Bernanke goes all Obama; lays out plan to tighten-up. . . someday. Not saying he is wrong to keep rates low for now; just that making promises to reform someday is a very un-Fed-like, and very politician-like.
If we thought the Administration was serious about coordinating banking reform with Europe, then we’d be scared. Wait a [...]
Not surprisingly our old friend Andy Kessler gets it exactly right. Forget smarter regulators or smarter banks; that’ll never happen. Raise capital requirements, limiting the banks ability to create money and fund poor investments. More people read Andy than read us, by a couple orders of magnitude, so now all we have to do is [...]
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Andrew Redleaf and Richard Vigilante Call for Clarity, Full Disclosure and Raised Capital Requirements
Wall Street Journal today reports, “President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to propose new limits on the size and risk taken by the country’s biggest banks, marking the administration’s latest assault on Wall Street in what could mark a return, [...]
As we show in Panic, the fundamental theorem of Modern Portfolio Theory, which has been the cause of every major market crisis of the past 20 years, is that returns are a linear function of risk: more risk (volatility) equal higher returns. If the hedge fund movement has one uniting principle, it is rejecting this idea.