Governments should buy straight preferred stock in their banks | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
To give banks capital and liquidity while protecting taxpayers, governments of the G7 should buy straight preferred stock in their banks.

Central banks and governments facing the crisis | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
There is a single, integrated financial market and money without the necessary regulatory superstructure.

A Eurozone plan: Concerted action to re-start the inter bank market | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
Governments should guarantee their own banks' reimbursement of inter-bank loans, including cross-border loans to nations participating in the scheme.

Qualcuno Vi Ama Ancora, Furbetti
Si consuma l’ennesimo scandalo all’ombra del terremoto che sta mettendo in ginocchio la finanza internazionale. Il ricatto di Tremonti è capzioso, anti-italiano, di stampo putiniano: se non si ritira l’emendamento salva-manager, io me ne vado....

The price of transparency
By simplifying the information they transmitted to investors, banks managed to expand the market for the structured bonds that they issued. But this has also determined a catastrophic uncertainty that paralyzes markets and even affects policy choices.

Grandioso, le borse crollano!
Di tutto conosciamo il prezzo, di niente il valore(Friedrich Nietzsche)Non c’è niente da fare, siamo fatti così: quando ci fanno vedere una freccia che punta verso l’alto e sale da sinistra a destra, è più forte di noi, è questione di chimica:...