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Bankruptcy Costs Affect America’s Debt Crisis
by Guest Author Jialan Wang, Voxeu In 2005, the US Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act raised the costs to households of filing for bankruptcy by 60%. While the law was designed to prevent abuse by wealthy debtors, this … Continue reading
Posted in Banking News, macroeconomics
Tagged bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention, Jailan Wang, Voxeu
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Contrarian Analysis for 2012. Part 1.
Could 2012 Surprise to the Upside? by Guest Author John Slater, Capital Matters In January we are trained to predict the likely course of the coming year and more often than not we get it wrong. This year virtually everyone … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, economic predictions, macroeconomics
Tagged Bank Credit, Bank Loans, bankruptcy, banks, Business Sale, Capital Matters, Commercial Loans, economic growth, Economic Stimulus, Federal Reserve, Globalization, inflation, John Slater, M&A, Mergers, QE3, quantitative easing
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Reforming Repo Rules
by Guest Author Mark Roe, Project Syndicate and Harvard Law School CAMBRIDGE – Sometimes, we just don’t learn. After the financial crisis, the United States enacted the Dodd-Frank Act to overhaul American financial regulation, with the aim of reducing the … Continue reading
Posted in Banking News, money
Tagged bankruptcy, Bear Sterns, Dodd-Frank, Harvard Law, Lehman, Mark Roe, MF Global, Project Syndicate, repo
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A.I.G. and Greece: Comparing Bankruptcies
by Elliott Morss Introduction In the midst of the Greek crisis, a report was issued last week by a watchdog government agency assessing how the Federal Reserve handled the A.I.G. crisis. Remember that one? At one point, the Feds had … Continue reading
Recovery by Deleveraging?
My conclusion? If deleveraging is needed, stimulatory monetary and fiscal policies should accelerate the process. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Federal Reserve, Government
Tagged bankruptcy, creditors, debtors, deleveraging, Elliott Morss, jobs, stimulus
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$13 Trillion Cover-up
In the case of bailing out Wall Street – and thereby the wealthiest 1% of Americans – while saying there is no money for Social Security, Medicare or long-term public social spending and infrastructure investment, the beneficiaries are obvious. So are the losers.
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Tagged bail-out, bankruptcy, banks, CDO, CDS, crashes, debt free money, derivatives, michael hudson, public investment, Social Security
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Weighing the Economic News: Borders’ Bankruptcy
Little was lost to the economy in the Borders’ bankruptcy. Customers in Border’s closed locations will simply buy somewhere else. Investors will have haircuts Continue reading
