Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Principles for enhancing corporate governance issued by Basel Committee

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Principles for enhancing corporate governance issued by Basel Committee BIS, March 16, 2010   The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to...

The U.S. in the World Race for Clean Electric Generating Capacity

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The U.S. in the World Race for Clean Electric Generating Capacity IER, March 15, 2010 China has already made its choice.  China is spending ...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Ma’s Puzzling Midterm Malaise

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Ma’s Puzzling Midterm Malaise . By Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of East Asian Politics, Davidson College The Brookings Institution, Marc...

The notion of objective truth has been abandoned and the peer review process gives scholars ample opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies

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Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen . By PETER BERKOWITZ The notion of objective truth has been abandoned and the peer r...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The IMF's Inflation Illusion - Central banks would sacrifice hard-won credibility by aiming at a 4% annual cost-of-living target

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The IMF's Inflation Illusion . By AXEL A. WEBER AND PHILIPP HILDEBRAND Central banks would sacrifice hard-won credibility by aiming at ...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Why Financial Reform Is Stalled - Partisan gridlock is not the reason. The administration's plans are flawed, and they're encountering resistance from both sides of the aisle in Congress

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Why Financial Reform Is Stalled . BY PETER J. WALLISON Partisan gridlock is not the reason. The administration's plans are flawed, and ...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Europeans' worship of the state and corresponding suspicion of free markets doom their countries to economic stagnation

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Europe's Crisis of Ideas . By BRET STEPHENS Europeans' worship of the state and corresponding suspicion of free markets doom their ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

It would be better for our economy to enforce anti-manipulation laws, and require that speculators have enough capital to cover their risks, than to attempt to squash speculation

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In Defense of Financial Speculation . By DARRELL DUFFIE It is not the same thing as market manipulation. WSJ, Feb 24, 2010 George Soros, ...

My Gift to the Obama Presidency - Bush lawyers were protecting the executive's power to fight a vigorous war on terror

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My Gift to the Obama Presidency . By JOHN YOO Though the White House won't want to admit it, Bush lawyers were protecting the executive...

Financial Amplification Mechanisms and the Federal Reserve’s Supply of Liquidity during the Crisis

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Financial Amplification Mechanisms and the Federal Reserve’s Supply of Liquidity during the Crisis . By Asani Sarkar and Jeffrey Shrader Fe...

"The President's Proposal" on health-care

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ObamaCare at Ramming Speed . WSJ Editorial The White House shows it has no interest in compromise. WSJ, Tuesday, February 23, 2010 As of 3:...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Risk and Discipline in the Financial Markets: New resolution authority can help convince banks they're not too big to fail

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Risk and Discipline in the Financial Markets . By ARTHUR LEVITT New resolution authority can help convince banks they're not too big to...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Complex Loans Didn't Cause the Crisis - And the Consumer Financial Protection Agency wouldn't protect us from another one

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Complex Loans Didn't Cause the Crisis . By TODD ZYWICKI And Obama's Consumer Financial Protection Agency wouldn't protect us fr...