Banking's Past, Present, and Future
Watch a video of my book talk, which as presented as part of the Global Voices Series at International House at the University of Chicago on November 14. I was also a guest on Niala Boodhoo’s “Afternoon Shift program” at WBEZ Chicago. YOu can listed by clicking here.
See my latest Oxford University Press blog post.
Jeff Schechtman of KVON radio in Napa, California and I have a conversation about my book WRONG: Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn form Them, which was just released by Oxford University Press. Listen to it here.
See my op-ed with the above title in the Boston Globe.
See my op-ed with the above title in USA Today.
An excerpt from my book, WRONG: Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them (Oxford University Press), appeared today at Salon.com.
See my op-ed on reforming Libor in the Wall Street Journal (login required).
Barack Obama recently indicated that he is unlikely to reappoint Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve when his term expires next January. Understandably, the media is focused on who might succeed Bernanke to lead the US central bank. After all, the chairman of the Federal Reserve is often described as the second most … Read more
…except that the furloughs now in the news are of a different kind. In this case, federal employees will be put on unpaid leave of varying lengths because of the “sequester.” The long run-up to the sequester began during the summer of 2011, when Congress and the Administration failed to reach a budget deal. Their … Read more
The International Organization of Securities Commissioners (IOSCO) published a report this week calling for the London interbank offered rate (Libor) and other such benchmark interest rates to be tied more closely to actual transactions. Sadly, the proposal does not go far enough. I have written about Libor on a number of occasions (see here, here, … Read more