A Conversation About Alternative Banking’s “Too Big to Fail” Document
Transcript: Charles: Hi, I’m here with Jonathan, who’s a participant in the Alternative Banking Group of Occupy Wall Street. So Jonathan you’re working on a very interesting document and seeking...
View ArticleState and Religion in Egypt
Click to view slideshow. Egypt is agog with talk of ongoing developments in the relationship between the state and Islam. Indeed, the two biggest winners in Egypt’s parliamentary elections, which were...
View ArticleLetter from the Periphery 2: Free Riders
Today was essentially a quiet office day. I just needed to sort out some warehouses, get some paper work done. The morning was punctuated by the excellent U.N. Security Forces meeting, where you get...
View ArticleA (Highly Pixelated) Discussion with Nathan Tankus About the LIBOR Scandal
We here at View From the Metropole believe that content is more important than packaging. Our copy of this interview is poor quality, but we believe that the discussion is worth it. Back in June we...
View ArticleThe Euro as Idealist Project, or: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love...
By Nathan Tankus (Crossposted with Naked Capitalism) In many accounts of American economic history, the early days of banking are described as chaotic and contradictory, characterized by all sorts of...
View ArticleThe Surveillance Society (Edited Version)
For the Full Version see: http://xanderscopic.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/the-surveillance-society/ I guess even if the courts don’t work it’s alright as long as everyone is always filming everyone else....
View ArticleThe Politics of Ideological Arguments
The periods in history which experienced the greatest social and political transformations were often those following prolonged economic and material instability or catastrophe: a bankrupt state was...
View ArticleMortgage Debt and the US Economy
This article by Zachary Goldfarb in Thursday’s Washington Post highlights the rift that exists among policy-makers and economists about the significance of mortgage debt for the economy’s tepid...
View ArticleDeclare Independence from Banker Rule
By Elizabeth K. Friedrich During the last few decades, big banks shifted their business model from one that sought the best interest of their customers to one primarily benefiting themselves. This...
View ArticleThoughts On MF Global, A Year Later
The scandal surrounding MF Global rightly drew massive amounts of attention and commentary from the financial press and mainstream news outlets alike last year. Since then, the eighth-largest...
View ArticleTop Ten Trends in Finance
Barry Ritholtz from the Big Picture gives his top ten trends in finance: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/01/the-10-biggest-trends-in-finance-today/
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