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Yellen’s Meeting: Lower Interest Rates?

Mar 31, 2023 | Economy

Why Janet Yellen’s last-minute meeting with financial regulators could lead the Fed to lower interest rates. Janet Yellen, who is the Secretary of the Treasury, recently held an emergency meeting with financial regulators. This meeting led to rumors that...

High Risk Banking: A Look At Globally Systemic Important Banks (G-SIBS)

Jan 9, 2023 | News

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A Reckoning Looms for Commercial Real Estate—and Its Lenders

Dec 15, 2020 | Economic Collapse

Even as Covid-19 cases surge world-wide, the arrival of viable vaccines holds the promise of a return to something resembling normality by the middle of next year. But the commercial real-estate sector may never get back to normal, and that could spell trouble for...

Here Is Why The U.S. Economy Would Continue To Crash Even If All The Lockdowns Were Lifted Immediately…

May 4, 2020 | Economy

COVID-19 has created an enormous amount of fear, and that fear is doing far more damage to the economy than the actual virus is. In an environment of fear, financial institutions become a lot tighter with their money, and that inevitably causes economic activity...

The European Central Bank Is Being Stretched to Its Breaking Point in Italy

Mar 25, 2020 | Fiat Currency

When Mario Draghi’s tenure was approaching its end, I argued for a sterner governor for the European Central Bank (ECB); hence, I was not even slightly enthusiastic when Draghi’s successor turned out to be Christine Lagarde—a patent dove, as can be inferred from her...