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Justin Baer and Ryan Tracy have an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal  commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Bear Stearns bai...

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I was interested to read in the Financial Times , "Iceland weighs plan to peg krona to another currency": Iceland�s finance mini...

WalBank Most Complete From Sopintar

Arnold Kling's Askblog  quotes Robert J. Mann Wal-Mart�s application to form a bank ignited controversy among disparate groups, rangin...

Fintech and Shadow Banks Most Complete From Sopintar

" Fintech, Regulatory Arbitrage, and the Rise of Shadow Banks " is an interesting new paper by  Greg Buchak, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz...

DB warns of US debt crisis. Most Complete From Sopintar

"A coming debt crisis in the US?" warns a Deutsche Bank report * by Quinn Brody and Torsten Slok. Source: DB This graph is g...

93 words, most of them wrong Most Complete From Sopintar

In the WSJ,  The 93 Words That Could Unlock $200 Billion in Bank Capital . This could be a great MBA final exam. Spot the errors: "Tu...

Basecoin Most Complete From Sopintar

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Capital Cause and Effect Most Complete From Sopintar

�scar Jord�, Bj�rn Richter, Moritz Schularick, and Alan Taylor wrote a provocative What has bank capital ever done for us?  at VoxEu, advert...