Peter Temin

Economic Historian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Economic historian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Major financial institutions are in big trouble. IndyMac of Pasadena, California has been taken over by the FDIC in the second-biggest bank failure in US history.

The Reality and Psychology of the Economic Crisis

Major financial institutions are in big trouble. IndyMac of Pasadena, California has been taken over by the FDIC in the second-biggest bank failure in US history.

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