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A New Approach for Estimating Firm-Level Cyber-Risk Exposure
May 22, 2023
Using computational linguistics to estimate firm-level cyber risk exposure based on quarterly earnings conference calls.
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“Crypto is a Fraud on the Public”: Financial Watchdog Explains Ties Between Crypto and the Banking Crisis
May 11, 2023
Dennis Kelleher, co-founder of Washington DC-based financial watchdog Better Markets, explains how Main Street gets hurt by the ongoing banking turmoil and why crypto is the last place anybody should be running to for safety.
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Fatima Denton: We Need to Create Spaces to Democratize the ‘Just Transition’
May 8, 2023
“We need to look at the early warning systems in place and aspire to attain food security.”
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Merger Tests in Practice: A Critical Analysis
May 8, 2023
Current tests for mergers are in practice deeply flawed.
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Private Equity is Out of Control and Looting America. This Prosecutor Says We Can Fix It.
May 2, 2023
In his new book, “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan To Pillage America,” Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, outlines the dangers of a trillion-dollar industry that hardly anyone understands. He explains how Americans can fight their harmful practices.
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Markets and Artificial Intelligence
Apr 24, 2023
What happens when we fuse, for the first time, artificially intelligent agents into either our market or political structures?
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Should We Focus on the Problems of the Elite, or Those Faced by the Majority of the African Population?
Apr 20, 2023
Professor Youba Sokona, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and African energy specialist, on how the Ukraine conflict had re-shaped thinking amongst many Africans, and on the transformation in leadership needed to address the problems faced by the majority of Africa’s people.
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¿Otra crisis de la deuda en el Sur Global? Economista revela la clave para entenderla.
Apr 17, 2023
Martín Guzmán, ex ministro de Economía de Argentina, explica cómo el rol del poder debe ser central en la investigación económica, especialmente cuando se trata de deuda soberana.
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Another Debt Crisis in the Global South? Economist Reveals the Key to Understanding It
Apr 17, 2023
Martin Guzman, Argentina’s former Minister of Economy, explains how the role of power should be central to economic research – especially when it comes to sovereign debt.
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The Effect of Sanctions on Russia: A Skeptical View
Apr 11, 2023
Sanctions on Russia are isomorphic to a strict policy of trade protection, industrial policy, and capital controls.
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Bank Stocks Rallied Today, But…
Mar 27, 2023
Morale hazard can turn into a darker ‘moral’ hazard
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The Financial Crisis of 2023: Protecting Big Finance, Coming and Going
Mar 27, 2023
There needs to be a safe place for businesses to place their reserves and working capital
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Anatomy of a Banking Crisis
Mar 27, 2023
There is a banking crisis. Again. Banking regulators were asleep at the switch. Again.
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How to Stop Bank Runs and Get Taxpayers Off the Hook
Mar 27, 2023
A federal government guarantee or 100% reserve banking? Which is better?
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People’s Deposits Are Safe From Bank Failures But Not From the Economic Fallout
Mar 27, 2023
Bank failures don’t threaten most deposits, but they do threaten jobs