Tag results for: financial crisis
Bank bosses are hiding $600 billion in unrealized losses to keep their mega bonuses. Here’s why portfolio securities should be marked to market
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed because it invested too much in long-term bonds that lost value when interest rates went up. That’s what our accounting rules encourage banks...
Opinion | Paul Singer, the Man Who Saw the Economic Crises Coming
He warned about subprime mortgages before 2008, Dodd-Frank in 2010, and inflation in 2020. After Silicon Valley Bank, what does he think is next?
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Opinion | We Aren’t Ready for a Financial Crisis
With $31 trillion in debt and a Fed balance sheet of $8.6 trillion, budgetary restraint is essential.
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Opinion | A New Framework for Crypto Regulation
Regulators can strengthen the U.S. as the world’s leading capital market and global reserve currency.
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Opinion | An Economics Nobel for and by Central Bankers
The committee that awards the Nobel Prize in economics announced Monday it has chosen three U.S. economists for the 2022 prize: former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke,...
Opinion | You’d Be Stupid Not to Evaluate Risk
As the crypto crash showed, guarantees of high returns are never really certain.
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