Further Reading

October 5, 2009 12:48 pm by FT

From the FT:

Michael Milken: Prosperity rests on human and social capital

Wolfgang Münchau: Diverging deficits could fracture the eurozone

John Authers: Crisis creates new sophistication in risk

Deven Sharma: Insight: Consistency in credit ratings

Elsewhere:

Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley, VOX EU: Capital market theory after the efficient market hypothesis

Simon Johnson, Peterson Institute: The G-20, the IMF, and Legitimacy

Paul Krugman, NYT: Obama’s Anzio

James Kwak, The Baseline Scenario: Fed Chest-Thumping for Beginners

Posted in Eurozone, Federal Reserve, Monetary policy, Recession |

Free us from imprudent risk-aversion

October 1, 2009 5:08 pm by FT

By Per Kurowski

There is no reason to believe the world would be better if financial regulators provided extra incentives to those who, perceived as having a lower default risk, are already favoured by lower interest rates, or punish further those who, perceived as more risky, are already punished by higher interest rates. In fact, the opposite is probably true.

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Posted in Crisis, Development, Economics, Regulation |

Another crash is all too possible

September 30, 2009 4:20 pm by FT

By Michael Pomerleano

I was in Chicago last week to participate in the 12th Annual International Banking Conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the World Bank. The answer to the question posed — have the rules of the global financial game really changed? — is a resounding no.

This was my first week back in the US after being away for three years, and the conference gave me an opportunity to gauge the state of the debate there. Compared to my two years at the Bank of International Settlements in Basel and my year at the Bank of Israel, the openness of the debate and the quality of the discussions in Chicago were refreshing. However, in the US — the epicentre of the crisis and the country that is supposed to lead the world toward reform and out of the crisis — I expected a far more forceful articulation of remedial measures.

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Posted in Banks, Crisis, Economics, Eurozone, Recession, Regulation |
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