26 Jan 2010

Apology to Wall Street

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Just how strong the Anti-Wall Street feeling is can be seen from this article on - of all places - Marketwatch . Is it not time that someo...
21 Jan 2010

Austria: Back to the Past

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Austria demonstrates that political control of banking institutions by no means assures that banks are managed in a responsible fashion. Nu...
17 Jan 2010

Michael Mayo Testimony - Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission January 2010

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Nobody has the time to read everything of relevance - but occasionally we like to the highlight little gems such as Michael Mayo's tes...
10 Jan 2010

Banking Reform - 2009 a year of lost chances

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News that the former CEO of AIG , Hank Greenberg , is trying to have the regulators and politicians look into the circumstances of the bailo...
10 Dec 2009

Productive vs Unproductive Lending

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Interesting comment by Bob Prechter about US Banks growing lending to consumers at the expense of lending to business.
9 Dec 2009

Legality of Windfall taxes doubtful

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We all wonder about the absurdity of some claims about discrimination, unfair treatment etc but one thing appears to be clear: the practice ...
21 Nov 2009

BayernLB: State-owned Banks no solution

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The sorry state of Bayern LB demonstrates that public ownership of banks is no solution to the problem posed by banking supervision. While...
20 Nov 2009

Democracy and Bank Bailouts

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The lack of democratic control is an all-pervasive defect of modern societies. More and more decisions are made by technocrats and a politic...
19 Nov 2009

London: hellbent on destruction

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Not enough that the town is still - despite the collapsing Pound Sterling - expensive, that public transport may not get better in a time sp...
18 Nov 2009

Patent for Investment Methods

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News that Research Affiliates has been granted a US patent for an indexing methodology that selects and weights securities using fundamenta...