Vol. 22 No. 4, September 2008
Index
- Europeans not impressed.
- The bursting of China's political bubble.
- Obama's fiscal straitjacket?
- UK credit crisis: Buckingham Palace vows to fight on even against starvation.
- Disenfranchise the ratings agencies.
- Rift barely avoided.
- Do the credit rating agencies deserve to exist?
- Barely contained outrage: what the Europeans really think about America's regulatory blunders.
- Swallowing the national toad: Germany's top regulator says it's time the industrialized world swallow its pride and implement some aggressive regulatory reforms.
- Europe's second pillar: a European deposit insurance system, complementing monetary union, can help to contain the European race to the bottom in financial sector subsidies and regulatory arbitrage.
- The firefighters of the IMF: sitting idle while the neighborhood burns.
- Our moment in history: Obama's victory is a huge step forward. Now to action.
- The future of America' s financial dominance: consider four factors.
- Origins of the credit crisis: two overlooked structural mismatches.
- Dollars and diplomacy: when U.S. foreign policy bumps up against banking and finance.
- Subprime suits: the slow pace of litigation.
- Trade protection faceoff.
- The Rubin-Greenspan legacy: now Paulson's ongoing nightmare.
- Too much the investment banker: why U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson should approach the banking crisis more like a regulator.
- Wall Street's death: suicide? Murder? Accidental death? or a case of organ failure?
- The radical approach: why we're not yet out of the woods.
- Regulate hedge funds: it's impossible to separate charlatans from talented wizards.
- Japan's mistaken solutions: lessons on how not to respond to a financial crisis.
- Lessons from Japan's lost decade: why America's experience may be worse.
- Credit crisis, Asian style: a top Hong Kong analyst sets the stage.
- Debt levels.
- Market volatility.
- Real estate/mortgage markets.
- China.
- Emerging markets.
- Miscellaneous.