdown
Apr 30, 2009  Noble Praise
Apr 29, 2009  Raising the Temperature
Apr 29, 2009  View from the Top
Apr 28, 2009  Heat Stroke
Apr 28, 2009  Social Security Check
Apr 27, 2009  Flu Shot
Apr 26, 2009  Early Warning
Apr 24, 2009  Flood Tide Ebbing
Apr 21, 2009  Follow the Money
Apr 21, 2009  They Still Don't Get It
Apr 21, 2009  How Big Was It?
Apr 15, 2009  Auto Pilot
Apr 14, 2009  What Drove the Oil Spike?
Apr 14, 2009  Crawl Before You Walk
Apr 09, 2009  Time's Chic Geek?
Apr 07, 2009  Peering Into the Recession
Apr 06, 2009  Funny Money II
Apr 03, 2009  What G-20 Means
Apr 01, 2009  Rumbling Tumbrels
Mar 31, 2009  Douse That Light!
Mar 31, 2009  Stimulate My Ride
Mar 30, 2009  The Least Worst Option
Mar 30, 2009  More Stimulus Effects
Mar 27, 2009  Funny Money
Mar 23, 2009  Fruitful Multipliers
Mar 23, 2009  Geithner's Plan
Mar 20, 2009  Bonus Question
Mar 19, 2009  Rewiring the Fed
Mar 19, 2009  How Sweden Did It
Mar 19, 2009  Easing Quantitatively
Mar 15, 2009  The Chairman's Jacket
Mar 15, 2009  Question of the Week
Mar 14, 2009  Apple or Cherry?
Mar 13, 2009  What, They're Worried?
Mar 12, 2009  About that 2nd Stimulus
Mar 12, 2009  Recession in the Pew
Mar 10, 2009  A Second Stimulus?
Mar 09, 2009  The East Is Red
(So Is the West)
Mar 08, 2009  Deconstructing Homeownership
Mar 08, 2009  Foreclosure, the Sequel
Mar 06, 2009  Live On Line
Mar 05, 2009  Market Timing
Mar 04, 2009  Through a Different Lens
Mar 03, 2009  Stimulus Effects
Mar 02, 2009  Market Defense
Mar 02, 2009  The Latte Recession
Mar 02, 2009  Ransom Note or Reality Check?
Mar 01, 2009  Book Talk
Feb 25, 2009  Thai Lessons
Feb 23, 2009  From the Summit
Feb 22, 2009  From Here to Nationalization?
Feb 22, 2009  What to Worry About
Feb 22, 2009  Not to Worry...
Feb 19, 2009  More Crash Geography
Feb 19, 2009  Hear Hear
Feb 19, 2009  Change We Need
Feb 17, 2009  Is There a God? Will Stimulus Work?
Feb 17, 2009  Crash Geography
Feb 17, 2009  Even More Condensed
Feb 15, 2009  Zandi on Stimulus (Condensed)
Feb 12, 2009  Recommended Reading
Feb 11, 2009  Bargain Basements
Feb 11, 2009  How We Do It
Feb 11, 2009  Chez Geithner
Feb 11, 2009  Stages of Grief
Feb 10, 2009  Immiseration Now
Feb 10, 2009  Anti-Stimulus?
Feb 09, 2009  The Other Stimulus
Feb 05, 2009  Busy Guy
Feb 05, 2009  A Light Ahead?
Feb 05, 2009  Policy Hits Home
Feb 04, 2009  Beating the Times
Feb 04, 2009  Credit Crunching
Feb 03, 2009  Plain Speaking
Feb 03, 2009  For the Record
Feb 02, 2009  Recession and Society
Jan 30, 2009  Expanding Horizons
Jan 30, 2009  The Lines Get Longer
Jan 29, 2009  Flying Down to Rio
Jan 28, 2009  The Smoot-Hawley Samba?
Jan 28, 2009  Same Birds, New Branch
Jan 28, 2009  What They Said
Jan 27, 2009  Mad Man
Jan 27, 2009  Grading the Stimulus
Jan 26, 2009  Equal Opportunity
Jan 25, 2009  "R" and "D" Defined
Jan 23, 2009  Calling Smoot & Hawley
Jan 23, 2009  Currency Conundrum
Jan 22, 2009  Dollar Hooey
Jan 22, 2009  Et Tu, Microsoft?
Jan 21, 2009  That 80s Show
Jan 18, 2009  The Worst Since
Jan 18, 2009  Shrinking the Banks
Jan 16, 2009  Oh. Canada.
Jan 14, 2009  The Real Recession Risk
Jan 13, 2009  Stimulus Symposium
Jan 13, 2009  Liberals for Less Government
Jan 12, 2009  The Complexity Culprit
Jan 12, 2009  How Bad Was It?
Jan 11, 2009  A Lost Decade
Jan 11, 2009  Summoning Demons
Jan 11, 2009  Grammarian Smackdown
Jan 09, 2009  The Economic Grammarian
Jan 09, 2009  Remember Peak Oil?
Jan 09, 2009  Don't Look Back
Jan 08, 2009  Time Marches On
Jan 08, 2009  Cramdown Breakthrough
Jan 08, 2009  Australia Calling
Jan 07, 2009  How to Sell A House
Jan 07, 2009  The CBO View
Jan 06, 2009  Stimulating Debate
Jan 06, 2009  Talkin' Bout My Generation
Jan 05, 2009  Is Risk Measurable?
Jan 05, 2009  How to Spend It
Jan 04, 2009  Greed and Gravity
Jan 04, 2009  Stimulus Consensus
Dec 24, 2008  A New Year
Dec 24, 2008  Summing Up
Dec 24, 2008  Shocking Condition
Dec 22, 2008  Mortgage Mods Again
Dec 22, 2008  Pick Your Poison
Dec 18, 2008  TARP Under the Tree
Dec 17, 2008  How Big a Jolt?
Dec 17, 2008  Dig We Must
Dec 17, 2008  Whose Shovel is Ready?
Dec 17, 2008  How the Fed Plays in India
Dec 16, 2008  Recession Markers Again
Dec 16, 2008  The Fed Boldly Goes ...
Dec 15, 2008  Another Recession Marker
Dec 14, 2008  How to Spend It
Dec 12, 2008  Call It What You Will
Dec 11, 2008  Predicting the Trough
Dec 10, 2008  Global Crisis, Global Response
Dec 10, 2008  What a Word's Worth
Dec 10, 2008  Contrary Views
Dec 10, 2008  A Lost Decade?
Dec 09, 2008  Buying Time for Detroit
Dec 08, 2008  Mortgage-Mod Conundrum
Dec 05, 2008  Bipartisan Provocateur
Dec 05, 2008  Welcome to Hard Times
Dec 04, 2008  Detroit Up on Blocks
Dec 03, 2008  McMansion Farewell?
Dec 03, 2008  World View
Dec 02, 2008  Off the Tube
Dec 01, 2008  Frequently Asked
Dec 01, 2008  The Dating Game
Dec 01, 2008  Asia Spotlight
Dec 01, 2008  For Serious Readers
Nov 26, 2008  Look Toward the Rising Sun
Nov 23, 2008  Car Consensus
Nov 21, 2008  Our Man at Treasury
Nov 20, 2008  The Zen of Oil
Nov 19, 2008  The Once-Almighty Dollar?
Nov 18, 2008  Shoulda Woulda Coulda
Nov 17, 2008  Defining Down the Economy
Nov 17, 2008  Nuestra culpa
Nov 17, 2008  Line Forms to the Left
Nov 17, 2008  Crisis of the Neos
Nov 14, 2008  It's a Recessionary World, After All
Nov 13, 2008  How's That Again?
Nov 12, 2008  Paulson to Markets: Never Mind
Nov 12, 2008  Poetry Corner
Nov 11, 2008  How is Maine Lobster Like Gasoline?
Nov 11, 2008  The Unofficial Official Word
Nov 10, 2008  In Defense of Depressions?
Nov 07, 2008  Strangest Credit Card News of the Day
Nov 06, 2008  BoE's Happy Warrior Prevails
Nov 05, 2008  Global Imbalances in 8GB
Nov 04, 2008  What Do We Do Now?
Nov 04, 2008  Big Cuts Down Under
Nov 04, 2008  Another Era, Another End
Nov 03, 2008  Today's Most Confusing Headline
Oct 31, 2008  A Future for Fannie & Freddie
Oct 31, 2008  Recession, State by State
Oct 29, 2008  Is the Fed Offering Surgery or a Sugar Pill?
Oct 29, 2008  Look on the Bright Side
Oct 28, 2008  Another Stimulus, Anyone?
Oct 27, 2008  Which Came First?
Oct 27, 2008  Trolling for the Bottom
Oct 27, 2008  The End of Inequality?
Oct 24, 2008  The Crisis is Everywhere (but in the Data?)
Oct 24, 2008  Nothing to Fear
Oct 23, 2008  How the Credit Crunch Sinks Global Trade
Oct 23, 2008  The Credit-Score Conundrum
Oct 22, 2008  A Major League Slump
Oct 21, 2008  Election Results are In
Oct 21, 2008  Crunch Was in the Cards
Oct 21, 2008  When the Fed Gets Fiscal
Oct 21, 2008  Looking Differently at Japan (2)
Oct 20, 2008  Looking Differently at Japan
Oct 20, 2008  Is China Over?
Oct 19, 2008  Do Not Pass Go. Do Not Collect $200.
Oct 17, 2008  Warren Buffett Gets Greedy
Oct 17, 2008  Back and Forth on Housing Starts
Oct 16, 2008  Risk, Shock and Forecasting With a Ruler
Oct 16, 2008  It's Bad. Just Not 1929 Bad.
Oct 15, 2008  Bienvenidos a Uruguay
Oct 15, 2008  At the Intersection of Wall St. and Reality
Oct 15, 2008  Housing, Labor Mobility and Economic Growth
Oct 14, 2008  From a Crisis Come New Ideas
Oct 14, 2008  Latest Moves by Fed, Treasury, FDIC
Oct 14, 2008  We're from the Government, and We're Here to Help
Oct 13, 2008  Dow Up 11%. In Just One Day.
Oct 13, 2008  Long Island Boy Makes Good
Oct 13, 2008  Financial System's Saved. Now How About Christmas?
Oct 12, 2008  A Timeline to Recovery
Oct 11, 2008  How Things Went from Bad to Worse
Oct 10, 2008  They Expected a Different Crisis
Oct 10, 2008  Where Stocks Are Headed
Oct 08, 2008  The Kitchen Sink Rate Cut
Oct 07, 2008  Bringing it All Back Home
Oct 07, 2008  At Long Last, Thrift
Oct 07, 2008  Contrary Indicators
Oct 06, 2008  Why the Fed Wants to Pay Interest
Oct 06, 2008  Another Reason to Worry About Your Job
Oct 05, 2008  A Subdued Crisis in Asia
Oct 05, 2008  The Recession Next Door
Oct 03, 2008  There's a Credit Crunch Around Here Somewhere
Oct 03, 2008  Ok, They Passed It. Now What?
Oct 03, 2008  Paulson Plan Paradox
Oct 02, 2008  Stiff in the Joints, or Rigor Mortis?
Oct 02, 2008  Conversations With the Archdruid
Oct 02, 2008  People, Not Abstract Forces, Make History
Oct 02, 2008  A Simple Solution
Oct 01, 2008  Senate Moves; Asians Unmoved
Oct 01, 2008  Tipping the FDIC Cap
Sep 30, 2008  A K.I.S.S. for the Markets
Sep 30, 2008  A Lesson in Public Choice
Sep 29, 2008  What Just Happened?
Sep 29, 2008  Shrinking the Financial Sector
Sep 28, 2008  Princeton and Harvard
Sep 28, 2008  Bothered in Boston
Sep 28, 2008  A Bailout Breakthrough
Sep 27, 2008  The View from Chicago
Sep 26, 2008  Morgan's Mortgage Outlook
Sep 26, 2008  Rocket Man Crosses Channel
Sep 26, 2008  WaMu, Morgan and the Bailout
Sep 25, 2008  A Future for Investment Banking
Sep 25, 2008  Finally, Somebody Understands What Went Wrong
Sep 25, 2008  The Fed's Balancing Act
Sep 24, 2008  Thinking Through the Bailout Plan
Sep 23, 2008  Not 1929—1907!
Sep 23, 2008  Capital Smackdown
Sep 22, 2008  Consider the Source
Sep 22, 2008  Fun's Over
Sep 22, 2008  What Will It Cost?
Sep 21, 2008  Understanding the Crisis
Sep 21, 2008  Ahead of the Curve
Sep 19, 2008  Notice Anything?
Sep 19, 2008  You Read It Here
Sep 18, 2008  Another Normal Accident
Sep 18, 2008  Is it 1929 Again?
Sep 18, 2008  Wharton's Diagnosis
Sep 17, 2008  Shiller's Prediction
Sep 17, 2008  Brokebuck Mountain
Sep 16, 2008  The Real Fed Action
Sep 16, 2008  Wall Street Cheers Fed
Sep 16, 2008  Wall Street Boos Fed
Sep 16, 2008  Fed on the Tightrope
Sep 16, 2008  Bring Back the RTC
Sep 16, 2008  Fed's Dilemma
Sep 15, 2008  The New Central Bank
Sep 15, 2008  Could 1,000 Banks Fail?
Sep 14, 2008  Massacre or Catharsis?
Sep 14, 2008  Another Bloody Wall St. Sunday
Sep 12, 2008  Political Predictions
Sep 12, 2008  Long Time Coming
Sep 11, 2008  The Words We Use
Sep 11, 2008  Farther Along
Sep 10, 2008  Exporting America
Sep 10, 2008  Thrift Crisis Redux
Sep 10, 2008  That Sucking Sound
Sep 10, 2008  China in the Long Run
Sep 09, 2008  Something New
Sep 09, 2008  Bailing Out
Sep 09, 2008  Russia Worries about Oil
Sep 07, 2008  Fannie and Freddie
Nov 20, 2007  U.S. Financials: Is the Bottom Here Yet?
  

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