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Blame Basel II

…bonds, because not all concern about risk is avoidance of capital requirements. This explains who held the “Super Senior Tranche.” US investment banks (not subject to Basel II) kept tranches…

A new whittle or two

…there are better things to do than keep a plant profitable for a fighter that is too expensive and has no threat to overcome. A $200 million super fighter for…

Matching Obsessions

…a perfectly good job of that already… to which the only possible response was: This is a super-secret world bank – but yes, their methods are somewhat similar. Wonder if…

Wasting More Money

…group of so-called super-regional banks are well positioned to take over their competitors, officials said, but have been reluctant to undertake or unable to complete deals. By offering capital at…

General Equilibrium theory and Finance

Robert Waldmann I wrote a post below on how economic theory as presented to the public and economic theory are very different. In particular, even given the standard super strong…

More on infant mortality: What’s with the USA

…world. This causes the coefficient to drop see table 3. How about hiv prevalence — a bit high in the USA for a super rich country. This causes a very…

No laboring in economics

…profession would just think about how the majority (like super duper majority) acquire their money, then maybe they would have not passed on this currently wide open, you can own…

Soc Sec XXXIV: Open Thread/Assignment Desk

…been mulling some ideas nothing super compelling comes to mind. So here is your shot to get the discussion going or perhaps suggest ways I could get the discussion going….

Milton Friedman Meets Robert Klitgaard

…that you don’t have to choose between him or her and the son of a super rich alumnus who will give tons of money if you admit his son but…