…remain nameless) made REPO deals with banks involving currency exchange — the bank gave Greece a great deal on the spot market and Greece gave the banks a great deal…

…The amount and complexity of IT work through the system is staggering. Data is the new currency of health care. Setting up the exchanges is a massive and messy task,…

…regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, for failing to take more aggressive enforcement measures against the bank after the OCC became aware of illicit activities. Please save…

G. has to leave the Eurozone. No not Greece Germany. Germany and a bunch of small Northern countries use the undervalued Northern Euro as their currency while we use the…

…between output and inflation. He noted the case of “flight from the currency” not yet named “hyperinflation” by Cagan rather anticipating the work of say Sargent. Now it is true…

…screwing things up for the rest of us.” Tongue in cheek there, of course, but it does seem to be German productivity in a single-currency regime that makes it impossible…

…pegging the value of currency to precious metals, altering the amount of coins in circulation, regulating banks etc. On page 49 Graeber asks a key question: “…what exactly was the…

…The lender’s May 10 announcement of the “self-inflicted” loss spurred reviews by the SEC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Bureau of Investigation….

…though, if we want to compare countries’ prosperity over decades, we need to talk about real buying power as opposed to nominal units of currency. Those were my choices. If…

…nice, but the belief that money affects inflation goes back a very long way. Lenin, for instance, talked about debauching the currency. Here’s Keynes, straight from the General Theory: The…