by Zoltan Pozsar and Manmohan Singh Abstract The present way of thinking about financial intermediation does not fully incorporate the rise of asset managers as a major source of funding for banks through the shadow banking system. Asset managers are dominant sources of demand for non-M2 types of money and serve as source collateral ‘mines’ [...]
Read moreby Zoltan Pozsar Banking is one large, clever, and finely tuned, confidence trick. On the one hand are bank notes which are “legal tender for all debts, public and private”, trade at par and are referred to as money. They are liabilities of the sovereign. On the other are demand deposits – from savings to [...]
Read more Downloadby Paul Horne, Independent Market Economist Why IS the euro so strong against the dollar when bond markets have it on its death bed? Since the onset of the crisis in Greece in late 2009, foreign exchange-traders have been forecasting that the euro will sink to dollar parity before becoming extinct. This expectation is considered [...]
Read more DownloadGreatest Moral Hazard, Says Paul McCulley, Is Austerity Here and Now.
Read more DownloadThree years after the worst financial-economic crisis since the 1930s began; a new international financial, regulatory and fiscal architecture has emerged.
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