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...Then, the hidden leverage and maturity mismatch in pension funds’ and insurance companies’ portfolios — generally supposed to be long-only — could pose a policy challenge....
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...There is for sure a debate to be had about when the Federal Reserve et al should have pivoted their stance more forcefully to tackle inflationary pressures, and what they should and shouldn’t do now....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...You won’t be surprised to discover that Vittorio Colao reacted to the DT boss....
...Competitors that provide this type of finance — banks, life insurance companies and other institutional investors — say the taxpayer’s backing allows Fannie and Freddie to offer borrowers better terms than...
...The gap has also been widening, rising by 2.34 years for men and 2.91 years for women since 2001 (source: Chetty et al 2016) – with deaths by suicides, substance abuse, and drug overdoses rising for certain...
...What exactly do the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve Board say they want big banks to do?...
...Banks have to rely on central banks as lenders of last resort....
...They, along with Penn Square, were taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which “resolved” them in liquidation and sale mode....
...If you don’t believe us, well, we have charts… First, from the liquidity and flow tracking team of Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou et al at JP Morgan, comes evidence of the greatness of the rotation: Flows into...
...He describes a man who fretted over minutiae – the colour of the company cars, the cleanliness of the bank’s branches – while the group careened towards disaster....
...The case (now called FCC v. Fox Television Stations et al) was appealed to the US Supreme Court, where it was debated on Tuesday....
...I will not go back to the days when health insurance companies had unchecked power to cancel your policy, deny you coverage, or charge women differently from men....
...So are we missing something here, or is the Goldman approach tantamount to giving Volcker, Dodd et al the finger? That can’t be Goldman’s intention....
...Related links: SEC V. TREVOR G. COOK, PATRICK J. KILEY, ET AL, Case No. 09 CV 3333 – SEC Litigation release...
...Marx is singing in his grave there in London as the US government now controls the auto, mortgage, insurance, banking, et al industries and he has not fired a shot....
...“I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...I mean, to be fair, the status quo is working for the insurance industry, but it’s not working for the American people. It’s not working for our federal budget. It needs to change....
...A shareholder derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery: Seymour v. Samuels, et al....
...In the end, these companies, even with our assistance, have to discover the secrets of their own success or they will not be successful. They’ve got to run their own business....
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