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Right to Water

…international and national treatments of water as property/commodity in China, India, Australia, South Africa Update 3: David Zetland updates us on Perceived and actual use of water in Canada, Current…

BCCI : memes and memories

…the world by assets.[1][2] BCCI came under the radar of regulatory bodies and intelligence agencies in the 1980s due to its perceived avoidance of falling under one regulatory banking authority….

Good Cop/Bad Cop or Tit for Tat ?

…grab their money. That would be finking when they haven’t finked. The lesson would be costly. The effects of the bill depend on whether it is perceived to be arbitrary…

Pro Say Contra DeLong

perceived improvement in technology is totally exactly what the models predict. I guess DeLong’s point is that the path of employment can’t be explained as the result of optimization of…

Schizofinance

…are restrained by regulations and have a perceived interest in reduced regulation. Therefore they see efficient markets fanatics as political allies and take advice from them on, say, incentive contracts….

S. Korean Econoblogger Jailed for Getting it Right

…government got even. In a move widely perceived by the public as a chilling echo of the 1970s, when a military dictatorship ruled South Korea, the government detained Park this…

A Country in a Hostile Region

…think of for this difference in the way Bosnia (or Singapore or Taiwan or Jordan) and Israel are perceived falls apart when I think about it. Every possible reason but…

How to Enron a CDS

…of mark to market risk, where one agent buys insurance against changes in the perceived probability of default on an instrument which hasn’t defaulted yet, but not against actual default….

What I really think about Finance

…current volume — the way it was in the 50s. Trading for reasons other than perceived asset misspricing would be very rare. There would be investors who save when young…