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  • How Do You Define “Blatant”?

    Igor Sechin says that any decision to take TNK-BP’s license for Kovytka would be “fair.” “‘There’s no talk of any blatant expropriation. I think we will find a solution to this issue,’” Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told reporters.” Yes, I am...
    Posted to Economics on 03-12-2010
    Filed under: Politics, Economics, Financial crisis, Russia
  • Gary Gensler’s Plan to Take Over the World

    Gary “Jeremiah” Gensler continued his assault against CDS, this time from deep in enemy territory, at Markit’s Outlook for OTC Derivatives Markets Conference. If it were up to Gensler, the OTC Outlook would be terminal. In the speech, Gensler repeats several of his constant themes,...
    Posted to Economics on 03-11-2010
    Filed under: Politics, Economics, Commodities, Derivatives
  • Cutting Off One’s Nose to Spite One’s Face

    Greece desperately needs people to buy its bonds. So what does it do? It excludes potential buyers, specifically hedge funds: Greece ordered its bankers to exclude hedge funds from a bond offering this week in an effort to punish the speculators it blames for destabilising its debt markets. The decision...
    Posted to Economics on 03-08-2010
    Filed under: Politics, Economics, Financial crisis, Derivatives
  • Hail, Columbia

    I’m just back in Houston from speaking at a conference at the Columbia Law School, titled “The Financial Crisis: Can We Prevent a Recurrence?” It was probably the best conference I have ever attended. It was a gathering of a truly talented group of academics (mainly legal scholars,...
    Posted to Economics on 03-07-2010
    Filed under: Politics, Economics, Financial crisis, Derivatives, Exchanges
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