Archive for November 30th, 2012

Should financial products be given Censor-like ratings for movies – A,UA, U etc.

November 30, 2012

Liz Warren has recently become the Senator for Massachusetts  Financial industry managed to keep her away from the Consumer Financial Products Bureau which was her brainchild. It will be interesting to see what role she plays as a Senator..

Here is a nice suggestion from Prashant Saran, Whole Time Member of SEBI on regulation of financial products. He says it is is wrong to say fin products are different and cannot be regulated:

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Balance Sheet comparisons of Fed, ECB and BoE..

November 30, 2012

Well there is tons of research and discussion on central bank balance sheets and even comparing who did what.

However, this brief note from Ricardo Davico and Brian John Goldsmith of IMF is one of the simplest and neatest so far.

Although each of the central banks had a different approach, all three acted aggressively to inject liquidity into their economies and promote growth.

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Looking at a magic number to summarise macroeconomic stability/instability – 4 could be the answer

November 30, 2012

An insightful paper from Norges Bank econs.

Its starts with intro from Jan Fredrik Qvigstad, Deputy Governor of the central bank. His  experience tells him anything above 4 mark shows build up of instability in that indicator:

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