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• A Reflection on Insider Trading and Confidence in Markets

  
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  Here’s a thoughtful piece on the merits and demerits of criminalizing insider trading . Among the most common arguments made today in favor of the criminalization of insider trading (as opposed to letting corporations, in competition for capital, decide which information is and isn’t appropriate for insiders to ...
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• A Positive Program for Laissez-Faire?

  
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  by Mario Rizzo I am deeply impressed by Henry Kaufman’s opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal . I think he makes a very good case for  breaking up financial institutions deemed too-big-to-fail as opposed to the regulatory alternatives being contemplated. As much as it pains me to think about the ...
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• Marc Faber Says Bernanke Is Mugabes Hyperinflation Apprentice

  
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  Marc Faber Says Bernanke Is Mugabes Hyperinflation Apprentice Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009 Nov 11, 2009 - 03:58 AM By: Submissions Market Mornings Pat Bolland is joined by special guest host Marc Faber, editor and publisher, "The Gloom, Boom, & Doom Report" Marc Faber says the US Dollar is going to zero ...
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• No solutions

  
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  Thomas Sowell has said that economics helps you understand that there are no solutions, only tradeoffs. In that spirit, I want to recommend Arnold Kling’s study of the financial crisis, Not What They Had in Mind . My favorite quote from the essay is a variant on Sowell’s: The lesson is that financial regulation ...
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• John Perkins: World Financial Markets

  
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  Hoodwinked: Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and How to Remake Them I don’t really agree with Johns take on everything but he has been at ground zero of the nation killing business. There is really only one way to solve the worlds financial worries. Get rid of ...
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• Peak Oil: Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says IEA whistleblower

  
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  The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in ...
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• Fixed Deposit rates can increase

  
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  In the recent credit policy review of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) there were indications of rising interest rate which is good news for those who prefer to invest in fixed deposits . The central bank has given indications that in the coming days the rates can be tighten up and its impact can be seen in the first ...
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• China Financial Markets: Huang Yasheng on Government and Global Leadership

  
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  WSJs Jason Dean speaks to professor Huang Yasheng from the MIT Sloan School of Management about his recent article on how China needs a particular kind of leftist to provide more political balance in the Chinas government, as well as on the question of whether China is ready for a global leadership role.
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• Too complex to Fail

  
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  As if Too Big to Fail was not enough to digest, IMF warns of a new risk- Too Complex to Fail. In its new paper , IMF adds the real problem is too complex to fail. A snapshot of the paper findings is here . According to the paper, factors that might be considered indicators of a firm’s vulnerability, and its ...
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• Shiller, Thaler, Barberis, Laibson etc interviews/articles

  
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  Well all these are behavioral economics/finance professors. To have their interviews/articles in one publication on various aspects of behavioral economics is an absolute treat. Qn is a magazine taken out by Yale School of Management. Its first version was Q3 and the latest version is Q6 . Q6 is dedicated to ...
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• First Discussion Paper on Goods and Service Tax in India

  
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  The first discussion paper on India’s GST is here . I haven’t read it so far, so no comments. I came to know y’day that first discussion paper on India’s GST is to be released. So have been looking at all possible govt websites- Finance Ministry , Taxation websites , Prime Minister’s Office , Planning ...
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• Prepare for the worst

  
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  The futures so frightening it might not be that bad FELIX SALMON comments on a book on financial reform by Bob Pozen and concludes:What’s pretty obvious though is that most of Pozen’s recommendations will not be enacted. Which raises the obvious question: if we don’t do this, ...
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• Pain in the Fannie

  
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  by Chidem Kurdas As Fannie Mae goes for its next withdrawal from the $200 billion kitty the US Treasury graciously made available to this government-created and -sustained mortgage financer, it may be useful to look beyond the current housing slump and consider what it augers for the future. Having made yet another ...
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• Bubble fear

  
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  An irrationally exuberant pathology ONE of the reasons St. Louis Fed president Jim Bullard is more anxious than others to rein in Federal Reserve activity is a concern that leaving policy too loose for very long will lead to inflation of new asset bubbles. Should we be worried about ...
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• Looter

  
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  From an article on Goldman Sachs, from a conversation with the CEO, Lloyd Blankfein: He starts with a little humility. He understands that “people are pissed off, mad, and bent out of shape” at bankers’ actions. Goldman played its part in the meltdown that almost destroyed the global financial system. It, ...
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• China to Overlook Call for Yuan Gain, Researchers Say - Bloomberg

  
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  China to Overlook Call for Yuan Gain, Researchers Say Bloomberg President Barack Obama said in an interview with Reuters yesterday he will bring up currency issues when he visits Beijing next week. Chinas policy will be … ANALYSIS - A year on, Chinas stimulus postpones its problems Reuters ...
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• Our Civil Society needs a Civil Economy to match

  
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  David Pitt-Watson will be speaking at Beyond Crisis, a TUC / Guardian one-day conference on progressive responses to the financial crisis on 16 Nov in Central London. Register for free tickets at www.tuc.org.uk/beyondcrisis We are all understandably angry about banker’s bonuses and the seeming ...
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• Forex Signal system Script by nathancrowster

  
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  I need a Forex Signal system script PHP only The coder need to clone what is offer on this site: http://www.forexautomoney.com/ and members area and forex siganl tools The selected coders should know about this kind of script or this Forexautomoney.com site… (Budget: $1500-3000, Jobs: [...]
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• Ponzi schemes and astrologer

  
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  by Lynn Hayes, reposted from July 2008.I have always felt that if the Universe wanted us to be able to predict the future, It wouldnt have given us a life of mystery. The unfolding of the mystery and the ability...
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• Banking on the State Support and vice versa

  
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  Andrew Haldane once again. I have been covering his works in the crisis and all have been excellent reading ( here , here and here ). In his recent paper cum speech  co-written with  Piergiorgio Alessandri  he tells you how banks have changed over the years: Historically, the link between the state and ...
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