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Finance Reform

November 11, 2009

Well things are heating up. Senator Dodd released his much awaited – by people like me that is – proposed legislation for the reform of our broken down financial regulatory structure. The legislation weighs in at 1,136 pages of text, so I doubt whether anyone has read it yet unless they received a copy ahead […]

Economics / bailouts, banking, Citibank, Geithner, Goldman Sachs, Minsky, monetary policy, regulation /

Oh How They Are Mistaken!

November 10, 2009

In today’s Financial Times is an op-ed by Frederic Mishkin, a former Federal reserve Board governor advocating a benign attitude towards the current asset price run up that has all the worrying aspects of a bubble in the making. He urges us not to confuse what he sees as two kinds of bubble: the first, […]

Economics / banking, bankruptcy, commercial real estate, deficits, Federal Reserve Board, fiscal policy, inflation, interest rates, Reagan, real estate, regulation, unemployment /

Bits and Pieces

November 10, 2009

This is an abnormally quiet week for economic data. Just about the only news we will see is the usual weekly unemployment claims series on Thursday. So that gives me an opportunity to catch up on a number of bits and pieces. Inflation and Interest Rates The talk about the need for a tightening in […]