Charles Calomiris offers a spiritual response to the financial crisis

Thanks to my former colleague, Doug McMillin, for the reference to a talk Charles Calomiris gave in March of last year. (The paper can be found here.) He identifies four causal factors to the crisis--factors that have been mentioned in this blog before. He also discusses some ways out. Finally, he looks at examples of people making decisions is crises--including biblical figures Ruth and Job, and historical figures such as Alexander Hamilton, JP Morgan, and Andrew Mellon. All in all, an interesting paper.