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Accrued Interest Blog Interpertation of Treasury Department Meeting with Bloggers
Across the Curve —
Here is the Accrued Interest angle on the gathering at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday.
My Visit to the US Treasury, Part 2
The Aleph Blog —
... I have a request and a question:
If you were invited, send me an e-mail.
Tell me why you decided not to come, if you would.
If present trends continue, I can tell you that bloggers are not pushovers for the US Treasury, but neither are they deaf or heartless. Since my last post, here are the responses to the gathering:
Curious Meeting at Treasury Department
A Few Observations of My Own
Financial Regulation: How would you have it work?
Bond Market Opening November 03 2009 ...
Wednesday links: one year later
Abnormal Returns —
... difference between a too-big-to-fail bank and a too-big-to-fail automaker: leverage.” (Felix Salmon)
Barry Ritholtz, “The belief in the validity of their models — like the theories they are based upon — is the Achilles heel of the profession.” (Big Picture)
Bloggers go to the Treasury. Still no plan to really deal with TBTF. (naked capitalism, Accrued Interest, Financial Armageddon, Aleph ...
Sympathy for the Treasury
interfluidity —
... expressed skepticism about financial regulatory reform. He's a free-markets guy who dislikes and distrusts intrusive regulatory regimes. He wants to see an end to "too-big-to-fail" by creating a credible resolution regime that would let private risks be borne privately. ...
My Visit to the US Treasury, Part 3
The Aleph Blog —
... meeting:
Friday in Vegas (Kid Dynamite):
“A Sit Down With Senior Treasury Officials – Part I”
Naked Capitalism:
“Curious Meeting at Treasury Department”
The Aleph Blog:
“My Visit to the US Treasury, Part 1″
“My Visit to the US Treasury, Part 2″
Across the Curve:
“Bond Market Open November 04 2009″
Accrued Interest:
“Financial Regulation: How Would You Have It Work?”
Michael Panzner ...
The wildly optimistic view of Treasury’s handling of the crisis
naked capitalism —
... they had to hide the ball, so to speak. The same philosophy is behind the Fed’s refusal to release more information to Bloomberg on the Fed’s emergency lending counterparties.
The overall gist of the strategy was that Treasury wanted to identify the weak, give them time to grow stronger, and, in so doing, allow the panic phase to subside so that corrective action could be taken in a more normal economic environment.
Wasn’t the plan wildly successful? Blogger Accrued Interest thinks so.
Now, before you give a knee-jerk response, please read the ...
