Central Banks in the Age of Populism
Central banks are under more and more pressure to respond to public dissatisfaction with their stewardship. Is that such a bad thing?
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How Well Does Financial Regulation Work?
Sadly, reactive regulations don’t have a great track record.
Read more...Senate Expands ‘Lobbyist Bill’ to Deregulate Real Estate
Why the plan to weaken regulation of commercial real estate lending isn’t such a hot idea.
Read more...Waiting for the Chinese Bear Stearns
Why the Chinese shadow banking system is a possible source of systemic risk: a outstanding worry that has not gotten any better.
Read more...Meet the Democrats’ ‘Dirty Dozen’ Working to Gut Financial Reforms
Yet again, the Democrats sell out voters to moneyed backers, this time ones in the banking industry.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Hyping Amazon Banking: “Ridiculous, Ridiculous, Ridiculous”
The Wall Street Journal gets itself duped into publishing some particularly flaky, um, nebulous, um, aspirational Amazon banking ideas.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Slams Democrats for Helping Gut Financial Regulations
The financial services industry is about to get even more unnecessary, risk-feeding breaks, thanks in no small measure to Democrats.
Read more...More Frequent Central Bank Communication Worsens Financial and Macroeconomic Forecasts
Too much communication from central banks to the market may be a problem, creating a cacophony of policy voices.
Read more...FinTech and Banks
Why FinTech will not be as disruptive as its promoters would have you believe.
Read more...Bitcoin as Prosecution Futures: Coinbase Agrees to Turn Customer Records Over to Department of Justice for Possible Tax Evasion
Even in the US, which so far has been more lenient toward cryptocurrencies than China, the noose is tightening. Top Bitcoin exchange Coinbase has decided that trying to defy the law, in terms of not complying with a IRS summons requiring it to turn over information about customers who had engaged in more than $20,000 […]
Read more...Killing a Parasite — Canceling Student Debt, Part 1
How student debt is killing its host.
Read more...Trump SEC Fails to Pursue Aggressive Deregulatory Agenda (Albeit from Previous Pathetic Baseline)
WSJ reports Trump SEC has failed to pursue an aggressive deregulatory agenda; legislation necessary to disable securities framework further.
Read more...Bill Black: Once a Poster Child for Austerity, Latvia Becomes a Hotbed of Corruption
Bill Black discusses how in two years Latvia has morphed from poster child for austerity for the financial press to a nest of banking corruption.
Read more...“Life in the Sweatbox,” Personal Bankruptcy, and the Narrative of Utilitarian Calculus
The false narrative that made personal bankruptcy law so hellish
Read more...Treasury Proposes Dubious, Untested Chapter 14 Bankruptcies for Too Big to Fail Banks
Treasury released an ideologically-driven proposal to change Dodd Frank’s resolution authority.
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