About
Credit Writedowns is a news and opinion site dedicated to bringing a well-informed view of finance, economics, markets, and foreign policy into the mainstream consciousness.
Articles by our authors have featured in the Guardian Newspaper, Reuters, the Financial Times, Forbes, and the New York Times. A list of post authors can be found in the footer of this page.
The site is best known for its Credit Crisis Timeline, the most comprehensive data set of links to credit crisis-related events, and for the Dummy’s Guide to the U.S. Banking Crisis. For general questions for the authors and media inquiries, contact us here.
Our Main Authors:
![Claus Vistesen Claus Vistesen](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/claus-vistesen.png)
![Edward Harrison Edward Harrison](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/edward-harrison.png)
![Edward Hugh Edward Hugh](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/edward-hugh.png)
![Frederick Sheehan Frederick Sheehan](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/frederick-sheehan.jpg)
![John Lounsbury John Lounsbury](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/john-lounsbury.png)
![Marc Chandler Marc Chandler](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/marc-chandler.png)
![Marshall Auerback Marshall Auerback](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/marshall-auerback.png)
![Michael Hudson Michael Hudson](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/hudson.png)
![Michael Pettis Michael Pettis](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/pettis.jpg)
![Niels Jensen Niels Jensen](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/niels-jensen3.jpg)
![Randall Wray Randall Wray](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/l-randall-wray.jpg)
![William Black William Black](/congress111th/20101207023627im_/http://www.creditwritedowns.com/avatars/william-black.jpg)
Here are the topics we write on in no particular order.
- The global economy
- The credit crisis
- Finance
- Housing
- Markets
- Economics
- Economic history
- Government statistics
- Employment
- Politics
For a sampling of the types of articles you will find on our site, please visit our archives page.