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Bad Ideas Result in Bad Outcomes

Jeff Korzenik wrote 1 month ago: As regular readers know, I’ve been away from blogging for a bit while I’ve been in the m … more →

Tags: Market Insight, causes of the financial crisis, Housing Policy, Oswald hypothesis, Unemployment

Marketing by Pulling Corks 6 comments

thinkwinemarketing wrote 2 months ago: “No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing … more →

Tags: 401(k)s, AiG, Baltimore, Bern's Steak House, Boomers, Cakebread, Churchill Distributors, DTC, GI Partners

Fundamental Misconceptions in the Speculation Debate7 comments

Jeff Korzenik wrote 4 months ago: Today’s Wall Street Journal features a misguided editorial blasting the CFTC for considering c … more →

Tags: Market Insight, Regulatory concerns, CFTC, excessive speculation, overspeculation, position limits

Zombie Nation

Jeff Korzenik wrote 5 months ago: In a post a little over a month ago, “Watch the Zombie Bank Lifeline,” I suggested that  … more →

Tags: Regulatory concerns, Market Insight, Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, zombie banks

Derivatives are the weapon of choice...

Jeff Korzenik wrote 5 months ago: Washington is starting to get serious about the regulation of Credit Default Swaps.  Via the interne … more →

Tags: Regulatory concerns, overspeculation, Derivatives, Credit default swaps, Bookstaber, Senate Agriculture Committee

Notes from Congressman Frank's Speech

Jeff Korzenik wrote 6 months ago: Last night I had the pleasure of attending the Boston Bar Association’s annual Law Day Dinner … more →

Tags: Regulatory concerns, Market Insight, financial crisis, regulation, mortgage, Barney Frank, HR 1728

Farewell, TED... See you again?

Jeff Korzenik wrote 6 months ago: I’ve written a few times about the TED Spread (e.g.,  here), that historically reliable indica … more →

Tags: Market Insight, financial crisis, TED Spread, libor

Don't Count Out the Dollar

Jeff Korzenik wrote 6 months ago: There’s been a good amount of anxiety over the U.S. Dollar’s decline over the past few w … more →

Tags: Market Insight, Inflation, Dollar, devaluation

The Coming Derivatives Battle1 comment

Jeff Korzenik wrote 6 months ago: Bloomberg carried a story the other day citing  Brooksley Born in dicussing the way that major deriv … more →

Tags: Regulatory concerns, Bookstaber, Credit default swaps, overspeculation, Regulation & Economic Policy

Republicans Need to Find a Voice on Regulation2 comments

Jeff Korzenik wrote 6 months ago: I try very hard to avoid politicizing my blog, so I’m reluctant to bring up any political part … more →

Tags: Regulatory concerns, Regulation & Economic Policy

Watch The Zombie Bank Lifeline

Jeff Korzenik wrote 6 months ago: Much has been made of the bank “stress tests” which have focused on TCE (Tangible Common … more →

Tags: Market Insight, Regulatory concerns, tarp, Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, zombie banks

Regulatory Musings at Harvard

Jeff Korzenik wrote 7 months ago: I had the pleasure of attending a discussion as part of the Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy … more →

Tags: Market Insight, Regulatory concerns, overspeculation, Regulation & Economic Policy, Kroszner, Shiller, harvard

FERC Calls Out the Speculators1 comment

Jeff Korzenik wrote 7 months ago: An anonymous commenter on my previous post about overspeculation noted a recent report by the Federa … more →

Tags: Regulatory concerns, overspeculation, energy prices, FERC

Seeing A Forest of Overspeculation3 comments

Jeff Korzenik wrote 7 months ago: There’s been a number of recent columns seeking to define the financial upheaval that we … more →

Tags: Regulatory concerns, overspeculation, Regulation & Economic Policy, Credit default swaps

A Balanced View of Oil Prices, The Economy, and Speculation3 comments

Jeff Korzenik wrote 8 months ago: James Hamilton, the distinguished economist and author of the Econbrowser blog, is delivering a pape … more →

Tags: Regulatory concerns, overspeculation, Commodities, speculation, oil prices, energy prices, Credit default swaps

Rising Inflation Expectations2 comments

Jeff Korzenik wrote 8 months ago: I’ve written in the past about the misinterpretation of yield numbers on TIPS (Treasury Inflat … more →

Tags: Market Insight, Inflation, Tips

My Article on MarketWatch1 comment

Jeff Korzenik wrote 8 months ago: By way of ancestry, I’m genetically designed to be plowing some field in Eastern Europe.   Thi … more →

Tags: Regulatory concerns, Market Insight, Wall Street bonuses, Executive Compensation, AiG

Real Live Compensation Consequences

Jeff Korzenik wrote 8 months ago: I caught this post on Greg Mankiw’s terrific blog.  The following resignation letter from one … more →

Tags: Regulatory concerns, Wall Street bonuses, Executive Compensation, AiG

My Boston Globe Op-Ed on Wall Street Compensation

Jeff Korzenik wrote 8 months ago: If you have an interest in reading more about the Wall Street compensation issue, the Boston Globe p … more →

Tags: Regulatory concerns, Wall Street bonuses, AiG


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