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OCC Defines Top Threats To Banks This Season

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The federal banking system is, and should be, a source of strength for the nation and its economy. When it is running well, it powers tremendous growth and economic prosperity for consumers, businesses and communities across the country,” said Keith A. Today, the federal banking system remains healthy,” he continued.

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

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In an interview with Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Nomi Prins takes up and extends the argument that she has made over a series of books, that central bankers are ever-more administering policies that are good for the markets but very bad for the real economy and real people. economy and Wall Street.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

I mean, I didn’t want to blow my own trumpet up too much because most of the positions were in place, the quality funds, which more defensive and less leveraged, and low allocation to — a relatively low allocation to equities, and then the hedge funds sort of long/short positions that benefited in the financial crisis.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. But since you mentioned getting return on the risk you take, how do you think about duration when the three-month Treasury is more or less the same or better than the 10-year? You know, the leverage in the system builds. And I think people underestimate U.S. RIEDER: Yeah.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

Barry Ritholtz

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ed Hyman on Using Economic Data Opportunistically , is below. So you have all of this very pragmatic experience as opposed to getting a PhD in economics, which tends to be a little more abstract and academic. That’s just unprecedented. And then you get an MBA from MIT. Four years.

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Testing Monetary, Fiscal Policy As ‘This Time Is Different’

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Whenever a seismic event comes on the scene, and threatens to swamp the financial system and the U.S. That sentiment was echoed, at least in part, Wednesday (March 18) in an op-ed that ran in the Financial Times , penned by Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, former heads of the U.S. This time is different, as the saying goes.