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Regulation in Defense of Capitalism
The following post appeared on Wednesday at Rick Bookstaber’s new blog. Bookstaber is a market veteran who has long and storied history of achievement. He worked at Bridgewater Associates, ran the Quantitative Equity Fund at FrontPoint…
Obama’s finance reform speech fizzles; big banks set to reinflate bubble
Marshall Auerback here. I have been posting at an interesting new site called New Deal 2.0. You may have seen Edward linking out to articles on the site.
Edward saw an article I wrote there recently and asked me to post it here as well…
Ahead of G-20, China blames west and west blames China for meltdown
I just finished reading a Financial Times article about the likely coordinated global policy solutions to emerge from the upcoming G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh. It does not sound like there is a huge amount of consensus. Indeed, it…
Sheila Bair explains FDIC strategy to Bartiromo
Bair spoke to CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo about the Fed as a single regulator, her agency’s available capital, premiums for deposit insurance, FDIC seizures, private equity buyers and much more. The video is below and runs just under 11 minutes.…
Steve Keen and the spectre of terminal debt
Say I'm a politician and I am concerned about my re-election prospects in 2010. I have been a member of Congress for seven years now and have developed a good reputation as a reform-minded economic realist willing to listen to a…
Ron Paul on CNN America Morning
Ron Paul was on CNN this morning talking about unemployment, the credit crisis, the Federal Reserve and a lot more.
Murder-Suicide in Chimerica
In 2002, the global economy was weak and equity markets around the world were at multi-year lows following the greatest equity bubble and bust in world history. Many policy makers including Alan Greenspan, chairman of the U.S. Federal…
Delivering a brilliant healthcare speech
Tonight we saw a brilliant performance from Barack Obama. It was Obama at his best, using his command of the English language to inspire and connect on a grand stage as only few politicians can. For sceptics like myself, he surprised. For…
Now watch this drive
I have been arguing for some time that Barack Obama made a crucial tactical error in bailing out the big banks early in his presidency. His actions have left him vulnerable to populist resentment. In my view, this weakens his…
The socialist back-to-school speech
While I have come down hard on some aspects of Barack Obama’s legislative agenda, I have not been painting him with a Hitler moustache or accusing him of socialism, that great evil practised only in cheese-loving France. So I was…