Excessive leverage and risk in the financial system, e.g., using customer funds to speculate, never ends well. Stock market crashes, bank and investment firm failures or economic recessions are all potential consequences. Following the failure of the United States to regulate over the counter (OTC) derivatives...
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Ron Hera
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Fri, Nov 16 2012
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Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: March 18 2012 We are back from Washington DC and realize that we could choose different titles for today’s letter. Let’s try a few… Title No.1: “The market proved us wrong” Indeed, we have been, and continue to be ...
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A View from the Trenches
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Martin Sibileau
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Sun, Mar 18 2012
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Filed under: Atlantic, KreditAnstalt, correlation, stocks, central banks, Greece, gold, Fed, financial repression, swaps, price system, 1931, ECB, Hayek, currency swaps