In The Mortgage Crisis, a PowerPoint presentation, tipping points and enabling trends are identified which, in the author's opinion, played key roles leading to the housing boom and the subsequent mortgage crisis, which eventually spread to the entire financial system and the real economy. For...

Warren Buffett's major stock investments from 2008 through 2013 are reviewed, accompanied by depictions of some of the public positions he adopted, including the Buffett Rule, which calls for a minimum tax on high incomes. During the illiquidity and credit crisis of 2008-09, he invested about...