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Category Archives: Banks
Central Banking award
The Central Banking Journal annually awards central bankers (best governor, best central bank, and providers of services to central banks) for their performance. This year’s ceremony was held in London on March 13 and I was awarded Outstanding Contribution for … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, Economics
Tagged Afghanistan, Bosnia, central banks, IMF, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Moldova, National Bank of Kyrgyzstan, South Sudan, technical assistance
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A proposal for the Fed’s balance sheet
By Warren Coats[1] To save financial institutions from the collapse that threatened them after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the Federal Reserve purchased government securities and Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) sufficient to increase the size of its … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, Money
Tagged bank regulation, base money, broad money, Chicago Plan, excess reserves, Federal Reserve, monetary policy, required reserves
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Looking Back on Occupy Wall Street
The evening of September 16, 2008, I met Randy Kroszner for dinner at Et Voila in the Palisades just outside of Georgetown. He arrived late explaining that the Fed’s monthly monetary policy meeting had lasted longer than expected. Randy is … Continue reading
Posted in Banks
Tagged AIG, bank regulation, bank resolution, bankruptcy, Bear Stearns, Dodd-Frank, FDIC, Kroszner, Lehman Brothers, TARP, too big to fail, Wall Street
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My Political Platform for the Nation – 2017
For me, the ideal American government would deliver its important but limited functions efficiently and effectively and would raise the money to pay for these activities with efficient, minimally distorting (neutral), and fair taxes following a principle of maximum subsidiarity … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, Economics, Government, Money
Tagged currency board, debt, education, Fiscal Policy, Foreign policy, Health care, Minimum Guaranteed Income, monetary policy, safety net, SDR, tax reform, taxation, trade, tuition vouchers, VAT, WTO
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Cayman Financial Review, Q3 2015
Dear Friends, The Third Quarter issue of the Cayman Financial Review is now available on the web: http://www.compasscayman.com/cfr/. I am on the Editorial Board and have two articles in this issue that might interest you. The first discusses the continued … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Banks, Economics, Government, News and politics
Tagged Afghanistan, Cayman Financial Review, corruption, DAB, Kabul Bank
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Greece: What should its creditors do now?
Following Sunday’s NO vote in Greece, what ever that might have meant, it is tempting to tell Greece to get lost and be done with them. Aside from the unseemly lack of compassion for our suffering fellow man, the further … Continue reading
Crony capitalism and the Export Import Bank
An important and fundamental principle of the rule of law is that laws should have wide or universal applicability to everyone. This principle is generally violated when governments subsidize specific activities. These subsidize might take the form of tax breaks, … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, Economics, Government, News and politics
Tagged Boeing, Congress, corruption, cryony capitalism, Delta airlines, Ex-Im Bank
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The Cayman Financial Review
I have three articles in the latest issue of the quarterly Cayman Financial Review, on whose editorial board I serve. The first is the Letter from the Editorial Board, which explores my thoughts on restoring more market discipline of bank … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Banks, Economics, Money
Tagged Afganistan, banking supervision, Cayman Financial Review, Chicago Plan, Kabul Bank, Market discipline, Martin Wolf
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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – AIIB
Last evening CCTV, the China Central Television company, contacted me about an interview about the AIIB at 8:15 am the next morning (i.e., this morning). I have appeared on their Biz Asia show several times in the past. I agreed … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, Economics, News and politics
Tagged AIIB, Asian Development Bank, China, IMF, Investment Bank, US Congress, World Bank, WTO
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My Key stories of the world in 2014
Twenty fourteen was a busy year for the planet and in general a rather unhappy time. But believing as I do that when the pendulum swings too far in one direction (big brother) it swings back (personal freedom), I am … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, Economics, News and politics, War
Tagged Chase, China, CIA, crony capitalism, Cuba, Dimon, ECB, Eisenhower, EU, Feinstein, Greece, Holder, IMF, Thiessen, torture
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