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Monetary System
A plug, and one illusion less on Wall Street and in Investment Banking
It is the first of January - hangover day, football day (for those of us who follow the PL) and a general day of relaxation, although this time around the first workday of the year is already desperately close. For some, it is also a day…
Expect More De Facto Decriminalization of Elite Financial Fraud in 2011
The role of the criminal justice system with regard to financial fraud by elite bankers in 2011 is likely to reprise its role last decade — de facto decriminalization. The Galleon investigation of insider trading at hedge funds will take…
Cash Incentives for Whistleblowers of Control Fraud
by William K. Black Marty Robins' December 15, 2010, column "Blow the Whistle on Pointless Whistleblowing" in The Huffington Post opposed the SEC implementing the Dodd-Franks Act's provision that the SEC should develop a system…
Reserve Currency Roulette
by Annaly Capital Management Following up on our post from Friday, in which we illustrated the currency reserve and GDP market share of a number of different countries, a kind reader asked a question: “I wonder what percentage of the…
The European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Tonight I should be on the Lang & O’Leary Exchange, the CBC’s prime-time national business program, at 7PM ET. We are going to be discussing the European sovereign debt crisis for about 5-7 minutes. Canadian readers, tune in. For…
Wait for the next crisis for reform of the monetary system
There has been a lot of chatter of late about countries ditching the US dollar as the primary reserve currency and moving on to something else. Robert Zoellick mentioned gold as the alternative. Nicolas Sarkozy has been talking up special…
Too Big To Regulate
Systemically Dangerous Institutions – the U.S., Iceland, and Ireland by William K. Black This column was prompted by Thomas Hoenig's December 1, 2010 op ed in the New York Times (“Too Big to Succeed”) warning that we must end banks…
The Fed and Money Printing
The problem Bernanke is having goes to terminology and the difficulty of explaining a complex monetary system. In 2002 and again last year, Bernanke used 'money' to denote the reserves he is now creating to buy government Treasury…
The Deficit Commission and America’s Neo-feudal Economy
Commercial real estate has been regressively “freed” from debt – leaving the rental value to be pledged to banks as interest. This un-taxing of land rent has been a major factor inflating the real estate bubble on credit, much as…
Some Thoughts On The Fed and Bank Bailouts
Walter Bagehot wrote an eponymous financial book in the 19th century called Lombard Street, giving advice on finance and banking. The most important and quoted piece of advice Bagehot gave was to the Central Bank, in this case the Bank of…