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Is a full-blown global banking meltdown in the offing?

March 25, 2023

Is a full-blown global banking meltdown in the offing? If everything is fine, then why have US banks borrowed $153 billion at a punitive 4.75% against collateral at the discount window, a larger amount than in 2008/9? (Express Illustration) Financial crashes like revolutions are impossible until they are inevitable. They typically proceed in stages. Since […]

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If Central Banks Are the Only Game in Town, We’ve Lost

March 4, 2019

If Central Banks Are the Only Game in Town, We’ve Lost Relying on monetary policy to prop up asset prices and smooth out global volatility is a recipe for disaster. Just since December 2018, central banks have collectively injected as much as $500 billion of liquidity to stabilize economic conditions. The U.S. Federal Reserve has […]

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The Bubble’s Losing Air. Get Ready for a Crisis

December 16, 2018

The Bubble’s Losing Air. Get Ready for a Crisis Investors need to focus on their response to financial stresses in an era in which policymakers will be constrained. Not much to do once it pops. Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Satyajit Das is a former banker, whom Bloomberg named one of the world’s 50 most influential financial […]

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Deaf blind

September 12, 2017

DEAFBLIND “Most economists, it seems, believe strongly in their own superior intelligence and take themselves far too seriously. In his open letter of 22 July 2001 to Joseph Stiglitz, Kenneth Rogoff identified this problem. ‘One of my favourite stories from that era is a lunch with you and our former colleague Carl Shapiro, at which […]

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Opinion: Inside the global elite’s bag of financial tricks

February 21, 2017

Opinion: Inside the global elite’s bag of financial tricks Easy money masks global economy’s precarious health Shutterstock Too much of economic growth and the accompanying bull market in stocks is the result of financial engineering. Increasingly, companies seek to improve earnings or increase their share price by means that are not necessarily directly linked to their […]

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Next Economy: The Coming ‘Age of Stagnation’

April 25, 2016

Next Economy: The Coming ‘Age of Stagnation’ Author Satyajit Das kicks off Tyee series on global capitalism’s crisis. Satyajit Das: Having worked in financial markets for three decades, Das sees a global economy ‘in peril.’ [Editor’s note: What kind of future will we inhabit? Many thinkers say we’re moving toward automated job scarcity, digital sharing […]

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