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Dead On Arrival: Financial Reform Fails | The Baseline Scenario
https://baselinescenario.com/2010/06/21/dead-on-arrival-financial-reform-fails
What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it. G-20 Rules; Time for Germany-Bashing. Paul Krugman For OMB →. Dead On Arrival: Financial Reform Fails. June 21, 2010. Go, for example, through the summary of comprehensive financial regulatory reform bills in President Obama’s letter to the G20 last week. Most indications are that they will seek tier one capital requirements in the range of 10-12 percent which is what Lehman had right before it failed. How would that help? More transparency...
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Rajiv Sethi: Information, Beliefs, and Trading
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Thoughts on economics, finance, crime and identity. Sunday, September 22, 2013. Information, Beliefs, and Trading. Even the most casual observer of financial markets cannot fail to be impressed by the speed with which prices respond to new information. Markets may overreact. At times but they seldom fail to react at all, and the time lag between the emergence of information and an adjustment in price is extremely short in the case of liquid securities such as common stock. Them to agree to disagree, and ...
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Health Insurance “Innovation” | The Baseline Scenario
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What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it. Secretary Geithner’s China Strategy: A Viewer’s Guide →. Health Insurance “Innovation”. July 27, 2009. The This American Life crew, once again proving that they can cover. Any topic they want. Anyone else in the media. Has a segment in this weekend’s episode. OK, that may be a bit of an exaggeration. I am really a huge fan, so I get carried away sometimes. Has sent over about 40,000 views to this post in the last few hours. The HuffPost...
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Come to think of it...: X-Pro 1 Tips and Tricks: The Basics
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Come to think of it. One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely. (Alan J. Perlis). Come to think of it. Thursday, March 29, 2012. X-Pro 1 Tips and Tricks: The Basics. How it's meant to be used. Here are the changes I've made to my settings—the rest are at factory defaults:. AEL/AFL button set to AF only, tap to lock, tap to release. Image quality RAW full-size JPEG fine. The Fuji...
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A Database of Folly — Crooked Timber
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A Database of Folly. July 3, 2012. The coalition is a confusing mix of these very different motivations (as Tom Slee observes), and the benefits of such a tactical alliance has come with the cost of some confusion. So let’s be clear about what open data can and cannot do. If the St. Louis Fed publishes reams of economic data, it can certainly make it easier for Mr. Yglesias to make his fantastic charts. If the MTA. Make government transparent and accountable. And that I just don’t see. But as an engaged ...
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The Perils of Studying Economics | The Baseline Scenario
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What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it. Investment Banks and the World Cup. Can the Buy Side Take on the Sell Side? The Perils of Studying Economics. June 8, 2010. At the New York Times recently wrote about a New York Fed study. Studying economics also affects your position on several public policy issues. Of seven issues, economics courses were significantly associated with the five following positions (Table 6):. Trade deficits are not so bad. Free marketers than professional e...
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Why Do Harvard Kids Head to Wall Street? | The Baseline Scenario
https://baselinescenario.com/2010/05/04/why-do-harvard-kids-head-to-wall-street
What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it. Fake Debate: The Senate Will Not Vote On Big Banks. Download the Blog – New and Improved! Why Do Harvard Kids Head to Wall Street? May 4, 2010. That’s the title of a post a couple weeks ago. By Ezra Klein, in which he interviewed a friend of his who went to Wall Street after Harvard. Having seen this phenomenon from a couple of different angles, I’d say the interview is right on. This is how Klein summarizes the central theme:. It’s j...
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An Early Stress Test For The Financial Stability Oversight Council | The Baseline Scenario
https://baselinescenario.com/2010/10/21/an-early-stress-test-for-the-financial-stability-oversight-council
What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it. Finance and the Housing Bubble. Food and Finance →. An Early Stress Test For The Financial Stability Oversight Council. October 21, 2010. At its head they are presumably silenced by recent events. (If you need to get up to speed on the basics of this issue, see this series of posts. By Mike Konczal.). But what is the cost in terms of additional likely losses to big banks? The likely size and nature of these are leading to exactly the kind o...
