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King of California

…farming operations in the US and world. I won’t summarize the fascinating, well-written story, but here are some notes I took on the way: During a conflict over flows from…

The Great Trade Collapse…VoxEU

…best available evidence suggests that declines in global trade finance have not had a major impact on trade flows. Policy responses aimed at shoring up trade credit were early and…

The Fed called a mulligan

…though, it appears the Fed was so focused on preventing its credit easing program from destabilizing the money supply that it overlooked, or least underestimated, developments with real money demand…

Greenspan Protesteth Too Much

…“The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble” denies that the “easy money” policies of the Federal Reserve produced the U.S. housing bubble “that is at the core of today’s financial…

Suspend Mark-to-Market?

…a business decision. It is important to remember that we have recently faced a situation where the major money-center banks would have been (we didn’t have FASB 157) insolvent on…