Robert Johnson
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- November 18, 2009 - 12:35pm
This post is an excerpt of testimony presented to the Senate Agriculture Committee on November 18, 2009 in a hearing on legislation reforming regulation of financial markets. The testimony was presented on behalf of Americans for Financial Reform.
- Published Opening Night in Chicago: Senator Durbin Denounces Unfairness, Calls for Reform (Blog entry)October 26, 2009 - 11:16am
"There were times when I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will"
-Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come - August 28, 2009 - 8:50am
We live in an era where the effectiveness of government has been denigrated for more than 30 years. The echo chamber of the right, particularly since the election of Ronald Reagan, has sought to intimidate anyone who let the romantic notion into their head that government can help.
- March 6, 2009 - 10:08amA parable of Wall Street that captures just how our so-called financial wizards have acted like, well, worse than donkeys.
- March 5, 2009 - 12:13pm
My conversation with Bill Moyers: Regulators need to get fierce with so-called "zombie banks," restructuring them in order to stop the free-fall of the financial markets.
- August 4, 2008 - 9:43am
William Greider's newest piece for the Nation, goes directly and simply to the politics of U.S. financial policy in a crisis. Throughout his career, Bill has bored into and through the questions of how are economy, and political economy operate. He has cast his eagle eye on nearly every aspect of the realm where economics and politics meet.
- April 25, 2008 - 11:16amThe financial markets are rallying and many leading investment bankers are declaring that the crisis is over. Methinks they do protest to much.
- April 17, 2008 - 11:34am
In a Financial Times article, Martin Wolf illustrates that a man who has alway been pro market can see the problems with no regulation and self policing of markets. Wolf is right that regulation and enforcement are also human activities that can generate their own follies; but the work of the society is to protect people from the excesses of a given segment of society while maintaining the maximum freedom of those within the sector to be creative.
- Published Crisis on Wall Street - Shock Doctrine Opportunity - Notes from Take Back America Panel (Blog entry)March 27, 2008 - 12:17pmThe crisis on Wall Street appears to be very severe. The Federal Reserve's emergency actions, background discussions with foreign central banks about outright purchase of mortgages, and the premiums on interbank interest rates over Treasury Bills (The so called Ted Spread) suggest that fear of credit collapse is significant. As a result "the rules of the game" are in play.
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- November 18, 2009 - 12:35pm
This post is an excerpt of testimony presented to the Senate Agriculture Committee on November 18, 2009 in a hearing on legislation reforming regulation of financial markets. The testimony was presented on behalf of Americans for Financial Reform.
- Published Opening Night in Chicago: Senator Durbin Denounces Unfairness, Calls for Reform (Blog entry)October 26, 2009 - 11:16am
"There were times when I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will"
-Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come - August 28, 2009 - 8:50am
We live in an era where the effectiveness of government has been denigrated for more than 30 years. The echo chamber of the right, particularly since the election of Ronald Reagan, has sought to intimidate anyone who let the romantic notion into their head that government can help.
- March 6, 2009 - 10:08amA parable of Wall Street that captures just how our so-called financial wizards have acted like, well, worse than donkeys.
- March 5, 2009 - 12:13pm
My conversation with Bill Moyers: Regulators need to get fierce with so-called "zombie banks," restructuring them in order to stop the free-fall of the financial markets.
- August 4, 2008 - 9:43am
William Greider's newest piece for the Nation, goes directly and simply to the politics of U.S. financial policy in a crisis. Throughout his career, Bill has bored into and through the questions of how are economy, and political economy operate. He has cast his eagle eye on nearly every aspect of the realm where economics and politics meet.
- April 25, 2008 - 11:16amThe financial markets are rallying and many leading investment bankers are declaring that the crisis is over. Methinks they do protest to much.
- April 17, 2008 - 11:34am
In a Financial Times article, Martin Wolf illustrates that a man who has alway been pro market can see the problems with no regulation and self policing of markets. Wolf is right that regulation and enforcement are also human activities that can generate their own follies; but the work of the society is to protect people from the excesses of a given segment of society while maintaining the maximum freedom of those within the sector to be creative.
- Published Crisis on Wall Street - Shock Doctrine Opportunity - Notes from Take Back America Panel (Blog entry)March 27, 2008 - 12:17pmThe crisis on Wall Street appears to be very severe. The Federal Reserve's emergency actions, background discussions with foreign central banks about outright purchase of mortgages, and the premiums on interbank interest rates over Treasury Bills (The so called Ted Spread) suggest that fear of credit collapse is significant. As a result "the rules of the game" are in play.
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