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30 Sep 08

FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - European banking on borrowed time

The crucial problem on this side of the Atlantic is that the largest European banks have become not only too big to fail, but also too big to be saved. For example, the total liabilities of Deutsche Bank (leverage ratio over 50!) amount to about €2,000bn

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14 Sep 08

Rush Is On to Prevent Big Insurer From Failing - NYTimes.com

This kind of amazes me. I always thought of AIG as Super Tough - borderline unethically Tough - but Super Smart. How do we understand this? Is it just (LTCM-like) Hubris?...

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01 Mar 06

The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College | Credit Derivatives and Financial Fragility - Policy Note 2006/1 by Edward Chilcote

On September 15, the Federal Reserve convened 14 large credit derivatives-dealer banks to an unusual meeting (Beales 2005b). The last such meeting occurred on September 16, 1998, in secret. At that time, a major financial institution was melting down and

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