The Stockman’s Big Swinging Whip
…deposits and make commercial loans, but be banned from trading, underwriting and money management in all its forms. [Mosler] I happen to fully agree with narrow banking, as per my…
…deposits and make commercial loans, but be banned from trading, underwriting and money management in all its forms. [Mosler] I happen to fully agree with narrow banking, as per my…
…something The Folk Theorem of behavioral economics is not named after Professor Folk. It refers to the “obvious” fact that people are more cooperative when they interact over time—negotiating, trading,…
…from Fed Investor Protection, Law Enforcement Aside from federal civil and voting rights programs, investment law enforcement agencies and commissions on the chopping block include the Securities and Exchange Commission…
It is naïve to think banks utilising complex trading strategies and products, across global markets, can be supervised using simple rules (even if calibrated to penal settings). Indeed, an important…
…pays no taxes on the trading profits until it sells the fund shares and then the reinsurer is taxed at a lower capital gains tax. The tax savings are passed…
…4) Earned benefit programs. Lew is one of those Democrats who is more right of center than the party’s base. He still mentions the need for “entitlement” program changes as…
…convicted Raj Rajaratnam, one of the largest hedge fund leaders. Now, you’ll say that’s an insider trading case, but it’s clearly going after Wall Street.”* Oh, we get it. It’s…
…$5.60 a share, well above the results a year earlier and handily beating analysts’ expectations of $3.78 a share. The results were buoyed by strong trading and investment banking results….
…for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Trade Organization have patched together international databases that show not just the value of final goods trading hands between countries – the…
…say this is equivalent to neoliberalizing nature or privatizing the air in the case of climate and carbon trading. And what became even trickier was in Doha the idea called…