Volcker

James Montiers Reading List - World Beta (Hat tip Tracy Alloway) Santa's not so little helper: Today's the busiest online shopping day of the year. So are they ready at the biggest grotto this side of Lapland? | Mail Online (Great…

Below is another great article from John Mauldin via his weekly newsletter, this time featuring John Hussman who is talking double dip and depression. My last post shows I am very concerned about this scenario – which I see as likely - and…

The Obama Administration is captured. To understand why it has acted as it has, one doesn’t have to take the view that its efforts to save the banking industry were a deliberate attempt to line bankers’ pockets by transferring money from…

This comes via the NYTimes: To the Editor: Re “Volcker’s Voice, Often Heeded, Fails to Sell a Bank Strategy” (front page, Oct. 21): As another older banker and one who has experienced both the pre- and post-Glass-Steagall world, I…

Obama's approval rating back to 50 - POLITICO.com This is tied for the lowest yet. Calomiris: Maybe He Slept Through 2008 -- Seeking Alpha Debunkng certain economies of scale arguments for TBTF Volcker Has Obamas Ear, but Not on…

I am going to double up on links today as I have a lot that I have found with more sill to come tomorrow morning. Enjoy this lot.   Is the Swiss Health Care System a Good Model for US? - Gary Becker The Swiss health care system…

In light of recent comments made by both living former Federal Reserve Chairmen, I thought it appropriate to look back 22 years to the succession from Volcker to Greenspan.  What follows is a blurb from a New York Times article circa…

At issue here is the news that the Obama Administration dropped plans to force financial institutions to offer “plain vanilla” financial products that are simple enough for consumers to understand. My headline is editorial enough on this…

Bernstein: Best Value In Junky Names - CNBC.com It sounds like Bernstein is moving to the dark side. Obama Approval Stays Steady -- Political Wire "A new Pew Research survey finds President Obama's approval rate steady at 55%…

Bloomberg News is writing a very worthy series of retrospective articles on the financial panic of September 2008.  I profiled the first one on Monday.  The next in the series came out yesterday and it makes for riveting and…