Mr. Market’s Hissy Fit May Be Over….For Now
Puzzling out the markets have changed, and not changed, since the crisis.
Read more...Puzzling out the markets have changed, and not changed, since the crisis.
Read more...It’s getting harder to figure out what exactly is happening on the Brexit front, but even through the fog of negotiations, things don’t seem to be getting any better.
Read more...Novating UK derivatives contracts entered into by EU clearinghouse members is a ginormous mess, particularly in a Brexit crashout. But how serious a mess?
Read more...Derivatives remain an untamed systemic risk.
Read more...Follow the subsidies, and you will understand why we had the crisis and why not enough has been done to prevent a recurrence.
Read more...The chief architects of the exercise in looting otherwise known as the post-crisis rescues are back promoting more of the same.
Read more...Michael Hudson explains how we’re still in the crisis that started in 2007-2008.
Read more...Bill Black debunks a book that tries to relitigate the crisis by denying that Lehman was insolvent.
Read more...Brexit uglies are only getting uglier.
Read more...Treasury released an ideologically-driven proposal to change Dodd Frank’s resolution authority.
Read more...A detailed and well-argued explanation of how the growth in the role of financial markets has become destructive.
Read more...SEC staff letter raises detailed concerns about offering products based on bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to retail investors.
Read more...As bitcoin has become a mania, it is also becoming a risk to the real economy.
Read more...Beware of old CDO risk re-imaged as “nonlinear finance”.
Read more...The widespread use of English law in financial contracts poses yet another set of tricky post-Brexit issues.
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