Hints and tips:
...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....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...Capital markets teams are modelling private placement products that can be used to prop up balance sheets during a prolonged market closure....
...But the complexity of a large financial system, combined with ‘local thinking’ of the sort which Shleifer et al have described, can result in assessments of risks which are, in aggregate, impossible given...
...Messrs Cable, Darling et al say they don’t care! They should. Moving key staff (100 or so) plus capital is relatively inexpensive....
...Because quasi-ownership through having funded the Tarp, PPIP et al wasn’t enough for the US taxpayer, who one must also assume is canny enough to make risk-reward assessments of the type so successfully...
...The Court has stayed all but the first-filed ERISA class action case (entitled Alvidres v. Countrywide Financial Corp., et al.)....
...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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