Sublime

Banking, done in the proper German fashion, is less a free enterprise than a utility. “Why should you pay twenty million to a thirty-two-year-old trader?” Müller asks himself. “He uses the office space, the IT, the business card with a first-class name on it. If I take the business card away from that guy he would probably sell hot dogs.” This man

The second contradiction is the trend toward monopoly.

Advanced economies have no divine right to grow at Great Moderation rates: Japan’s, which grew at 5 percent annually during the 1980s, has grown by barely one percent per year since then.43 This may be one reason why forecasters and policy makers were taken so much by surprise by the depth of the 2007 recession. Not only were they failing to accoun

EULER ACI is a carrier that covers factors’ accounts receivable. Founded in 1893, this

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to regulate margin accounts. The “Fed” regulates credit, and one form of credit is the margin account, in which the broker-dealer fronts the customer half the purchase price.

Irving Fisher, the great classical economist, tells us that the definition of debt deflation is when everyone in a market tries to reduce debt, which results in distress selling. This leads to a contraction of the money supply as bank loans are paid off. This in turn leads to a fall in the level of asset prices and a still greater fall in the net w

One day a little Dutch boy was walking home when he noticed a small leak in the dike that protected the people in the surrounding town. He started to stick his finger in the hole. But then he remembered the moral hazard lesson he had learned in school…. “The companies that built this dike did a terrible job,” the boy said. “They don’t deserve a bai