Tag Archives: Wall Street

Coffee and Markets: Financial Regulation and Obamacare

March 12, 2010 – 9:19 am

In this week’s edition of Coffee and Markets, we’ll talk about the fallout from a failed attempt by Senators Dodd and Corker to make new financial regulations bipartisan, the latest activity on the bond markets, and what’s next for Obamacare.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Blogs, Features, Markets & Policy, Podcasts | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments

How Much Credit Should We Have in the World?

March 9, 2010 – 11:12 am

Most of Wall Street’s rocket science is aimed at squeezing more credit out of the same amount of capital. It’s very, very clear that we overshot. We created more credit than we should have, in large part because the math we used underpredicted total risk.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Blogs, Features, Markets & Policy | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments

The Unemployment Numbers and America’s Jobs Problem

March 5, 2010 – 10:26 am

In this week’s edition of Coffee and Markets, we’ll talk about the unemployment numbers released this morning and the debate about America’s jobs problem in the context of declines in education.

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Live From Blair House

February 26, 2010 – 12:19 pm

In this week’s edition of Coffee and Markets, we’re recording on-site from the president’s Blair House summit by the White House, and we’re talking about the bond market, the targeting of Toyota, and the future of health care reform.

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Matt Taibbi: Rolling Stone’s New Moralist

February 19, 2010 – 11:46 am

As Taibbi and Rolling Stone perceive, at least in this one narrow context, we all depend upon the internal moral structure of a civilized people. “The system assumes a certain minimal level” of internalized ethics. In a word, our democracy, liberty and free markets themselves depend on our culture. And those who seek to undermine the moral content of that culture strike at the roots of everything else we hold dear.

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The Stimulus is Totally Awesome

February 19, 2010 – 1:43 am

It’s time for your weekly dose of markets and politics with Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your new home for Conservative podcasts. In this week’s edition, we celebrate the anniversary of the stimulus, unpack the ramifications of the financial meltdown in Europe, and hash out the realities of America’s jobless future.

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Coffee and Markets: Debt and the Inevitability of Higher Taxes

February 11, 2010 – 4:09 pm

It’s time for your weekly dose of markets and politics with Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your new home for Conservative podcasts. In this week’s edition, we hash out what’s happening in Greece and the global markets, President Obama’s broken promises on taxes, and what lies ahead for the big entitlement bomb.

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Yeah, Bernanke’s Back

January 29, 2010 – 11:28 am

Bernanke’s back, the State of the Union is one long chiding of the country, and the markets continue their turmoil on the latest edition of Coffee and Markets, your weekly podcast on politics and the economy with Francis Cianfrocca.

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A State of the Union in Contradiction

January 28, 2010 – 7:23 am

A President calling for bipartisanship and an end to the permanent campaign gave a speech that was–in tone and in substance–a campaign speech. A President calling for unity gave a speech that practically cried out “all the bad stuff that happened was George W. Bush’s fault!”. A President calling for a renewal of national purpose spent large amounts of time playing class warfare games, and seeking to turn Americans against Wall Street. That latter activity is an easy one to engage in. But just because something is easy, does not make it right.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments

Wall Street CEOs Roasting on an Open Fire

January 15, 2010 – 10:32 am

Here’s the secret: when asset prices are advancing like crazy, and you’re investing someone else’s money, you don’t EVER want to be the guy who calls the top too early. It’s bad, but not terribly bad, when everyone in the world loses money at the same time. But it’s an unpardonable sin on Wall Street to lose money while everyone else is still gaining.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Blogs, Markets & Policy | Also tagged , , , , | Comments

E.J. Dionne’s Latest Cranky Screed About Wall Street

January 14, 2010 – 4:20 pm

The answer to our problems is not to make the Federal government a great big greentech venture-capital firm. The answer is to take the tax and regulatory gloves off the businesses and investors we already have.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Blogs, Markets & Policy | Also tagged , , | Comments

Bringing Back Glass-Steagall and Other Christmas Miracles

December 23, 2009 – 9:52 am

Large banks would lean over into the broker-dealer part of the space, and leave depository institutions with massive portfolios of US Treasury debt, and not much more. It would be the biggest enabler of government expansion I can imagine.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Features, Market | Also tagged , , , | Comments
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