Fans of the Australian movie classic “The Castle” will remember the archetypal line “This one’s going straight to the Pool Room”, uttered by the ever-optimistic Darryl Kerrigan whenever he was given a gift. If you haven’t yet seen the movie, consider setting aside a couple of hours to watch it.
Debtwatch’s “Poolroom Gifts” come from coverage of the Global Financial Crisis. Some are gems–incisive bits of analysis that are an informative read. Others are … well, best characterised as spin, though they range from outright spin, to delusion derived from thinking like a neoclassical economist.
If you’d like to nominate an article or blog report that deserves an entry in The Pool Room, please send them to the gmail.com email address “gfcwrap” (written this way to avoid automated email gathering programs).
Each week there will be a “Poolroom” blog post that will be collect the week’s additions. The subsequent week, the trove will be archived and linked below.
As the collection grows, we will occasionally pull out some gift from The Pool Room to see how it has stood the test of time…
Smoking Guns. Articles from the deep past that record the factors that led to the GFC.
Media. Links to coverage of Debtwatch and/or my research in the media. Updated sporadically.
