Fri 2008-08-08 00:00 EDT
Regulators Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Thu 2008-06-19 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Paulson Pushing Harder for Fed As Financial Stability Regulator
"one can argue that our financial distress is the result of the central bank's mission creep"; "a financial stability role conflicts with tough oversight"
Fed; Financial Stability Regulator; naked capitalism; Paulson Pushing Harder.
Sat 2008-05-24 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Commodities Spike: Vote of No Confidence in Central Bankers?
Steve Waldman; commodity price run-up due to loss of faith in monetrary authorities? large-scale repudiation of financial assets; "nd of a paradigm: large scale OTC markets, lightly regulated players and instruments, dollar as reserve currency, US as the most important global economic actors"
central bankers; Commodities Spike; Confidence; naked capitalism; voting.
Thu 2008-05-15 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Volcker Calls for Regulation, Questions Loyalties of GSEs
GSEs; naked capitalism; Questions Loyalties; Regulators; Volcker Calls.
Wed 2008-04-09 00:00 EDT
Sudden Debt: Free Markets vs. Cronyism
"Free markets...without tight regulation...rapidly deteriorate towards crony capitalism"; "excellence in market regulation leads to better and freer markets"
Tue 2008-04-01 00:00 EDT
SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - US Financial Crisis: Why the Paulson Plan is DOA - International
SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - US Financial Crisis: Why the Paulson Plan is DOA, by BusinessWeek chief economist Mike Mandel - International; "Paulson's plan only works in a fictional world where investment banks properly regulate themselves"
DOA; Druckversion; Financial Crisis; International; Paulson plans; Spiegel Online.
Mon 2008-03-31 00:00 EDT
Interfluidity :: Don't regulate, rationalize
"Financial firms can be regulated utilities that handle essential plumbing but bear little risk, or they can be aggressive risk-seekers looking to play every angle and milk every opportunity. They cannot be both."
Tue 2008-03-25 00:00 EDT
How ghosts vote on Bear Stearns - International Herald Tribune
How ghosts vote on Bear Stearns, by Steven M. Davidioff - International Herald Tribune; "A class of stakeholders in Bear Stearns with economic interests that differ from the shareholders' can use derivatives to ensure that their needs are met. In the process, shareholders are left holding the nearly empty bag, and regulators are left shaking their heads."
Fri 2008-03-21 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: "We may just have started to feel the pain"
Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff; pdf link; Reinhert: we run our bank regulation like a banana republic's
feeling; just; naked capitalism; pain; start.
Thu 2008-02-14 00:00 EST
Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex -- In These Times
Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex, by Susan J. Douglas -- In These Times; usurious practices of barely regulated banks
Wed 2007-08-29 00:00 EDT
Calls grow louder for international overview of U.S. markets - Print Version - International Herald Tribune
Calls grow louder for international overview of U.S. markets, by Heather Timmons and Katrin Bennhold (International Herald Tribune); Loan crisis blamed on lax regulators
calls grow louder; internal overview; International Herald Tribune; Print version; U.S. market.