Dumb Regulation is Good Regulation How to Regulate the Banks
Should regulation be dumb? In one sense yes, in others, no. It really depends on how well the regulators understand the risks invol...

Useless Regulation: Dodd Bill Empowers Fed To Do Nothing
In what amounts to a dog and pony show without dogs and without ponies, Dodd Bill Empowers Regulators to Limit Size of Financial Firms....

Cost of owning a home up slightly in late 2009; will continue to rise: RBC
TORONTO - Home prices will continue to rise this spring as buyers scramble to close deals ahead of expected higher interest rates, new ...

Once Again, The Fed Is Letting the Economy Dictate Monetary Policy
This chart (click to enlarge) compares the rate of capacity utilization in manufacturing, mining and electric and gas utility industrie...

Treasury Bonds: Will They Keep Their Triple-A Rating?
Investors in U.S. Treasury bonds and other U.S. government securities have seldom questioned the top credit rating our government-guara...

Proprietary Trading: Finally, a Definition!
They ve done it! They ve solved one of the problems consistently cited by those warning of problems implementing the Volcker Rule, ...

Despite Recent Rise, Goldman Sachs Still Fetches Single Digit P/E
In recent weeks I have been accumulating shares of Goldman Sachs (GS) for my clients, more so now than any other time since I began man...

Worth Reading #5: Rajiv Sethi: An Ecological Perspective on Financial Market Reform (March 14, 2010)
Rajiv Sethi: Rajiv Sethi: An Ecological Perspective on Financial Market Reform: Note that if Lehman were the only firm engaged in such ...

Worth Reading #3: Worrying About the Housing Bubble: Hoisted from the Archives from July 2005 (March 15, 2010)
Worrying About the Housing Bubble: Dean Baker is more than worried about the housing bubble: CEPR Press Release (07/07/05): The ABC of...