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How Not to Solve a Crisis

…is the title of a useful contribution to the discussion from the International Policy Network in London and the Lion Rock Institute in Hong Kong. Their recommendations for finding a way out of the financial mess are worth attending to:

– Better mechanisms are needed to manage the failure of large financial institutions, some of which may now be both too big to fail and also too big to rescue.
– Open ended guarantees to depositors and other counterparties are expensive and…

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“One of The Great Success Stories of All Time”

While conservatives are angry about a number of things at the moment, they should be at least as angry that the Congressional Democrats who helped stoke the mortgage crisis are getting away with blaming everyone else for it. Today, Senator Chris Dodd, the prime recipient of GSE lobbying funds and proud holder of a sweetheart mortgage from Countrywide, is holding hearings where the witnesses will blame everyone but Dodd, Barney Frank and their cronies. Republicans asked to invite witnesses but…

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