A front page story in today’s Washington Post (“In Shift, Wall Street Goes to Washington“) documents the Capital’s rising importance in the financial world: J.P. Morgan Chase for the first time convened its board in Washington this summer, calling the directors to a meeting at the downtown Hay-Adams hotel, then dispatching them to Capitol Hill [...]
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Wall Street Goes to Washington
Posted in Economy, Finance, Politics, Regulation, Uncategorized, tagged Banks, Economics, Fannie Mae, FDIC, Federal Reserve, Finance, Freddie Mac, J.P. Morgan, Lehman, Pimco, Politics, Regulation, TARP on September 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bending the Curve: Redefining Health Insurance
Posted in Health, Politics, Regulation, tagged Brookings, Health, Insurance, Politics, Regulation on September 3, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Over the past few months, a politically-diverse group of health policy experts has been pondering a key question: what are the “specific, feasible steps” that policymakers could use to reduce the growth of health spending? In short, how can we bend the curve? The fruits of their labor were published by the Brookings Institution on [...]
Google and Antitrust
Posted in Internet, Regulation, Technology, tagged Antitrust, Google, Microsoft, Regulation, Search, Wired, Wolfram Alpha on July 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The August Wired has a nice article about the increased antitrust scrutiny that Google is facing. (Updated July 28, 2009 I would usually insert a link to the article, but I couldn’t find one online; sorry, but I am working from the dead-tree-and-ink version that the postman dropped off.) Early on, the article notes some ironies [...]
Big Money in Cap-and-Trade
Posted in Auctions, Budget, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, tagged Auction, Budget, Cap and Trade, CBO, Climate Change, Politics, Regulation, Taxes on June 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
On Friday, the House of Representatives passed its climate change bill by a slim margin. The bill’s key feature is a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases. That system would set national emission limits and would require affected emitters to own permits (called allowances) to cover their emissions. The number one thing you should know about this [...]
Catherine Zeta-Jones & Consumer Finance
Posted in Behavioral Economics, Finance, Internet, Regulation, tagged Behavioral Economics, BillShrink, Catherine Zeta Jones, Finance, Regulation, T-Mobile on June 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Catherine Zeta-Jones has an important message for policymakers who want to help consumers make better financial decisions. Really. Let’s go to the video: I should emphasize that the message is not that economists are bow-tie-wearing geeks who should be sprayed with garden hoses. That may be true, but it isn’t CZJ’s message to policymakers. No, [...]
Linkfest
Posted in Auctions, Budget, Finance, Health, Regulation, tagged Antitrust, Arbitrage, Auction, Budget, Citigroup, Google, Health, Regulation, Search, Stock Market, TARP, Venture Capital, Warrants on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some good items elaborating on topics I’ve discussed in the past week: Paul Kedrosky says that the U.S. Venture Capital industry needs to shrink – by 50%. [my latest post on this] SubsidyScope presents some cool visualizations of the TARP money and other bailouts. (ht: Marcus Peacock in the comments) [latest post] Barrons analyzes the [...]
Google’s Defense
Posted in Internet, Regulation, tagged Antitrust, Bing, Google, Microsoft, Regulation, Search, Wolfram Alpha on June 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Google will likely face close scrutiny from the Obama administration. Indeed, it is already the subject of at least three separate antitrust reviews. Here are three ways Google will try to defend itself.
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