Monthly Archives: December 2010

yogi berra on leverage

Professor Anat Admati, one of the distinguished economists who were recently widely noted as calling the bluff on bank CEO assertions about the negative effects of stricter capital requirements, has written a letter addressing the nonsense touted in the Financial Times by such bankers and their supporters. Since many readers will not have access to…

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emperors without clothes

Anyone who still believes blustery assertions from the mighty CEOs of Deutsche Bank, Goldman, JP Morgan, Barclays, and so on, about how they did not really need government help to survive the crisis should just take a look at the Fed’s detailed disclosures today about who ran to the government for help during the crisis.…

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