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• Break up big banks

  
  Economist Online — Authority: 125
  To big to fail? Moral hazard? Bailout money flowing to Wall Street? The solution: break them up! Interview of Simon Johnson , former chief economist of IMF. (20 mins interview from Bloomberg) Related articles by Zemanta Simon Johnson: The Opportunity for Real Reform of the Financial System Has Already ...
  13 hours ago

• AMG Reports Record Taxable Bond Inflows Of $315 Billion Year To Date

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  According to AMG Data Services the abandonment of moral hazard concerns and the pursuit of risk in every form has resulted in an all time record inflow into taxable bond funds (IG and HY). The January through October total amount of inflows of $315 billion dwarfs the $60 billion for the comparable period in the prior ...
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• Moral hazard and the NFL

  
  This is the Green Room — Authority: 131
  The WSJ asks, “ Is It Time to Retire the Football Helmet? ” With the debate about football head injuries and CTE swirling, some are wondering if wearing helmets is actually exposing players to greater danger than if their heads were exposed. Though seemingly counter-intuitive, the argument follows well-established ...
  2 days ago

• Guest Post: Senator Dodd has Introduced a Sweeping Financial Reform Bill. Please Help Me Figure Out If Its Good or Bad, and What Its Missing

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  By George Washington of Washington’s Blog. A source on the Hill sent me the following summary of Senator Dodd’s proposed financial reform bill. My source notes: The summary leaves out Sections 1201-1204, which contain serious changes to the Federal Reserve bank structures, transparency elements, and ...
  4 days ago

• Guest Post: Senator Dodd has Introduced a Sweeping Financial Reform Bill. Please Help Me Figure Out If Its Good or Bad, and What Its Missing

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 747
  By George Washington of Washington’s Blog. A source on the Hill sent me the following summary of Senator Dodd’s proposed financial reform bill. My source notes: The summary leaves out Sections 1201-1204, which contain serious changes to the Federal Reserve bank structures, transparency elements, and ...
  4 days ago

• Guest Post: Senator Dodd has Introduced a Sweeping Financial Reform Bill. Please Help Me Figure Out If Its Good or Bad, and What Its Missing

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  By George Washington of Washington’s Blog. A source on the Hill sent me the following summary of Senator Dodd’s proposed financial reform bill. My source notes: The summary leaves out Sections 1201-1204, which contain serious changes to the Federal Reserve bank structures, transparency elements, and ...
  4 days ago

• Looter

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 670
  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, ...
  4 days ago

• The Market, Health Care, and Moral Hazard

  
  The New Ledger Features — Authority: 607
  Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Monday, November 9th edition of Coffee & Markets , a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace, now appearing as well on WashingtonTimes.com . Today’s podcast focuses on the surge in stock ...
  5 days ago

• Reading Between The Lines Of David Einhorns Attack On CDS

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  The $26.5 trillion (gross notional) CDS market is under siege. Or such is the latest news from the formerly pervasive (ab)user of CDS trading strategies, David Einhorn. In an op-ed in the FT , Einhorn states "I think that trying to make safer credit default swaps is like tryingto make safer asbestos,” he writes in ...
  1 week ago

• Einhorn: First, Let’s Kill All the Credit Default Swaps

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 747
  David Einhorn, who enjoys his considerable reputation for hard-fought battles against firms with shaky finances and dubious accounting (Alliance Capital and Lehman), has taken aim at a new and equally deserving target: credit default swaps. In an interesting bit of synchronicity, Einhorn’s comments in a letter to ...
  1 week ago

• Einhorn: First, Let’s Kill All the Credit Default Swaps

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  David Einhorn, who enjoys his considerable reputation for hard-fought battles against firms with shaky finances and dubious accounting (Alliance Capital and Lehman), has taken aim at a new and equally deserving target: credit default swaps. In an interesting bit of synchronicity, Einhorn’s comments in a letter to ...
  1 week ago

• Einhorn: First, Let’s Kill All the Credit Default Swaps

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  David Einhorn, who enjoys his considerable reputation for hard-fought battles against firms with shaky finances and dubious accounting (Alliance Capital and Lehman), has taken aim at a new and equally deserving target: credit default swaps. In an interesting bit of synchronicity, Einhorn’s comments in a letter to ...
  1 week ago

• Gambling, Washington-Style

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 567
  Had to pop some Tums before sitting down to write this post. Read it, and you’ll understand why. From MarketWatch this morning: At its high point, the federal government was guaranteeing or insuring $4.3 trillion in face value of financial assets, according to a report released Friday by the Congressional ...
  1 week ago

• How to Explain Moral Hazard

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  It took me many years to understand the phrase "moral hazard." Its a fundamental tenet of economics, usually used to explain that, since consumers are untrustworthy, businesses need to charge them more.* It was finally cleared up for me in the midst of a presentation last year about how its a "moral hazard" issue ...
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• TARP has no significant flaws, oversight panel finds

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 794
  Filed under: Company News , Economy , Investing , Bank of America , Citigroup You may find it hard to believe, but the Congressional Oversight Panel released its monthly report Friday and said that it had found no "significant flaws in Treasurys implementation" of TARP bailout programs. In fact, the panel ...
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• Phony GDP Growth – Peter Schiff

  
  David Westerfield > Weblog — Authority: 416
  
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• "The New Bubble Is In Stimulants....." Rosenberg

  
  immobilienblasen — Authority: 116
  I want to add that the bubble is also in outright & hidden bailouts.....Nothing really new but hours/days away from the next mega bailout ( FHA ) a sober summary how wasteful the resources are "squandered"...... Finde zudem das man der Überschrift von Rosenberg noch hinzufügen sollte das es eine Blase in ...
  1 week ago

• Restraining Health Costs

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 547
  Brian Fallow provides an excellent look at the urgent need for cost containment in health and the problems this involves. He points out that rising health costs is a far bigger potential problem than superannuation. It is also far more difficult to solve as a simple shift in age eligibility would sort out most ...
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• The Hypocrisy Of Chairman Ben

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Even as Fed representatives seem not only unaware of the anti-dollar bubble being created, but unaware of the bubble concept in general, courtesy of a perfectly efficient economic system in which all such things tend to self-adjust with "mild to moderate" adverse impacts, one would be remiss to blame Fed Chairman of ...
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• Trouble Ahead: Can the Right Seize the Banking Reform Issue in 2010?

  
  New Deal 2.0 — Authority: 137
  Eliot Spitzer explains how the White House defense of the status quo will give Republicans powerful ammunition in the 2010 elections. Few things are as potent in politics as calling for change at a moment of fundamental dissatisfaction with the status quo. Nobody should know this better than the current White ...
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