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NY Fed chief lays it on the line, for bankers and for the rest of us

It felt like “The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.” First to appear was departing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who told Wall Street Journal economics editor David Wessel in a wide-ranging exit...

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The future looks a lot like the past

“Regulation of shadow banking is starting to look more and more like regulation of traditional banking 100 to 150 years ago, when it took decades of runs on banks, bank failures and economic agony...

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Runs still threaten the repurchase market: 2014 in review

As 2014 comes to a close,  it’s tempting to try to assess how much systemic risk has been wrung out of the repurchase market by six years of reforms. A fair summary would be: Much proposed but little...

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Economists who best understand repo are still working to stabilize it: 2014...

A series of conferences and reports in the second half of 2014 show that the economists who best understand the repo phenomenon are still worried about it and working to stabilize it. This is welcome...

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Repos make the news

The big news about the repurchase market in 2015 was that it made the news. After decades when the largest financial market in the world rarely appeared in public, in 2015 repos finally hit the big...

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Unfinished business: Banking in the shadows

Paul Volcker gets it. Will anyone listen? Here’s what he wants Americans to know: The main danger in the financial markets is not banks getting too big. The main danger in the financial markets is...

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At mid-year, repo is like an ancient fable

Today’s repurchase market is like the ancient fable of the six blind men and the elephant, where the blind men offer very different descriptions of what each saw when they touched an elephant in a...

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The Panic of 2007-8: What happened?

Ten years after the Panic of 2007-8, there’s still major disagreement about what caused the financial crisis and the Great Recession. That’s the sobering revelation in a flurry of commentary written...

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Repo ended 2020 like it began: causing trouble

Editor’s Note: The following summary of repo news in 2020 is based on the Breaking News that I post daily at repowatch.org. See the entire list of 2020 breaking news reports below this story. See 2021...

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Yep, the 2020s feel like the 1920s

Latest update: August 18, 2021 “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”   – Mark Twain It’s hard not to notice the similarities between the 1920s and 2020s economy. Does that mean trouble...

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