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‘Game of Thrones’ and the darkness that awaits us
The Washington Post, April 17, 2015. All Rights Reserved. It still isn’t winter in Westeros, at least not on television, although there is no shortage of reminders that it is coming. The seasons in George R.R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones” aren’t regular or celestial. Summer can last a few minutes or many years. At this […] -
What Elizabeth Warren Has That Hillary Clinton Needs
The Fiscal Times, April 17, 2015. All Rights Reserved. “Rules are not the enemy of markets,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told me yesterday, on the heels of her major address on the unfinished business of financial reform at the Levy Institute’s Hyman Minsky Conference. “Rules promote innovation and competition. Rules prevent markets from blowing up. We learned that […] -
Free Lunch: Finance and the Rule of Law
Financial Times, April 17, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Elizabeth Warren may not be running for president but she does not relent in gunning for Wall Street. On Wednesday she gave a speech arguing powerfully that the task of taming finance is far from finished. It is an important speech that deserves to be widely read. The […] -
Fed’s Bullard, FDIC’s Hoenig and Sen. Warren Talk Financial Policy
NewsMax, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. On the first day of the Levy Institute’s two-day annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, held at the National Press Club in Washington, high-powered speakers held forth on the most prominent issues in the financial world that will affect the economy as Congress begins to try to legislate during […] -
Elizabeth Warren Just Laid Out All the Financial Reforms She Wants to Push Through
Business Insider Australia, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Elizabeth Warren made a speech at the Levy Institute’s Minsky Conference on Wednesday and laid out some major financial reforms she wants to push through. “The culture of cheating on Wall Street didn’t stop with the 2008 crash,” the populist Massachusetts Senator said. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/elizabeth-warren-new-reforms-2015-4 -
Warren: It’s Time to Break Up Too-Big-to-Fail Banks
MPA Magazine, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has called on lawmakers to break up too-big-to-fail by capping the size of the largest financial institutions and separating commercial and investment banking. She also proposed limiting emergency lending by the Federal Reserve to troubled institutions by the Federal Reserve. Speaking at the […] -
If Elizabeth Warren Were Running for President, This Would Be Her Agenda
The Nation, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. If Elizabeth Warren ran for president, a key part of her campaign—if not the centerpiece—would likely involve how to restructure the financial sector in a less dangerous and more productive way. Dodd-Frank was by many accounts a good start, but it’s clear the economy is still over-financialized […] -
ECB Monetary Policy to Be Accommodative in the Foreseeable Future—Constancio
Reuters, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. The European Central Bank’s monetary policy will be accommodative in the foreseeable future, the bank’s Vice President Vitor Constancio said on Thursday. “… Monetary policy needs to be accommodative, as I expect to be the case for the foreseeable future in the euro area,” Constancio told a seminar […] -
ECB Constancio: Eurozone Monetary Policy Needs to Stay Accommodative
The Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Vitor Constancio, vice president of the European Central Bank, said Thursday that economic recovery in Europe remains “gradual and moderate,” underscoring the need for loose monetary policy in the eurozone for the foreseeable future. “Monetary policy has to remain accommodative with low interest rates,” Mr. […] -
BlogElizabeth Warren on Structural vs Technocratic Financial Reform
From yesterday’s session of the 24th Annual Minsky Conference in Washington, D.C.: [iframe width=”427″ height=”255″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/HSpfGodTrtk?list=PLGGYihhM4K23u5h-2wBFx5bd3hX_8NjlX;start=41″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] -
The Senator Professor Drops By the Shebeen
Esquire, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. It’s been an interesting week for Senator Professor Elizabeth Warren. First, in Time Magazine’s annual 100 Groovy Folks list, she gets a rapturous shout-out from none other than Hillary Rodham Clinton, currently touring the silos of Iowa and the clam shacks of New Hampshire…. Read more: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34418/a-visit-from-senator-professor-warren/ -
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Not All Macro Models Failed to Predict the Crisis
Noah Smith has a post on the failure of macro theory to predict the crisis. He concedes that DSGE models did very badly on this score, but, he continues, “There are no other models out there that did forecast the crisis” and there is no better alternative. The word “better” is important here because some [...]