Is This Time Different? Examining Recent Emerging-Market Turbulence
Some emerging-market economies look wobbly. How likely are we to see more crises?
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Boeing, Crapification, and the Lion Air Crash
Boeing looks culpable for the Lion Air crash that killed 189 people.
Read more...Contagion in the European CoCos Market
the possibility that the coupon payment on the CoCos issued by a single bank might be suspended led to very adverse dynamics in the entire market for CoCos that cannot be totally explained by banks’ fundamentals.
Read more...Mr. Market’s Hissy Fit May Be Over….For Now
Puzzling out the markets have changed, and not changed, since the crisis.
Read more...Bankers’ Liability and Risk Taking
Why limited liability for banks is not such a hot idea.
Read more...The Bank of International Settlement’s Claudio Borio, Who Warned About the Crisis, Says the World Economy Is About to Get Very Sick
BIS chief economist Claudio Borio warns that central bankers have overdone the liquidity party, and investors are not being paid enough to take ris
Read more...Something Russia and EU Appear to Agree on – the Euro
The very rational case for Russia and the EU to trade oil in euros.
Read more...How the Crisis Caused a Pension Train Wreck
Why pension funds, and retirement savers generally, are big victims of the financial crisis.
Read more...Post Crisis Measures Have Failed to Tame Derivatives Risks
Derivatives remain an untamed systemic risk.
Read more...Why Central Banks Should Not Be Inflation Nutters
Central banks need to stop fighting the last war.
Read more...Jumping the Abyss: Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933-1940
An in-depth look at Marriner Eccles’ ideas and policies, and how well they have withstood the test of time.
Read more...Marcie Frost’s Poor Job as CalPERS CEO – Gutting the Audit Function
CalPERS is undermining the performance of its audit unit, a critical control function. The fact that CEO Marcie Frost either doesn’t care, or is not even on top of things enough to know, is yet another sign of her incompetence.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: Central Bankers as ‘Dealers of Last Resort’
In their 21st-century role as counterparty/dealer/insurer of last resort, central bankers must not simply use their balance sheets indiscriminately to provide a liquidity backstop during the downturns. They must embrace this counterparty role as an umpire, rather than an enabler.
Read more...What Should the EU Do About the Turkish Currency Crisis?
The Turkish lira has been under significant pressure in recent weeks. What is the EU’s exposure to possible crisis in Turkey and how should the EU react?
Read more...Bill Maher Leads Attack on Larry Wilkerson over Trump Meeting with Putin
Larry Wilkerson is roughed up by Bill Maher for the crime of saying taking steps to avert nuclear war with Russia is a good idea.
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