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- Stupid Is as Stupid Does: The SEC and CFTC Legalize Electronic 'Gambling'
- Mark Sunshine submits: Forest Gump said “stupid is as stupid does” and the latest move by the SEC and CFTC to license clearing houses for credit default swaps is about as stupid as it comes. Rather than questioning the underlying economic rational and legality of credit default swaps, the...
- External links 2008-12-29
- CIT: Management Still Out of Touch with Reality
- Mark Sunshine submits: I have been almost totally silent on CIT’s failure in this blog. The reason is that I believed it wasn’t appropriate to comment negatively on a competitor or its business. However, now that CIT has sought protection from its creditors I no longer feel that I...
- External links 2009-11-02
- Consumer Credit Bureaus Need Reform, Too
- Mark Sunshine submits: President Obama’s effort to reform the banking system doesn’t address the system’s biggest problem, which is how consumer credit is underwritten in the United States. Without exception, no material consumer loan is made in America without the borrower’s credit bureau first being polled by prospective...
- External links 2009-09-17
- When Things Got Tough, Hank Paulson Went Skiing
- Mark Sunshine submits: Hank Paulson said the unimaginable last week. He testified that he was off skiing when he had his famous telephone call with Ken Lewis where he strong-armed Lewis and Bank of America BAC to complete the acquisition of Merrill Lynch MER. Lewis had previously testified that...
- External links 2009-07-20
- Small Business Lending: Why the Programs Need to Change
- Mark Sunshine submits: Programs to get small business lending moving aren’t working. Instead of a resurgence of small business lending, the situation is getting worse. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that the White House was searching for ways to help small business by unlocking frozen...
- External links 2009-07-18
- Government Accountability Is the Key to Regulating Banking
- Mark Sunshine submits: The problem with the banking regulatory system that needs to be fixed is that regulators aren’t held responsible when they do a bad job. Obama’s focus on new legislation doesn’t do a lot to promote government accountability and takes the spotlight off leadership problems that exist...
- External links 2009-06-22
- Citigroup 2007 Disclosure: Why It Bothers the SEC
- Mark Sunshine submits: Last week while appearing on FOX Business Network I was repeatedly asked why the SEC was bothering with a civil enforcement action against Citigroup C for alleged bad 2007 mortgage portfolio disclosure. My FOX Business friends thought that the SEC’s action was dumb because the U.S....
- External links 2009-06-03
- CDS and the Looting of AIG
- Mark Sunshine submits: After yesterday’s AIG AIG news, I am amazed that the Obama Administration hasn’t announced an immediate suspension of the sale of new credit default swaps. Perhaps it will take a total meltdown of the financial system for the government to finally admit that Warren Buffett was...
- External links 2009-03-04
- Chinese Currency Revaluation: Could It Hurt America?
- Mark Sunshine submits: There is mounting evidence that a freely floating Chinese currency will actually drop in value and make Chinese exports cheaper. In his confirmation hearings, Tim Geithner espoused the U.S. “Conventional Wisdom” that China is an unfair trade competitor because it manipulates its currency down in value...
- External links 2009-02-05
- Recovery Only Widening the Gap Between Haves, Have Nots
- Mark Sunshine submits: On Monday, Catherine Rampell of the New York Times authored a story in the Week in Review that quoted an economist who stated that there are “as many views of the economy going forward as you have letters of the alphabet to describe the recovery.” ...
- External links 2009-11-02
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- Mark to Market and the Crisis of Confidence
- Mark Sunshine submits: Last week I had lunch with Marty Schiffman, who told me that “If I live 1,000 years, I will never understand that accounting rule! It’s dishonest!” Marty was, of course, talking about the application of mark to market accounting rules by major financial institutions. Marty Schiffman...
- External links 2008-08-28
- Mark Jones Joins Sunshine Network
- Sports Editors MIAMI--BW SportsWire--July 24, 2000 ABC Sports & ESPN Sportscaster Joins Sunshine Network As Full-Time South Florida Reporter; Will Also Serve as Host and Sideline Reporter for Sunshine's Miami Heat Telecasts Popular ABC Sports, ESPN and South Florida sportscaster Mark Jones is joining Sunshine Network this...
- Research articles 2000-07-24
- Like Yoda, Milton Friedman Crusades Against the Dark Side
- Mark Sunshine submits: 25 years ago Milton Friedman was an economic Yoda teaching that money supply was an ever-present “Force” controlling the economy. With a new financial Death Star threatening, Friedman is remembered by the Federal Reserve’ Jedi Knights of money supply. Before his death, Master Friedman was...
- External links 2008-08-19
- Prominent Economists Make Up Data That Doesn't Exist
- Mark Sunshine submits: For the week ending August 11th, money supply grew by $7.0 billion to $7,728.1 billion (as measured by M2 on a seasonally adjusted basis). Since the week ending March 24th seasonally adjusted M2 has only increased by approximately 0.35% which means that M2 continues to grow...
- External links 2008-08-25
- Let's Not Emulate the Hoover Administration
- Mark Sunshine submits: Some of the headlines from last week’s Federal Reserve conference sounded like they were written in the 1930’s when the Hoover Administration encouraged liquidation of assets and banks as a way to fix the economy. Willem Buiter, a former official of the Bank of England and...
- External links 2008-08-25
- Another Week of No Money Supply Growth
- Mark Sunshine submits: Last week the Federal Reserve once again announced that money supply as measured by M2 declined on both a seasonally and non-seasonally adjusted basis. For the week ending August 18th, money supply shrank on a seasonally adjusted basis by $10.5 billion and on a non-seasonally adjusted...
- External links 2008-09-02
- The Fed's Next Move: Money Supply
- Mark Sunshine submits: While most of the business media is focusing on Lehman and troubled financials, they are forgetting about this week’s Fed meetings and how monetary policy will respond to the crisis. After almost 6 months of shrinking real money supply nominal money supply adjusted for inflation, Fed...
- External links 2008-09-15
- Are We There Yet? No Way.
- Mark Sunshine submits: Given the events of the past few days, it is once again time to examine the immortal question posed by children and traders alike, “Are we there yet?” Nope, not yet, we aren’t there yet, not even close. The bottom hasn’t been found in the...
- External links 2008-09-16
- Are We There Yet? Not Even Close.
- Mark Sunshine submits: Given the events of the past few days it is once again time to examine the immortal question posed by children and traders alike, “are we there yet”? Nope, not yet, we aren’t there yet, not even close. The bottom hasn’t been found in the...
- External links 2008-09-17
- Searchlight kicks in big bucks for 'Miss'.(Sundance Film Festival)(Fox Searchlight Pictures)(Little Miss Sunshine)
- Fox specialty arm Fox Searchlight made the first buy of the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend, picking up worldwide rights to "Little Miss Sunshine" in a heated bidding war that hit the $10 million mark. Pic comes from husband-and-wife commercials and...
- Research articles 2006-01-23
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