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online.wsj.com - 10 hours ago
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MARK SPITZNAGEL Ludwig von Mises was snubbed by
economists world-wide as he warned of a credit crisis
in the 1920s. We ignore the great Austrian at our peril today. Mises's ideas on business cycles were spelled out in his 1912 tome "Theorie des Geldes ...
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Mark Spitznagel: The Man Who Predicted the Depression
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cafehayek.com - 7 hours ago
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Here’s a letter that I sent this morning
to the Wall Street Journal: Kudos to Mark Spitznagel
for drawing attention to the important but neglected work of the late Ludwig von Mises (” The Man Who Predicted the Depression ,” Nov. ...
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Keynes on Mises — and on Himself
2000wave.com - 12 hours ago
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2000wave.com —
I first wrote about the Muddle Through Economy
in 2002, and the term has more or less
become a theme we have returned to from time to time. In 2007 I wrote that we would indeed get back to a Muddle Through Economy after the end of the coming ...
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Thoughts from the Frontline
huffingtonpost.com - 26 hours ago
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Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking
industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power
grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by stripping the independence of the board that sets financial accounting standards. ...
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Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The ...
telegraph.co.uk - 14 hours ago
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telegraph.co.uk —
The banking sector must be overhauled as profoundly
as in the wake of the Great Depression or
financiers will 'game the state' over and over again.
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Bank of England says financiers are fuelling an economic ...
alephblog.com - 3 hours ago
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One other blogger took his nameplate with him
— I’m not sure who; the rest left theirs.
But this is what was in front of each one of us as we sat down to discuss matters at the US Treasury. Treasury officials had similar nameplates. It dictated where we would sit as well. ...
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My Visit to the US Treasury, Part 5
nakedcapitalism.com - 6 hours ago
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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 ...
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Einhorn: First, Let’s Kill All the Credit Default Swaps
informationarbitrage.com - 6 hours ago
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David Einhorn is without question an exceptionally bright
man and a very astute investor. However, the latest
message being delivered from his bully pulpit, proposing a ban on credit default swaps (CDS), is misguided at best and dangerous at worst. ...
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Deal With It, Mr. Einhorn
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com - 5 hours ago
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Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont has introduced legislation
that would force the Treasury Department to break up
all financial institutions whose failure could cause a major disruption to the nation's financial system.
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Senator Seeks to Break Up Banks 'Too Big to Fail'
baselinescenario.com - 12 hours ago
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The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors
are meeting today in St. Andrews , talking about
the data they will need to look at in order to monitor each other’s economic performance and sustain growth (seriously). The underlying idea is that if you talk long enough about the ...
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Warren Buffett And The G20
youtube.com - 46 hours ago
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Song Parody...Should I stay with buy and hold
strategy preached by most brokerage and financial firms.
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should i stay with buy and hold (video)
businessweek.com - 34 hours ago
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Unrealistic assumptions, layers of investors, sky-high prices, and
possible fraud will make it hard to clean up
the mess in commercial real estate
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Why This Real Estate Bust Is Different
macroblog.typepad.com - 16 hours ago
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On October 30, the Center for Financial Innovation
and Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
held a conference on Regulating Systemic Risk . The presentations mostly focused on the recent financial crisis and possible regulatory responses ...
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What is systemic risk, anyway?
politico.com - 29 hours ago
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politico.com —
Center for Responsive Politics releases new report describing
the wealth of members of Congress.
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Report: 237 millionaires in Congress
dealbreaker.com - 44 hours ago
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Having just written a book on the subject
( When Mooks Fail , currently #15 on the
Amazon.com best-seller list ), Charlie G. continues his intrepid reporting on the utter shamelessness of Wall Street. Now, Tom Maheras , the former Citigroup president, ...
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The Man Who Sunk Citigroup Launches Hubris Fund
vanityfair.com - 2 days ago
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Throughout his dazzling but controversial career—top World Bank
economist, Treasury secretary, Harvard University president, and now head
of the White House National Economic Council—Larry Summers has been his own worst enemy. As friends, colleagues, ...
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Vanityfair: Endless Summers
