Showing posts with label financial sector. Show all posts
Showing posts with label financial sector. Show all posts
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Monetary and Fiscal Policy and Structural Reform: Each Had a Role to Play after the Financial Crisis

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With fiscal policy hamstrung by public debt in both the E.U. and U.S., monetary policy was a major beneficiary of the financial crisis of...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Cases of Unethical Business: A Malignant Mentality of Mendacity

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The book, Cases of Unethical Business: A Malignant Mentality of Mendacity , presents a number of cases of unethical conduct at American com...
Friday, July 14, 2017

Essays on the Financial Crisis

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The financial crisis that peaked in the United States during the fall of 2008 is an excellent case study of what can go wrong with leadersh...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

ECB Poised to Approve Italian Bailout of Monte dei Paschi Bank: An Instance of Federal-State Collusion?

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Under the E.U.’s banking law enacted after the 2008 financial crisis, the state governments “are not supposed to inject fresh taxpayer mon...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Goldman Sachs’ Venezuelan Bonds: Power Behind the Throne

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Goldman Sachs paid about $865 million for $2.8 billion worth of bonds in May, 2017. This represents 31 cents on the dollar and translates i...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Is Undoing Financial Reform In Line with Free-Market Ideology?

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Legislating on the basis of an aversion to government intervention in financial markets can paradoxically result in more massive interventi...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

American Consumers Using Gas-Savings to Reduce Debt: Frugality or Responsibility?

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The steep drop in the price of oil in July 2015 was a concern for traders. Drillers and other energy companies comprise a significant porti...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Wall Street Banks in Commodities Businesses: An Inherently Unethical Conflict of Interest

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Writing to the bank’s board of directors, an executive at Goldman Sachs wrote that the bank’s commodities division would achieve higher val...