voices.washingtonpost.com - 6/12/2009
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Regulations that limit both economic and political power and discourage the buildup of excessive risk. Regulators willing to assertively enforce existing regulation, think outside the ideological box and take an active role in identifying areas where regulation is inadequate. Regulators with the ...
baselinescenario.com - 6/12/2009
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baselinescenario.com —
Tim Geithner will be testifying before both Senate
and House committees next Thursday on the administration’s proposal...
for financial regulation. In the meantime, there will be a lot of talk about financial regulation. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) and Washington Post ...
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The Financial Regulation Debate in One Post
economistsview.typepad.com - 6/15/2009
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economistsview.typepad.com —
This is something I did for the The
Hearing blog at the Washington Post: Making Financial Regulation...
Work: 50 More Years, by Mark Thoma : Banking regulation imposed in response to the Great Depression and the recurrent panics of the 1800s and ...
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"Making Financial Regulation Work"
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The Financial Regulation Debate in One Post
The Baseline Scenario —
... and here Cowen has another good point: “Many of the real regulatory problems are due to the preferences of Congressional committees and it is high time we admitted this. How about reforming them?”
Finally, over at The Hearing, we have started an occasional series on various aspects of financial regulatory reform. So far we’ve had Lawrence Baxter and Joel McPhee, David Zaring, Dan Immergluck, Brett McDonnell, and blogging star Mark Thoma. More to come next week.
By James Kwak
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links for 2009-06-13
Economist's View —
... Holes of Silence - Discover Magazine
Making Financial Regulation Work: 50 More Years - Mark Thoma
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"Making Financial Regulation Work"
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Further reading
FT Alphaville —
Principal content Further reading Posted by Gwen Robinson on Jun 15 08:02. Elsewhere on Monday, - Krugman stays the course. - So your bank account has been wiped out. - The crucifixion of Latvia. - A five-point guide to where we are now . - Bond bust fears are overblown - for now. - The success of development. - Experimenting with Recessionomics. - Making financial regulation work. - Betting on a spike in the Vix. - The Fed decision tree. - Are stocks cheap? - So what really caused ...
Blog Posts that Don't Compute
Economist's View —
<p>HTML clipboard</p> Someone name Dr. Manhattan at The Atlantic's Business Blog, in a post
comically and ineptly entitled "Sentences that Don't Compute" says:
Today's entry comes from Mark Thoma, who
writes in a guest-blog at the Washington Post:
The development of the shadow banking system is
important because the troubles we are seeing today are not the result of
problems in the traditional, regulated sector of the financial industry. The
problems began in the unregulated shadow banking ...
Shadow Banking for Beginners
The Baseline Scenario —
... wrote a guest post for The Hearing arguing that the “shadow banking system” was a significant contributor to the financial crisis and needed to be regulated. This prompted a series of posts either attacking or defending his position; for a rundown, see ...
The Shadow Knows
Economist's View —
... : Occasionally, a blog
post will flower into a wide-ranging debate in what is usually called the
"economics blogosphere." Last Friday's
guest post on regulation by Mark Thoma triggered just such a debate. I'll
quote the controversial passage at some length: ...
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