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Fed chief warns banks on capitalBen Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, placed capital at the centre of his recipe for improving the financial system’s safety, putting banks on notice that they faced a possible capital surcharge or higher equity buffers ... |
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Bernanke warns on imbalance risksFed chairman Ben Bernanke warned that Asian export policies could lead to a re-emergence of trade and capital flows imbalances, which some believe helped fuel the US housing bubble ... |
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10,000As Devilstower took note here and Jed Lewison did here, various Republicans and the right-wing pundithuggery were all gleeful about the possibility of President Obama failing when the stock market was cruising around 6600 last March. But they've found themselves a bit tongue-tied now that it's hi... |
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Ed Schultz Clueless About Obama's Unease With 'Victory' in AfghanistanBetween his daily radio show and nightly television program on MSNBC, which boasts of itself as "the place for politics," Ed Schultz somehow managed to miss the news of President Obama's ambivalence about "victory" in Afghanistan. A caller to Schultz's radio show on Monday tol... |
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Welcome to ZombielandWelcome to Zombieland…where the most amazing things happen…Starring Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner and a cast of millions… The new movie – Zombieland – about a group of survivors in a world of zombies, was the biggest grossing film in America and Canada over the ... |
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'Too Big to Fail' Destoying the Effectiveness of the Fed -- By: Veronique de RugyThere is an interesting op-ed piece by Richard W. Fisher and Harvey Rosenblum in the Wall Street Journal this morning explaining how the Too Big To Fail (TBTF) policy is effectively destroying the Federal Reserve's ability to rescue the economy effectively. Like Christina Romer, Milton Friedman, ... |

