Showing posts with label Rationality in capital markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rationality in capital markets. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

How does skin in the game help solve the Black Swan problem?

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As I was reading Skin in the Game , Nassim Taleb’s latest book, the thought crossed my mind that the author might classify me as an IYI (i...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Is Australian housing more than 40% over-valued?

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Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics A recent article in The Economist suggests that “housing appears to be more than 40% over...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Could Larry Summers be half-right about secular stagnation?

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When I read ‘ The age of secular stagnation ’ by Lawrence H Summers (published in Foreign Affairs (March/April 2016) I was pleasantly surpr...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Why donate through Opportunity International Australia?

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It must have been over 15 years ago when I first began making modest monthly donations to Opportunity International Australia . Opportunity...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Is Bitcoin better than gold?

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When suggestions have been made to me in the past that I should write about Bitcoin, I have expressed reluctance on the grounds that I don’...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Do I agree with Steve Keen's views about the causes of the GFC and the NAR?

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Who is Steve Keen? What is the NAR? And why am I wondering whether or not I agree with Steve Keen? Steve Keen is an Australian economic...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Should the GFC be viewed as a 'balance sheet' recession of the kind Irving Fisher wrote about in the 1930s?

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I have been feeling a strong urge to write about the economic policies of the former government of our resurrected prime minister, Kevin Ru...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Would it be costly to require banks to raise equity to 30 percent of total assets?

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In their recently published book,  'The Banker's New Clothes ', Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig make a strong case that in orde...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Is the regulatory problem in banking similar to that in the nuclear power industry?

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In their recently published book, 'The Banker's New Clothes ', Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig suggest that the causes of the g...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

Should the Australian government continue to guarantee bank deposits?

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In a recent post I suggested that government guarantees of bank deposits tend to encourage banks to become highly geared because they mak...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

How can governments stop encouraging banks to be highly geared?

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A reader of my book, Free to Flourish , is puzzled by a brief comment I made about fundamental weaknesses in the financial system. He asks...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

What is the case for government funding of mitigation research?

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I ended a recent post by suggesting that serious consideration should be given to Bjorn Lomborg’s view that mitigation of climate change ...