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Does banker pay matter?
There have been two arguments for limiting bankers' pay. One is that it's a way to punish executives at corporations that took a taxpayer bailout. The other is that it's a way to reduce the incentives for taking risks and...
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October 23, 2009; 12:47 PM ET |
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Cutting bankers' pay
The Obama administration is getting serious on bankers' pay: The Obama administration plans to order companies that have received exceptionally large amounts of bailout money from the government to slash compensation for their highest-paid executives by about half on average,...
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October 22, 2009; 11:29 AM ET |
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Regulating Derivatives
The House Financial Services Committee just approved an amendment mandating that derivatives traded between financial institutions must be traded on an exchange. That would mean the pricing would be public and the counterparties clear, something that manifestly didn't happen when...
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October 15, 2009; 11:29 AM ET |
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Wall Street Loves Money
It's a bad time for the country, but struggling Americans can take some comfort in knowing that Wall Street is finally having fun again. According to the Wall Street Journal, "major U.S. banks and securities firms are on pace...
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October 14, 2009; 3:35 PM ET |
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Congress Warms to a Third Stimulus
As we learned last week, Christina Romer's calculation suggested that the stimulus bill should have been $1.2 trillion, rather than $800 billion. That calculation predicted a gap of $2.5 trillion between what the economy was producing and what it could...
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October 7, 2009; 11:44 AM ET |
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The Wisdom of Not Nationalizing
Back when everyone was arguing over nationalization, it was pretty common to hear people invoke Sweden's example. Sweden had survived a financial crisis a few years before, and done so by nationalizing the country's major banks. This was pretty...
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October 5, 2009; 5:31 PM ET |
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