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,…
…(a possible $115 million reduction), Commodity Futures Trading Commission ($17 million), federal courts ($384 million at risk), Public Accounting Oversight Board ($18 million) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation ($23…
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…
…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…
Today’s New York Times article on rapid online repricing by holiday retailers depicts a retail world starting to approach the “flash-trading” status of financial markets: Amazon dropped its price on…
…he was suspended from trading on the New York Stock Exchange — and million dollar life-style, the New York Times reported. A unanimous federal jury convicted him of running an…