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Tiempo, 07 de Junio de 2015. Todos los derechos reservados. El economista griego señala que los especuladores deberían estar regulados de la misma manera que las entidades financieras, tanto en forma global como a nivel país. Apunta contra los efectos de la globalización en tanto ha sido el canal de difusión de una nueva ola de determinismo […]

The Economist, May 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. During a financial panic, said Walter Bagehot, a former editor of The Economist, a central bank should help the deserving and let the reckless go under. Bagehot reckoned that the monetary guardians should follow fourrules: lend freely, but only to solvent firms, against good collateral and at […]

Background Briefing, May 10, 2015. All Rights Reserved. From Athens, Levy Institute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou updates Ian Masters on the financial crisis as Greece teeters on the brink of default, with an $840 million payment to the IMF looming and fears that there is no credible plan to reach an agreement with the country’s […]

The Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2015. All Rights Reserved. The effort by financial regulators to ensure big banks and other financial institutions have adequate levels of capital is misguided since that will only help lessen the impact of a crisis, not prevent one. That’s the conclusion of Eric Tymoigne, an economist at Lewis & Clark College, in […]

Moyers & Company, April 18, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Last Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered this speech at a conference at the Levy Institute in Washington which lays out the banking reform she believes still needs to happen.  The Nation’s George Zornick called it “a blueprint for how Warren thinks Democrats should attack continued financial reform.” Read more: http://billmoyers.com/2015/04/18/elizabeth-warren-speech/

NewsMax, April 17, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Perhaps the highlight of the 24th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World Economies was a speech by Paul Tucker, senior fellow at both the Kennedy School and the Business School at Harvard, who served as deputy governor of the Bank of […]

The Washington Post, April 17, 2015. All Rights Reserved. It still isn’t winter in Westeros, at least not on television, although there is no shortage of reminders that it is coming. The seasons in George R.R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones” aren’t regular or celestial. Summer can last a few minutes or many years. At this […]