The Volcker Rule, Basel 3. Dodd-Franck and all the rules and regulations will not help banking stability until banks are allowed to fail. As long as banks are not allowed to fail, managers will continue to be engage in willful or ignorant risky behavior. Too much regulation also sacrifices efficiency. The way to ensure

Time stamping…

  US monetary and fiscal policy 2014 – 2017. I believe it is inevitable that QE tapering will happen. This is driven by the need to control the growth, and one day shrink, the Fed’s balance sheet which is currently at 4 trillion USD and growing. The dangers of maintaining a balance sheet of this

Why is QE ineffective in reviving current demand and employment even as it drives up equity and high yield bond markets? The massively expansionary monetary policies have yielded surprisingly low inflation while inflating asset prices across the globe. Bond yields have compressed and equity markets have surged in the past 5 years. Why is monetary

Despite strong economic growth, Chinese equities have been derating over the past few years. There are technical reasons for the underperformance, mostly due to regulation and the nature of the investor base, which are mostly domestic retail investors.  Still, this does not explain the cheap valuations in offshore listings of Chinese companies. The current structure