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Monetary System
End ‘Too Big to Fail’ in 2 Easy Steps
This is a post which originally appeared at New Deal 2.0 by Randall Wray. L. Randall Wray, Ph.D. is Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Research Director with the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability…
A New World Order
UPDATE: 19 MAR 2010: Given the debate on China and its currency peg, I thought this post from November 2008 would be relevant. It called for a new world order centered around a new monetary system. This idea has gained some currency as it…
A quick video primer on Repo 105
Here is a good video from Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explaining the mechanics of the now infamous Lehman Brothers 105 transactions. One or two tidbits, first. Even though Hirsch mentions Lehman undertook these transactions to…
This is the problem with China’s currency peg
In reading Scott Sumner’s take on the China currency peg dilemma, I see that both he and Paul Krugman hit on the fundamental problem in the debate: reserves. Everyone is talking about the peg as if relaxing the peg will be the magic bullet…
Bank Fraud 101: How to Rob A Bank
This is a post from John Lounsbury. Charles J. Antonucci Sr., the former president and chief executive of the Park Avenue Bank of New York, made a desperate move to try to save his bank with the infusion of TARP funds. TARP refers to the…
Wall Street vs. Main Street: Recessions and Depressions
This is a post from John Lounsbury which will cover ground on the official designation of recessions and his own designation of depressions about which he has written in the past. Previous articles in this series have discussed: The…
Links: 2010-03-16 – More on Lehman’s accounting fraud
Lehman Lehman Whistle-Blower's Fate: Fired – WSJ.com Blogs Beat the Press on the Lehman Brothers Scandal : CJR ABN Amro hielp Lehman bij manipulatie – Het Financieele Dagblad Dealbook Column – At Lehman, Watchdogs Saw It All –…
Japan – Defying Gravity?
Popular myth and, allegedly, the laws of aerodynamics have it that the bumblebee should not be able to take flight. Yet still, our good bumblebee refuses to be pulled down by such details and year after year it takes flight as if nothing…
Michael Lewis and Wall Street’s Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis is out with a new book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” which discusses how the big hitters on Wall Street destroyed $1.75 trillion of capital. His phrase ‘Doomsday Machine’ is reminiscent of former IMF chief…
Elizabeth Warren: GMAC did not pose a systemic risk
So why did we rescue this institution with a massive bailout? Elizabeth Warren, who chairs the Congressional Oversight panel of the TARP program, doesn't understand any more than taxpayers do. This is another example of the malinvestment…