From the *Washington Monthly*: >CLOSING THE RHETORIC/REALITY GAP: Perhaps the most noteworthy portion of today’s event in Baltimore, during the Q&A between President Obama and House Republicans, came during an exchange on health care reform. The pre…
The debate on the eurozone was predictably full of waffle and empty rhetoric. The audience wanted answers to the financing problems of Greece, the economic woes of Spain, and the [...]
An old debate at the European Central Bank has just been reignited by Axel Weber, Bundesbank president. Speaking at a media prize ceremony in Hamburg he has repeated his concern [...]
NEW YORK, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ — According to a new report released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), the debate over patent reform has become more strident in the past few years as many of the world’s largest companies face increasing threat…
Debate on the nationalisation of the South African central bank has been reignited after the head of the ANC submitted a document questioning the bank’s current ownership, raising fears of [...]
Barack Obama has decided to side with a state solution, if not yet a well-thought-out one, to preventing bank failures bringing down the world economy. But there is a market alternative: fix the banks so the bondholders keep bank risk-taking under cont…
1) Jackie Calmes: Political Memo – Questioning the Use of a Commission on the Debt Limit: >[J]ust in time for the latest debate, the unpublished posthumous memoir of a central figure on the Greenspan panel, Robert M. Ball, a former Social Security c…
Is London’s banking system a vital cog that keeps the capital running, or a timebomb in the British economy? Let the debate begin…Dear BorisBanks must be one of the most effective lobby organisations in modern times. You probably saw the recent IMF paper “A fistful of dollars; lobbying and the financial crisis”, which showed the [...]
The mayor of London issues a fierce defence of financial servicesBoris Johnson, the mayor of London, has issued a fierce defence of financial services in today’s Observer, insisting that the capital “needs a banking sector that is big, dynamic and willing to experiment with new products”.In a debate with Observer columnist Will Hutton, he said [...]
Keith Hennessey: >Why you can’t do just the health insurance reforms: Most of the current insurance “reform” debate instead focuses on the guaranteed issue and community rating provisions of the House- and Senate-passed bills. I oppose these p…