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Banking crises

July 5, 2016 by rgrossman

Read my post on the Oxford Business Law Blog on “banking crises,” which presents a brief summary of my chapter by the same name in The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History, which I co-edited with Youssef Cassis and Catherine Schenk.

Categories Financial Crisis, financial regulation, Unsettled Account

Now available in the UK

June 3, 2016 by rgrossman

The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History, which I co-edited with Youssef Cassis and Catherine Schenk, has just been published in the UK by Oxford University Press.  It is available for purchase on Amazon.co.uk. As long as you are surfing Amazon, you might as well buy copies of WRONG and Unsettled Account too.

Categories Unsettled Account, WRONG Tags Amazon.co.uk, Catherine Schenk, Oxford University Press, Yousef Cassis

Drat you, Obama Administration!

January 14, 2013 by rgrossman

The following (now mildly edited) op-ed was slated to appear in a major US news outlet on January 15.  Unfortunately for me, but good for the country, an announcement by the Obama Administration rendered the op-ed obsolete.  The main point–that we should not resort to gimmicks in dealing with our serious fiscal issues–stands. Happy reading! … Read more

Categories Financial Crisis, government budget, subprime crisis, Unsettled Account Tags copper standard, debt ceiling, fiscal cliff, Gresham's Law, Gustavus II Adolphus, platinum, Sweden, trillion dollar coin

Doomed to repeat it?

December 31, 2011 by rgrossman

The Financial Times reported this week on a study by the Chartered Financial Analyst Society of the UK that argues that “financial amnesia” among institutional investors–particularly a failure to heed the lessons of past bubbles–has contributed to the global financial crisis. The answer, according to the Society’s report, is that the study of financial history … Read more

Categories Financial Crisis, Unsettled Account Tags Alan Greenspan, Chartered Financial Analyst Society of the UK, George W. Bush, Unsettled Account 1 Comment

Happy 145th Anniversary!

May 10, 2011 by rgrossman

I cannot let this day end without acknowledging the 145th anniversary of the failure of Overend, Gurney, and Company, which set off one of the 19th century’s more spectacular financial crises.  Writing the day after the failure, the Times of London argued that the firm could,”…rightly claim to be the greatest instrument of credit in … Read more

Categories Financial Crisis, subprime crisis, Unsettled Account Tags bailouts, Overend Gurney and Company, Subprime crisis

Historical perspective on the current crisis

November 22, 2010 by rgrossman

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dwxJayc4g[/youtube]

Categories Financial Crisis, Unsettled Account Tags bailouts, financial deregulation, financial lockdown, mergers, regulation, Unsettled Account 1 Comment
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