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A Question About Gaza

…magnified whenever Israel stops supplying electricity or ceases flows of fuel into the region. I contrast that with the situation in Israel after its independence. While Israel now receives a…

Hedge Funds Get FED Aid

…lightly regulated (except for the little rule that they can only take money in chunks of 100 million) and doing fine to uhm revise their views. For one thing, officially,…

synthetic bonds

…value of IBM’s bonds at the time. The buyer knows that Fred is good for the money, because it’s already there, tied up in Treasury bonds. He ends with teaser…

Shiela C. Bair Tries to Save the World–Again

…stops that cash flow, and bankruptcy procedures—at their best—impede those flows. This is the rational position. So what had Nocera written that caused Bair and Krimminger to call him?: I…

Eliot L. Spitzer, is back

…long-term effect on capital flows. Only if private actors have to bear the real risks they incur will the market function properly. We are now perilously close to nationalizing risk….

What was it about 1995 and the US Federal Reserve?

…to back assets that largely corresponded with “broad money” (M3) with cash reserves. The consequence was that banks could effectively create money without limitation. From early 1994 to late 1996,…

Why Doesn’t Europe Have Financial Crises ?

…in Continental Europe banks suck huge amounts of money out of checking and savings accounts for fees for everything and pay very low interest (my expertise is in being irritated…

Let’s Play a Game: Connect the Dots

…have a higher present value, despite the change being one of accounting, not business flows or the stock prices decline in the face of greater uncertainty, leading to an increase…