- Suzy Khimm
- Reporter
Suzy Khimm covers the budget, economic policy, and financial regulatory reform. Before coming to Washington, she was based in Brazil and Southeast Asia, where she wrote for the Economist, Wall Street Journal Asia, Slate, and the Christian Science Monitor. Follow her on Twitter here, and email her here.
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- Lunch break: Monkeys + synthesizers
- The politics of the super-rich, in one chart
- Lots of debt but no degree: the catch-22 for college dropouts
- College dropouts have debt but no degree
- Could worker-owned co-ops help jumpstart the economy?
- Reconciliation
- How to succeed in academia without really trying
- Liberals to Pelosi: Stop helping the 2 percent!
- Lunch break: Life, in 873 stock photos
- Romney wants more federal intervention, not less, on school vouchers
- Lunch break: Slinky on a treadmill
- The Fear & Greed Index
- Reconciliation
- Dodd-Frank is hard to understand, and that’s why it has so many enemies
- Businesses more willing to use bribery and fraud, in one chart
- Republicans don’t like regulations, except for when they do
- Reconciliation
- How Thomas Edison, Mark Zuckerberg and Iron Man are holding back American innovation
- Reconciliation
- Is polarization making Congress dumber?
- Should we raise taxes on Wall Street?
- Reconciliation
- Study: Higher divorce rates make American women work harder
- The government spends billions on research. Should we have to pay $20,000 more to see the results?
- Reconciliation
- Jeff Fortenberry: One House Republican who’s dared to defy Grover Norquist
- Democrats talk about cutting entitlements. Republicans don’t talk about raising taxes.
- Why Dodd-Frank could be a harder sell than Obamacare
- Romney wants defense spending to be much, much higher. The public doesn’t.
- Does government knowledge mean government intrusion?
- Paul Volcker vs. JPMorgan’s London Whale
- Americans want to slash defense spending, but Washington isn’t listening
- Reconciliation
- No, anti-immigration activists don’t trust Mitt Romney
- Paul Ryan and the second coming of Compassionate Conservatism
- Meet the right’s deregulatory brain trust
- The psychological scars of unemployment
- Bill Kristol tries to win Jewish vote for Romney
- Reconciliation
- The main-street Republican values of ... Burning Man?
- Why crying ‘uncertainty’ is profitable for the business community
- Reconciliation
- How Congress’s top referees would fix Washington
- Why the Violence Against Women Act is a LGBT issue
- Occupy the regulatory system!
- The Democrats’ three-pronged plan for the ‘War on Women’
- The Occupy wonks, looking to make change from the inside
- The Gospel according to Paul Ryan
- Reconciliation
- Why ‘the sex life of the screwworm’ deserves taxpayer dollars
- Rape trees, rosaries and English-only: Why the Supreme Court won’t quell the immigration debate
- Reconciliation
- Occupy the shareholder meetings!
- How to understand the Euromess, in one parable
- Why celeb endorsements matter (Or, is George Clooney more like Jennifer Aniston or Peyton Manning?)
- How the Euromess could roll back Dodd-Frank
- Is the Fed fueling a bond bubble?
- Study: ‘Debt reduces growth, but only because high debt leads to panic and contractionary policies’
- Did the White House use ‘fuzzy math’ on the bailout? Not really.
- Poll: Most believe the rich aren’t taxed enough but their ranks are shrinking
- Reconciliation
- Who is Wall Street’s Voldemort, and why is he so feared?
- The Dodd-Frank cuts that don’t matter, and the ones that do
- Lunch break: The world’s ocean currents, visualized
- End the Fed: The video game
- Key economic events for the week of April 16
- Why do bureaucrats go wild?
- The bailout could turn a profit, but that’s not entirely a good thing
- When bureaucrats go wild
- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau comes out for . . . the banks?
- More workers are quitting their jobs, and that’s a good thing
- The Euromess is back! But it never really went away in the first place.
- The Euromess could hit the U.S. by way of Asia
- The upside of lower profits, in two charts
- Reading is pun-damental
- Barney Frank: Republicans want to ‘re-deregulate’ financial system
- Reconciliation
- Why do more people die when the economy gets better?
- Lunch break: Flashmob visits young boy’s DIY arcade
- Why the jobs numbers could be (a bit) better than they look
- Reconciliation
- Economy has grown the most when Democrats have been in power
- Goldman Sachs: Re-electing Obama and a GOP House would be the most fiscally conservative outcome
- How Wall Street is encouraging regulators to overreach
- Why Credit Suisse believes austerity could drag us down
- Did jobs numbers in March fall because of the warm winter?
- Feeling down about the jobs numbers? Look at this chart instead.
- Reconciliation
- Why a housing recovery could happen sooner than you think, in two charts
- Main Street banks break away from Wall Street with their own SuperPAC
- Mark Zandi is feeling even sunnier about jobs in 2012
- The government has just made home buying (slightly) more expensive
- By 2025, three of the world’s richest cities will be in China
- How much will foreclosures rise this year? A lot.
- An 11-year-old’s solution to the euro crisis
- ACLU: Local police departments tracking cellphones without warrants
- Could the U.S. economy become the world’s bright spot in 2012?
- Lunch break: A man, a plan, a bathtub
- Wall Street won’t be able to bet on the 2012 election
- Reconciliation
- No, the affordable housing push didn’t cause the subprime crisis
- Why ‘Too Big to Fail’ is a psychological construct
- Why America’s recovery is so much better than Britain’s
- Is Dodd-Frank being rolled back while no one is looking?
- Lunch break: Cat on boat plays with dolphins
- Sheila Bair is still not happy with Obama on housing
- Is Wall Street already shrinking?
- What does a housing recovery even look like?
- Lunch Break: The New Yorker’s very own cat video
- Big banks are winning on Volcker
- Could rising foreclosures hurt Obama in 2012?
- Lunch break: New York Public Library, the movie
- How Apple is propping up the stock market
- How the recession changed where the jobs are, in one chart
- How Dodd-Frank has already pushed Wall Street to change
- Banks’ preemptive strike against Dodd-Frank
- Reconciliation
- How an unusually warm winter boosted the economy
- How banks win big from Obama’s new refinancing program
- Why future recoveries will be even more painful
- Lunch break: 500 years of female portraits in Western art
- Housing prices will finally increase in ... 2013? 2014?
- Has more government intervention made U.S. banks stronger than Europe’s?
- Reconciliation
- Privatizing Fannie and Freddie: It’s not a matter of if, but when
- If buying a house is a such a good deal, why aren’t more people doing it?
- Could Paul Ryan’s cuts to the federal workforce cost taxpayers money?
- Paul Ryan wants to repeal rules meant to stop Too Big to Fail
- Another ex-Goldman employee decries the ‘commercial animals/jerks’ of Wall Street
- Why affordable housing is a myth, in one chart
- The rent is too darn high. Could Wall Street help?
- The argument that could upend Wall Street reform
- Reconciliation
- A modest proposal to regulate Wall Street’s hormones
- Lunch break: Keyboard Corgi
- How the housing bubble increased segregation
- Above all, investors fear a politically divided government
- Reconciliation
- Can Obama’s Wall Street reform address Greg Smith’s problem with Goldman?
- Foreclosures are rising in 21 states, but don’t panic yet
- Reconciliation
- Could the ‘Robin Hood’ tax pass in Europe?
- Occupy Romney!
- Americans think private equity is profiteering. But that hasn’t necessarily hurt Romney.
- Americans hate regulations in the abstract, but love them in the particular
- Do we need minority-owned banks for minority communities?
- The case for supporting FHFA chief DeMarco
- Liberal advocates want Obama to dump FHFA’s DeMarco
- A glimmer of hope for housing, in two graphs
- Key economic events for the week of March 12
- Do political dynasties make countries less democratic?
- Austerity is taking its toll on Greece
- Banks are using government loans to repay TARP
- Our polarized Congress, in one chart
- Government spending cuts have held back housing, too
- Economists overwhelmingly believe the bank bailout helped ordinary Americans
- Workers’ wages are finally rising
- Reconciliation
- Foreclosures will probably rise in 2012 — and that could be a good sign
- Fed economists: Yes, TARP may have increased moral hazard
- Baby boomers will be selling their homes, but will their children want to buy them?
- Early optimism for Obama’s latest mass refi push
- IBM’s Watson expands its domain to Wall Street
- Are we moving toward a home rentership society?
- Even senior citizens have student debt
- A bailout for real estate speculators
- Why are novelists wary of writing about Wall Street?
- Reconciliation
- Why are home sales falling through?
- Study: our emotions can help predict the future
- Lunch break: The joy of books
- Only 5% of underwater loans might get settlement’s principal reductions, report says
- The CFPB must seek advice, though it won’t have to take it
- Lunch break: World-record paper airplane throw
- America’s housing misery, in one map
- Is financial industry big, costly, and inefficient?
- Are creditworthy Americans having trouble getting mortgages?
- Reconciliation
- A housing boom in 2012? Not so fast.
- The woes of the 1 percent
- Can we fix housing by turning foreclosures into rentals?
- Reconciliation
- The only U.S. housing market to improve in 2011 was ...
- Lunch break: Beat-boxing in 1938
- Obama’s HARP 2.0 hasn’t achieved lift-off yet
- Is Occupy Wall Street hurting banks?
- Gordon Gekko wants you to report financial fraud
- Some federal regulators have turned against the Volcker Rule
- The paradox that’s holding back the recovery
- Measuring the performance of the financial ‘netherworld’
- Business is humming along for Fannie Mae
- Bank of America scales back its involvement in mortgage market
- Will private equity’s image rehab help Romney in Michigan?
- It’s not easy to talk to the Fed because lobbying is expensive
- Occupy the consumer credit bureaus!
- Should Greeks learn German to solve their debt crisis?
- Experts react to Obama’s corporate tax proposal
- The White House hits back at the Economist on regulations
- How the U.S. has decoupled from Europe, in one chart
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