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A Failure of Regulation   [2010_02-02,  Website] Failure of Regulation.   How to reform Regulation to avoid a relapse. Chapter 1 – A Failure of regulation Much has been said and written on the causes of the financial crisis of 2007/2009.  Fingers have been pointed at the lax monetary policy operated by the Fed following the recovery from the bursting of the tech bubble.  Others have made a connection with the liquidity created by the structural payments imbalances which forced surplus countries to dump their excess savings on the US credit markets, forcing long term rates to lose their linkages with the Fed’s traditional control over short term interest rates. Who can forget the amazement of Alan Greenspan at seeing the Fed’s loss of influence over the long term end of the interest rate curve, which amazement Greenspan had described as ‘conundrum’? Some  have blamed the crisis on the inability of banks to self regulate and their indulging in excessive leverage to reap increased profits, leading to outrageous executive bonuses. Some have blamed the lax control on the initiation of sub-prime mortgages and on the distribution model for mortgage backed securities by major banks  who had no contact whatsoever with the mortgage borrowers underlying their CDO’s; such that banks were totally blinded by their defective mathematical models on the true credit worthiness (or lack of it)  of the borrowers underpinning their exposure to sub-prime mortgag...     ....read more Europeans are from Mars [2010-08-08,  The Malta Independent on Sunday] Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus goes the saying originated by the 1992 book of John Gray arguing that men and women are as different as beings from different planets. The stark difference between the US and European approach to the painful and long drawn economic r...   Cynical Me [2010-07-25,  The Malta Independent on Sunday] Do we have a shadow government? In posing this question, I use ‘shadow’ not in the sense of shadow cabinet or shadow minister to explain the role of the Opposition in keeping tabs on the government’s work. I use it in the sense that company l... Defining Social [2010-07-11,  The Malta Independent on Sunday] Why on earth is the Social Affairs Committee (SAC) of our national Parliament wasting its time discussing who should and who should not transmit premium football coverage on pay networks? Surely there are much more pressing issues of a far more serious nature t...   Apres Moi [2010-06-27,  The Malta Independent on Sunday] When the government wanted to sell the premium property occupied by the former Holiday Inn Hotel on the Fort Cambridge site, it issued a public tender with a development brief explaining what sort of buildings could be supported on this land. When, in the end,... Revert to Old Currencies Temporarily [2010-06-24,  Financial Times] Sir, Vincent J. Truglia (Letters, June 18) is right in maintaining that the status quo in the eurozone is unsustainable, but is wrong in prescribing as a solution that peripheral countries should exit the euro as soon as possible. Irrespective of whether or not...   Square Circles [2010-06-13,  The Malta Independent on Sunday] The US economy seems well entrenched in a gradual recovery from the banking induced recession. The recovery is now being reflected even in the US jobs market, which is normally a lagging indicator of economic growth. Employers initially meet increased production demand with overtime... Plan C for the Euro [2010-06-10,  The Malta Business Weekly] Doubts about the sustainability of the euro monetary union are being expressed openly as never before. The foreign exchange value of the euro has fallen some 12 per cent against the US dollar over the last two months and, notwithstanding Greece’s bailout and a pledge...   The Euro Austerity Club [2010-05-30,  The Malta Independent on Sunday] In an article I wrote in this series two months ago, I posed the question whether the euro monetary union would still be around in 20 years’ time. 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