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, and the United Kingdom.108 When describing the experiment, Friedman talked about the low tax rate, the protection of private property, the trustworthy courts, the light-touch regulation, the low barriers to trade—the pithy outline of the Portable Hong Kong. What he did not mention was its real, unrepeatable history: how Hong
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Singapore is part of a larger argument over the future of capitalism. Will the race to the bottom based on low taxes, low wages, and light regulation continue or will it be replaced by a race to the top based on high wages and heavy investment? Either way, the vision is marred
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same islands for $29 million.69 Miami seemed to be simply following the well-worn playbook of Sunbelt cities luring investors through low taxes and light-touch regulation, but Srinivasan hyped it as “the first of a new set of international cloud capitals and start-up cities.”70 He touted Miami as the
Firefighting
by Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner and Henry M. Paulson, Jr. · 16 Apr 2019
fallen through the cracks of our broken regulatory system. Its insurance subsidiaries were regulated at the state level, while the Office of Thrift Supervision, the light-touch regulator of choice for institutions like Countrywide, IndyMac, and WaMu, purported to oversee its holding company. None of us had visibility into AIG, and none of
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to play the vanguard role in the economy. To help make finance the engine of growth and prosperity, Labour promised to continue the policy of light touch regulation and turn a blind eye to some of the seedier activities of the business elite. New Labour embraced the new market experiment launched by Mrs
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having to deal with a multiplicity of sprats. Our governments have lost faith in genuinely open markets, while protecting free markets for the wealthy alone. Light touch regulation of the financial sector is now seen as a major factor leading up to the global economic crash of 2008. 86 THE NEW ECONOMICS But
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investment banks outpaced other developed economies in Europe and Asia. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair both enjoyed long periods in office and in return delivered “light-touch” regulation to the bankers who were among their largest financial supporters. In Financial Market Meltdown (Praeger, 2009) I basically update the great Victorian banker and journalist
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to the pervasive influence of the economic orthodoxy espoused by Mr Greenspan and others, western governments used markets as ‘the unrivalled way to organise economies’. ‘Light-touch regulation’, ‘outsourcing’, ‘globalisation’ and other policy changes were cheered on as ways to effectively transfer control of the public good that is the monetary system to
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money supply which in turn leads to either inflation or deflation. By focusing on the behavior of bankers, they ignore the regulatory context: the easy ‘light-touch regulation’ under which public authorities permit banks to lend. They ignore, too, the willingness or reluctance to borrow by firms or individuals, and their role in
The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril
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its status as one of the world's major financial centers. The US argues that the problems relate to the laxity of Britain's famous light-touch regulations, which have been a factor in the rise of London as a global finance hub. Europeans argue that the prosecution of BNP Paribas was related
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by Ha-Joon Chang · 1 Jan 2010 · 365pp · 88,125 words
financial deregulation programme into a higher gear in the late 1980s, with the so-called ‘Big Bang’ deregulation and since then has prided itself on ‘light-touch’ regulation. The US matched it by abolishing the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, thereby tearing down the wall between investment banking and commercial banking, which
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by John Peet, Anton La Guardia and The Economist · 15 Feb 2014 · 267pp · 74,296 words
global summit on the financial crisis (it would become the G20 summit). Under the Irish single-market commissioner, Charlie McCreevy, the Commission had hitherto favoured light-touch regulation of finance. But in October Barroso enlisted a former IMF boss and French central-bank governor, Jacques de Larosière, to produce a report on how
The Long Good Buy: Analysing Cycles in Markets
by Peter Oppenheimer · 3 May 2020 · 333pp · 76,990 words
call from New York to London fell from $4.37 in 1990 (in 2000 dollars) to $0.40 in 2000.19 Deregulation and Financial Innovation Light touch regulation, or deregulation, is often an ingredient in the buildup of financial bubbles. In the railway boom of the early 19th century in Great Britain, for
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. This bubble was not really so evident in the stock market valuation more broadly, although its collapse did result in huge falls in stock prices. Light touch regulation of financial institutions, together with financial product innovation, were an important ingredient in the housing boom that preceded the collapse. As Carlota Perez (2009) put
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bubble, Japan 114, 148–149, 155–156, 158, 160–161, 162, 164 laptop computers 13 largest companies S&P 500 237–238 technology 234–237 light touch regulation 157–159 see also deregulation Live Aid 13–14 Loewenstein, G. 21–22 long-term returns 29–47 M Maastricht Treaty 17 Mackay, C. 21
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