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Dodd-Frank: Fossil of the Future?
Huffington Post Business, July 22, 2012. © 2012 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. "The Huffington Post” is a registered trademark of TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. All rights reserved. There’s a sad truth about the fate of financial regulation: It’s almost certain to be outmoded by the time it’s introduced. This was as true of Glass-Steagall in 1933 as it is […] -
BlogDodd-Frank: Fossil of the Future?
There’s a sad truth about the fate of financial regulation: It’s almost certain to be outmoded by the time it’s introduced. This was as true of Glass-Steagall in 1933 as it is of Dodd-Frank today. This month we begin the third year since the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform act passed, with the struggle over its [...] -
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Can We Afford the Usual?
With yesterday’s quarterly BLS data release on “usual weekly earnings” out, I have once again constructed some “alternative” measures of real wages, based on price indexes for food commodities at the wholesale level. The commodity-based indexes are depicted in the figure above with lines in various colors. Compared to the more typical measure of real, [...] -
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What to Say About the Low Yields?
Correlation is not causation, of course, but I’m beginning to suspect that there might be some operational relationship between the frequency with which you hear people complaining about the crippling burden of government debt, and a fall in the cost of government borrowing. Last week the Financial Times reported that investors had accepted “the lowest [...] -
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A Debt Jubilee via Eminent Domain?
Local government officials in San Bernardino county have apparently heard enough about how the overhang of mortgage debt is holding back the recovery, and they’re considering taking matters into their own hands. Reuters‘ Matthew Goldstein and Jennifer Ablan report on the background discussions leading up to a proposal that is being considered by officials in [...] -
Working Paper No. 728Toward an Understanding of Crises Episodes in Latin America
Conventional wisdom about the business cycle in Latin America assumes that monetary shocks cause deviations from the optimal path, and that the triggering factor in the cycle is excess credit and liquidity. Further, in this view the origin of the contraction is ultimately related to the excesses during the expansion. For that reason, it follows […] -
Working Paper No. 728
Η κατανόηση των κρίσεων στη Λατινική Αμερική
Η συμβατική σοφία σχετικά με τους επιχειρηματικούς κύκλους στη Λατινική Αμερική υποθέτει ότι οι νομισματικοί κλυδωνισμοί προκαλούν αποκλίσεις από τη βέλτιστη πορεία και ότι ο παράγοντας ενεργοποίησης του κύκλου είναι η υπερβολική πίστωση και η ρευστότητα. Περαιτέρω, με βάση αυτήν την άποψη, η προέλευση της οικονομικής συστολής σχετίζεται σε τελική ανάλυση με τις υπερβολές κατά […] -
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A Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky Synthesis
From the announcement of a new joint research project by Mariana Mazzucato and the Levy Institute’s Randall Wray (“Financing Innovation: an Application of a Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky Synthesis”): The purpose of this project is to integrate two research paradigms that have strong policy relevance in understanding the degree to which financial markets can be reformed in order [...] -
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The Original Sin
When the European Monetary Union was set up, member-states adopted what was essentially a foreign currency (the euro) but were left in charge of their own fiscal policy. Dimitri Papadimitriou and Randall Wray explain in a new Policy Note (“Euroland’s Original Sin“) why this basic structural defect was always bound to tear the eurozone apart. [...] -
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More on Austerity: Fiscal Threats to the Food Safety Net
As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has reported in several recent postings, cuts to SNAP—formerly known as the food stamp program—now being considered in Washington would impose severe hardship on millions of people who use SNAP benefits to buy groceries in retail stores. For example, the Center released a report a few [...] -
Policy Notes No. 8
Euroland’s Original Sin
From the very start, the European Monetary Union (EMU) was set up to fail. The host of problems we are now witnessing, from the solvency crises on the periphery to the bank runs in Spain, Greece, and Italy, were built into the very structure of the EMU and its banking system. Policymakers have admittedly responded […] -
Policy Notes No. 8
To προπατορικό αμάρτημα της Ευρωχώρας
Από την αρχή της ίδρυσής της, η ευρωπαϊκή νομισματική ένωση ήταν καταδικασμένη να αποτύχει. Τα προβλήματα που βλέπουμε τώρα, από τις κρίσεις φερεγγυότητας στην περιφέρεια έως τις επιδρομές στις τράπεζες στην Ισπανία, την Ελλάδα και την Ιταλία, πηγάζουν μέσα από την ίδια τη δομή της ευρωπαϊκής νομισματικής ένωσης και του τραπεζικού της συστήματος. Οι πολιτικοί […]