What-Debt? does not support a tax on financial institutions – taxes can be discussed, quantified and challenged in court: true to his authoritarian instincts, he seeks instead a transfer of power to regulators: Canada opposes …
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February 18, 2010
There are mutterings that maybe London isn’t as bad as all that, taxes and all: Heavy tax demands on London’s under-fire hedge fund industry are unlikely to spark an exodus of operators to rival financial …
February 17, 2010
Assiduous Readers will remember that I am rather curious about the social benefits of increasing bank capital. It is all very well to say that more capital is good, but in a world of limited …
February 16, 2010
The Kansas City Fed has published a working paper by Pier Asso, George Kahn and Robert Leeson titled The Taylor Rule and the Practice of Central Banking, a review of the manner in which policymakers’ …
Accrued Interest Removed from Blogroll
Accrued Interest is ceasing publication. It’s a shame. Although I never saw a copy of his performance – and although some of his analytical posts gave me pause – there was never any doubt that …
February 12, 2010
Looks like Toyota learned lessons from the securities industry: Former regulators hired by Toyota Motor Corp. helped end at least four U.S. investigations of unintended acceleration by company vehicles in the last decade, warding off …
February 11, 2010
The Fed is plotting its exit strategy: The Federal Reserve is in talks with money-market mutual funds on agreements to help drain as much as $1 trillion from the financial system as policy makers prepare …
February 10, 2010
PrefBlog’s influence over global capital markets is proved yet again as Temasek is setting up an in-house investment firm: Temasek Holdings Pte, Singapore’s state investment firm, is setting up a wholly owned multibillion dollar investment …
February 9, 2010
Lucas van Praag, World’s Greatest Corporate Spokesman, writes a rebuttal to the New York Times’ assertions in the Huffington Post. The most intruiging dispute is: NYT assertion: “In addition, according to two people with knowledge …
February 8, 2010
Alessandro Beber and Marco Pagano have summarized their recent paper on short-selling bans in a VoxEU article Short-selling bans in the crisis: A misguided policy: The evidence suggests that the knee-jerk reaction of most stock …