EconTalk

I did an EconTalk Podcast with Russ Roberts. The general subject is economic growth , the reasons it seems to be slipping away from us an...

A Better Choice

Roll up your shirtsleeves , financial economists. As reported by Elizabeth Dexheimer at Bloomberg , Rep. Jeb Hensarling is “interested in w...

The next crisis?

Where will the next crisis come from?  Every crisis starts with a pile of debt that can't be paid back , and shady accounting to hide th...

Chinese Tidbit

From the WSJ moneybeat blog : China’s central bank extended support on Friday to a group of unnamed but large banks...  the People’s Bank ...

Dodd-Frank Reform

Dodd-Frank reform seems to be back on the front burner , according to the latest Presidential executive order. At last. But let us hope it...

Capital Illogic

More Bank Capital Could Kill the Economy  write Tim Congdon and the usually sensible Steve Hanke in today's Wall Street Journal. I was...

Floating rates?

I was interested to read in the Financial Times , "Iceland weighs plan to peg krona to another currency": Iceland’s finance min...

Spikes

Jon Hartley ,  I posted last week , from " Deviations from Covered Interest Rate Parity " by Wenxin Du , Alexander Tepper , and A...

93 words most of them wrong

In the WSJ ,  The 93 Words That Could Unlock $200 Billion in Bank Capital . This could be a great MBA selesai exam. Spot the errors:  ...

WalBank

Arnold Kling's Askblog  quotes Robert J. Mann Wal-Mart’s application to form a bank ignited controversy among disparate groups , rangi...

Living Trusts for Banking

One of the core problems of financial reform is how to "resolve ," AKA bankrupt , a big bank -- how can equity holders be wiped ou...

The Treasury Portfolio

Charlie Plosser makes the case that the Federal Reserve should hold only Treasuries in its asset portfolio , at Hoover's "Defining ...

Pollyanna

In case you stay up at night worrying about the next financial crisis , the good folks at the Financial Stability Board  have produced a nic...