Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Implementing US Gov't Wildlife Surveillance Project to Detect and Predict Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Implementing USAID Wildlife Surveillance Project to Detect and Predict Emerging Infectious Diseases USAID, November 3, 2009 [There is a coll...

America's Natural Gas Revolution - A 'shale gale' of unconventional and abundant U.S. gas is transforming the energy market

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America's Natural Gas Revolution . By DANIEL YERGIN AND ROBERT INESON A 'shale gale' of unconventional and abundant U.S. gas is ...
Monday, November 2, 2009

CIT's Bankruptcy Lesson - Treasury proves it can't identify systemic risk

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CIT's Bankruptcy Lesson . WSJ Editorial Treasury proves it can't identify systemic risk. The Wall Street Journal, page A20 The $2.3 ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Bank Regulation and the Resolution of Banking Crises course: PDFs of articles

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hi, I found useful to get the electronic version of the PDFs of these articles/texts in the Bank Regulation and the Resolution of Banking Cr...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Six Steps to Revitalize the Financial System

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Six Steps to Revitalize the Financial System . By SANFORD I. WEILL, former chairman and CEO of Citigroup, AND JUDAH S. KRAUSHAAR, managing p...
Friday, October 23, 2009

The Chamber of Commerce is only the latest target of the Chicago Gang in the White House

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The Chicago Way . By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The Chamber of Commerce is only the latest target of the Chicago Gang in the White House. WSJ, Oc...

Don't be fooled by the bond market. Banks are holding prices down because they can buy Treasurys with free money from the Fed

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Preventing the Next Financial Crisis . By ALLAN H. MELTZER Don't be fooled by the bond market. Banks are holding prices down because the...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Wage controls are politically easier than genuine reforms

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Our New Paymasters . WSJ Editorial Wage controls are politically easier than genuine reforms. The Wall Street Journal, page A20, Oct 23, 200...

Brown v. King - Politicians hate hearing their subsidies contributed to the crisis

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Brown v. King . WSJ Editorial Politicians hate hearing their subsidies contributed to the crisis. WSJ, Oct 22, 2009 Gordon Brown gave the Ba...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Industry views: The U.S. doubles down on solar subsidies while Europe retreats

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The U.S. doubles down on solar subsidies while Europe retreats IER, Oct 19, 2009 The cap and trade bills circulating in Congress (such as H....
Monday, October 19, 2009

Calomiris: We can solve the too-big-to-fail problem without losing the benefits of a global financial system

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In the World of Banks, Bigger Can Be Better . By CHARLES CALOMIRIS We can solve the too-big-to-fail problem without losing the benefits of a...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Almost two-thirds of all bad mortgages in our financial system were bought by government agencies or required by government regulations

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Barney Frank, Predatory Lender . By PETER J. WALLISON Almost two-thirds of all bad mortgages in our financial system were bought by governme...

Borrow from the Federal Reserve at zero and lend to Treasury for a profit. That's some racket

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The Banking System Is Still Broken . By ANN LEE Borrow from the Federal Reserve at zero and lend to Treasury for a profit. That's some r...

Al From: Democrats Don't Need the Public Option - Transformational reforms have always passed with bipartisan majorities

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Democrats Don't Need the Public Option . By AL FROM Transformational reforms have always passed with bipartisan majorities. WSJ, Oct 16,...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Trading book quantitative impact study by the Basel Committee: results

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Trading book quantitative impact study by the Basel Committee: results BIS, October 15, 2009 The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issu...