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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…

Bear Stearns reassured us again

Reuters reported this from CNBC. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bear Stearns Cos (BSC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Chief Executive Alan Schwartz on Wednesday dismissed recurring speculation that the investment bank faces…

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…

Dangerous surpluses

Alan Greenspan and Naomi Klein discuss recent economic history in this interview: I changed my mind in 2002 and 2003, largely because the whole notion of which fundamentally got me…

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…

Mary Cheney v. John Kerry

…tongue when a Republican Senate candidate, Alan Keyes, accused her of “selfish hedonism” for living a homosexual lifestyle. But in her book, Cheney reveals she refused to attend Bush’s 2004…

Abandoning Monetary Policy Altogether

…fact that rate hikes have often occurred amidst inflationary episodes, economist Alan Reynolds has made the point that the “Fed should remember that countries with sustained low inflation never have…