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...Rabobank, the Dutch bank, has shaken up its investment banking team by naming its global head of M&A, Donald Meltzer, as its chairman of corporate finance....
...“She’s a person who has been identified with the Fed for a long time and such people rarely bring big changes,” said Mr Meltzer....
...Josh Meltzer, of the Brookings Institution, said: “He knows how the system works, how to get a deal done. But he has been saddled by the positions that he has had to take as Brazil’s ambassador . . ....
...William Silber’s forthcoming biography of former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker will probably teach the median American reader more about macro-economics than Allan Meltzer’s multi-volume history...
...But some some free market economists, like Allan Meltzer, claim that Friedman would have strongly disapproved of QE2. Are they right? Mr Bernanke’s admiration for Milton Friedman goes a long way back....
...Third, to boost demand for housing, downpayments should get temporary tax relief (as suggested by Allan Meltzer on FT.com on November 11)....
...The 170 per cent increase in funding came as the bank and the Indian authorities patched up their differences following a dispute triggered by former president Paul Wolfowitz’s decision to suspend funding...
...“He got off to a rocky start,” says Allan Meltzer, a professor of economics at Princeton. “But he recovered, things worked out for him.”...
...How does the former Pentagon hawk and new World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz plan to effect real change in the developing world?...
...It is 6pm on a Saturday evening in August and after a week of back-to-back meetings, receptions and dinners, Paul Wolfowitz has at last found a chance to escape....
...His departure follows a visit to London last week by Paul Achleitner, Allianz's investment head, and a tense meeting with top bankers....
...It turns my stomach that Paul Wolfowitz is going to run the World Bank,?...
...Bernanke is a much more accomplished monetary economist but he has had much less political experience and involvement,” says Allan Meltzer, professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a historian of the...
...In October, the St Louis Fed hosted a conference on Paul Volcker. The difference was that he retired as Fed chief almost 18 years ago....
...Greenspan’s immediate response, saying he the Fed would pump money into the financial system to maintain liquidity, helped to put an end to worries about how the central bank would fare after the departure of Paul...
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