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The Blog Post to End All Blog Posts: 1 of 2

…your two-year-old not to pull the cat’s tail; the only question is who ends up getting stitches.) Let’s assume that commercial banks, investment banks, and insurance companies are essentially fungible…

ABA TAx Section Pronouncement on Carried Interest

…recommendations about the proposed statute, which would apply to service partners in investment service partnerships to characterize income allocations as ordinary compensation income and defer losses, and impose self-employment tax…

Duffie on speculative trading

…prices be more accurate. 3) speculation–defined as “accurately forecasting an investment’s fundamental strength or weakness”–is not the same as manipulation–defined as “when investors ‘attack’ a financial market in order to…

Financial Regulation

investment banks include traders *and* salesmen. It’s also true that investment banks own account and the rest of the worlds holdings are uhm different. I suppose there is some way…

Mark Cuban Makes the Key Point

…the short-term, making the “capital” investment equivalent to a Demand Deposit account. If you want to reward capital investment, it needs to be truly treated as capital. Cuban notes: The…

There is a difference between then and now?

…today’s privatization of the: military, health care, schools, roads, utilities, environment. All failing, all in need of major capital investment. All representing investment made, value lost. Munsey’s Magazine 1903 reprint:…

Optimal Fiscal Policy with a Liquidity Trap and Gridlock

…analysis and I will consider investment (isn’t there in Krugman’s model). Being ad hoc, I will just assume investment is a shift variable times decreasing function of the real interest…