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Bank risk models and regulation

…Now, by Avinash D. Persaud: Sir Alan Greenspan, and others have questioned why risk models, which are at the centre of financial supervision, failed to avoid or mitigate today’s financial…

GCC regional currency discussions

Information Clearinghouse caught this item about ME banks and soveriegn funds (the same) de-pegging from the dollar to help curb their inflation woes. Alan Greenspan recommends doing so I believe….

Citizen’s Guide to economic knowledge

…as he heads out to private think tank and Alan Greenspan’s new booklet on his wisdom. But that is my snark. It is supposed to explain what is up to…

Feeling Bearish

…new Federal Reserve chairman’s inflation-fighting resolve is being tested. Alan Greenspan certainly picked a good time to retire. Wessel neglected to mention the fuel that the US’s enormous current account…

Bartlett on Taxes

…spending cuts, despite the fervent wishes of Alan Greenspan. Therefore, the only realistic way left to reduce the budget deficit is to raise taxes. The sooner policy-makers face this reality,…

Market Valuations for Employee Stock Options

In his comments to this post, Jeffrey Miller points us to an excellent discussion from Roger Lowenstein: But as Alan Greenspan and Warren Buffett have observed, they aren’t “free” in…

Renminbi News

…next month. In a June meeting attended by Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman, John Snow, Treasury secretary, told the senators that he believed China would allow the value of the…

The Long-term Interest Rate Mystery

…‘conundrum’ about which Alan Greenspan spoke a few months ago has not resolved itself, after briefly appearing as though it might back in March. Instead, the mystery has deepened, in…

Malpass: Deficits Bad, Tax Cuts Good

David Malpass opens his NRO oped by noting Alan Greenspan’s “warnings on the deficit situation”, but then writes: In a good turn of events, however, the recently passed House and…