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The hot-potato game over the presidency finally ended with the selection by Congress of Senator Eduardo Duhalde, the Peronists' candidate in the 1999 presidential election. Then came the long-expected but nonetheless seismic shift: At Duhalde's behest, Congress approved legislation on January 6, 2002, ending the convertibility system and fixing the
... See morePaul Blustein • And the Money Kept Rolling in (And Out): Wall Street, the Imf, And the Bankrupting of Argentina: Wall Street, the IMF and the Bankrupting of Argentina
For finance to consistently grow as a proportion of GDP, either it is simply upping its take — which might be reasonable within bounds, but raises questions of adequate competition in the sector and of possible regulatory capture — or it is making more and more MBS-like time bombs. It is spinning off flows of toxic financial exposure, of whose valu
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A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises (Haney Foundation Series)
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If you believe in deflation, U.S. Treasuries offer great value. Unsurprisingly, the biggest proponents of deflation are David Rosenberg and Lacy Hunt. Both work at firms that manage a lot of money in bond funds.
Jonathan Tepper • Endgame: The End of the Debt SuperCycle and How It Changes Everything
Financial Instability
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Each took place at a time when conflicting demands on finite government resources were high, and rentiers wielded reduced political power.6 Currently we’re beginning to see the financial oppression in developed countries. In the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe, governments have forced their social security funds to only buy government
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