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  Wall Street Watchdogs Should Prevent Crises, Not Build Buffers

  The Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2015. All Rights Reserved. The effort by financial regulators to ensure big banks and other financial institutions have adequate levels of capital is misguided since that will only help lessen the impact of a crisis, not prevent one. That’s the conclusion of Eric Tymoigne, an economist at Lewis & Clark College, in […]
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  Elizabeth Warren: “The Unfinished Business of Financial Reform”

  Moyers & Company, April 18, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Last Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered this speech at a conference at the Levy Institute in Washington which lays out the banking reform she believes still needs to happen.  The Nation’s George Zornick called it “a blueprint for how Warren thinks Democrats should attack continued financial reform.” Read more: http://billmoyers.com/2015/04/18/elizabeth-warren-speech/
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  Paul Tucker Warns of Global Financial Risk

  NewsMax, April 17, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Perhaps the highlight of the 24th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World Economies was a speech by Paul Tucker, senior fellow at both the Kennedy School and the Business School at Harvard, who served as deputy governor of the Bank of […]
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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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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  
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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  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. […]