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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…

Discretion, Rules, and Regulations

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…

If too big then, what are they now?

…$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….

Measuring trade deficits and trade flows value

…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…