Tag Archives: Regulations and regulators

One Reason Economists Don’t Get Any Love: They Refuse to Take Any Blame for the Great Crash

Economists still act as if their role in devising the policies that led to the crisis has no bearing on their credibility.

Satyajit Das: The Main Game Looms – The Problem of US Debt (Updated)

By Satyajit Das, derivatives expert and the author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives – Revised Edition (2006 and 2010)

In the first of three articles, the problems of US debt are outlined. The next two articles look at how America needs to control its public debt and how given political exigencies it may actually be dealt with.