…businesses around the globe. See, e.g., GM Financial to Benefit from Wall Street Upgrade, Sept 24, 2014. GMAC –renamed Ally Financial in its new incarnation–was bailed out by the federal…

by Joseph Joyce Capital Flows and Financial Crises The impact of capital flows on the incidence of financial crises has been recognized since the Asian crisis of 1997-98. Inflows before…

…where a patient dies, criminal penalties on a PE firm and related financial actors whose financial engineering activities drove the health care organization to financial ruin. Senator Warren’s Corporate Crimes…

…of risk mitigation strategies to provide financial protection and limits on financial risk for states and plans that may not be accounted for in the data used in this analysis….

…terms of personal, individual “saving” of “money.” (Usually, implicitly, people are thinking about an isolated, domestic, private, non-financial sector — U.S. households and non-financial businesses.) The financial system (including treasury…

…leads reported to the SEC relate to fraud and abuse in areas of systemic wrongdoing largely responsible for the financial meltdown: corporate disclosures and financial statements (18.2%); public offerings (15.5%);…

…in all financial assets. It seems to me that economists’ failure to make that conceptual distinction between money and financial assets makes it impossible to discuss the economics of a…

…markets. The financial sector is assumed. Different financial possibilities are not allowed. Cocrane’s argument against restrictions on new financial instruments is based on the assumption that markets are complete. Such…

…assets and financial assets (thing which have exchange value but cannot be, are not, consumed): land, art and collectibles, etc. “Financial capital” — all the financial assets out there, embodying…

…is not the right response to containing asset price bubbles or avoiding financial meltdown.” She does contradict herself a bit here by saying that while low interest rates risk financial…