As I have previously noted, I am very pleased to see that we are finally having a debate on the cost of bank regulation. Less, more, whatever … but let’s get some idea of the …
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August 24, 2010
The Bank of Canada has released a discussion paper by Zhongfang He titled Evaluating the Effect of the Bank of Canada’s Conditional Commitment Policy: The author evaluates the effect of the Bank of Canada’s conditional …
August 23, 2010
I should have mentioned this earlier … but it just seemed so trivial! S&P has announced: the S&P/TSX North American Preferred Stock Index. The Index seeks to provide investors with the opportunity to achieve broad …
August 20, 2010
Was the Panic of 2007 bogus? I have previously highlighted doubts about the ABX index validity (as has, famously, Fabulous Fab) … Richard Stanton and Nancy Wallace supply another interesting paper, The Bear’s Lair: Indexed …
August 19, 2010
Econbrowser‘s James Hamilton sounds a gloomy note in his post Will the Fed Do More?: Certainly Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard is trying to communicate that the Fed needs to respond …
August 18, 2010
The Barclays settlement of allegations they did business with bad people and covered it up was criticized here yesterday. I am pleased to see it has hit a roadblock: A federal judge refused to endorse …
August 17, 2010
The Nanex explanation of the Flash Crash was discussed on August 9. It now appears that the mechanism is considered plausible by the CFTC: What this delay means is that, hypothetically, at the same real …
August 16, 2010
The FDIC is looking for comments: The FDIC and the other federal banking agencies are requesting comment on alternative standards of creditworthiness to replace the use of credit ratings in the risk-based capital requirements. The …
August 13, 2010
Nothing happened today. BOR-RING! It was a relatively quiet day in the Canadian preferred share market as well, where volume was below average. PerpetualDiscounts were about as flat as you can get, despite dominating the …
August 12, 2010
Jump on the long corporate express! Johnson & Johnson sold $1.1 billion of bonds at the lowest interest rates on record for 10-year and 30-year securities amid surging investor demand for the highest- rated corporate …