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What’Swap: Accounting for Financial Innovation

…bonds, then banks are not required to have so much idle capital to satisfy capital requirements. In this case the new accounting is reasonable. The risk in holding a long…

First Result of the Bailout: Less Free Capital

…firms that are using the TAF have no capital impediments through the end of the year. The crisis is over! So why is the government in the Commercial Paper business?…

PROFITS,CAPITAL SPENDING & PRICE CONTROLS

…means that corporations will spend these profits on new capital additions and this will sustain the economy. However, a major portion of these profits are going to the energy companies…

Recent Investment Growth in Historical Context

PGL notes that the argument made by supply-side tax cut advocates centers on the notion that cutting taxes on capital income will encourage risk-taking and thus increase capital formation –…