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2010: Hope for a Decade Lost

December 29, 2009

Perhaps the best way to find out whether there is any validity in these sorts of year-end predictions is to look at the one made about this time a year hence. I referred to 2009 as an “Even Tempered Reconciliation”.  Wondering how we might survive was not the issue.  I knew we all would just [...]

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The Risk of Too Little Risk

September 29, 2009

As Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman testifies before Congress, we will come to the conclusion that there is risk, we should do something about it and we still have no idea exactly what. Referring to the problem as systemic risk, both in the creation of firms seeking to reach, through acquisition, the “to-big-to-fail” status [...]

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