…have to be repaid at short notice when turbulence hits. But as a bank has more equity funding, it in theory becomes harder for it to earn a return on…

…that speaking loudly and brandishing a water pistol will be as effective. As we’ve written, the securities regulator made an impressive initial salvo at the private equity industry. The first…

…10-year Treasury bonds briefly fell below 2%. Financial markets in emerging markets have been particularly hard hit,. The Institute for International Finance estimates that $9 billion was withdrawn from equity…

…contrast, firms don’t own households. Households don’t issue equity shares — stock — and nobody, including firms, owns shares of, has ownership equity claims against, households. (Run don’t walk to…

…activities are financed out of own funds.” (link to FRED graph) It may appear as though corporations are deleveraging since total debt to equity is falling. However, their level of…

…positive effect on growth in total factor productivity (TFP). But when they looked at the composition of the actual flows and stocks, they found that while equity liabilities (foreign direct…

…have a significant impact on equity markets in other economies. But the IMF expects that financial spillovers will become more significant in the future, particularly if Chinese residents are allowed…

…investments and those with multiple types of investments (CDOs, hedge funds, private equity, partnerships of one kind or another, S Corporations, etc.) are complex is that new, detailed, specific language…

…equity recovering much more quickly than portfolio debt. Similarly, Peter McQuade and Martin Schmitz of the European Central Bank investigate the decline in capital flows between the pre-crisis period of…

…possible, in favor of social equity, and an economically “efficient” streamlined government, that would produce a meritocracy which would be accepted as fair by all. As it happens, I still…