In an interview last week, William K. Black hit the nail on the head:[Interviewer]: If you were advising President Obama on financial reform, what would your first priority be? Mr. Black: Containing, and beginning to end, “too big to fail.†Financ…
Posts Tagged ‘dangerous’
Black: Obama Has Rebranded Too-Big-To-Fails As “Systemically Importantâ€. But They Should Be Called “Systemically Dangerous Institutions (SDIs)”
September 19th, 2009 |
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Credit Default Swaps Are STILL Dangerous
September 16th, 2009 |
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I have repeatedly argued that “naked” over-the-counter credit default swaps (CDS) should be banned (“naked CDS” is the term I coined to describe the situation where the buyer is not the referenced entity. There is at least some economic usefulness …
3 Easy Ways To Eliminate Dangerous Malware From Your Computer
August 4th, 2009 |
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Malware is essentially a portmanteau from the words malicious and software. It is a highly dangerous form of virus because it is designed to do significant damage on a computer system without informed consent. This means a computer may crash unknowingly, without any warning whatsoever. Further, malware comes in many different forms such as the [...]
Disgrasian: Philippine Prisoners Dance to Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous”
July 27th, 2009 |
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Once again, the prisoners at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, where 70 percent of the inmates are convicted of serious crimes like murder,…
Antonio Villaraigosa: Sacramento’s Dangerous Shell Game
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Instead of addressing the fundamental problems that keep Sacramento hardwired for failure, lawmakers chose to balance their books on the backs of California’s cities, counties and school districts.