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Assignment: ECON 201 Macroeconomics, Western Colorado University
Quiz 4: Must be typed, and stapled if more than one page, you may work with one other student and turn in a single copy. Refer to Wray, Part 1, pp. 1-16.
1. What were the conclusions of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report? How does Wray critique the study?
2. As best as you can, explain Hyman Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis, the origins of "fragility" and how and why crises occur.
3. According to Wray, what systemic changes occurred as a result of the New Deal regime? How and why did this system begin to unravel by the 1970s?
4. According to Wray, what are the main factors that led to the rise of "Money Manager Capitalism"? What was the shift in power that occurred under this new regime?
5. Despite the mind-numbing complexity of Wray's foray into the alphabet soup of structured finance, his overall argument vis-à-vis the real estate bubble is straightforward. What is it?
6. What is financial layering? What does Wray argue with respect to debt levels and distribution leading into the Global Financial Crisis? What role does this play in the crisis?
Quiz 5: Must be typed, and stapled if more than one page, you may work with one other student and turn in a single copy. Refer to Wray, Part 2, pp. 16-27 (a couple of questions refer to the beginning of the essay as well).
1. As best as you can follow it (I will go over this a bit on Weds.) why does Wray argue that this was a "solvency crisis" rather than a "liquidity crisis"? What does this imply, according to Wray, about how the government should have handled the banking crisis?
2. Note three (there are many) criticisms levied by Wray regarding the handling of the financial bailout. According to Felkerson and Mathews, how big was the Federal Reserve's bailout of the financial sector? Ultimately, what is Wray's overall argument regarding the bailout (stated throughout but recapped on p. 26)?
3. One of Wray's colleagues at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, William Black, played an intricate role in the handling of the Savings and Loan Crisis. How does Wray contrast the handling of this crisis with the current one?
4. What is a NINJA loan?
5. According to Wray, why did the crisis occur (i.e., summarize his position)? Will it happen again?
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