Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Lessons from sub-prime crisis (contd)

I had a post earlier on this topic. The Economist reviews a book, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash -Charles R. Morris, that makes a number of suggestions:

He offers a raft of suggestions: originators should retain the riskiest portion of securitised loans; prime brokers should stop lending to hedge funds that fail to disclose their balance sheets; trading of credit derivatives should be brought onto exchanges for the sake of safety, even if this raises costs; and some version of the old Glass-Steagall act, which separated commercial banking and capital-markets activities, should be re-introduced. Ultimately, he argues, after a quarter-century of “market dogmatism” it is time for the regulatory pendulum to swing the other way.

1 comment:

Deepak Panigrahy said...

Professor,
While going through the various articles on the current crisis situation, I happened to watch a video; which I put on my blog. May I have your comments on the authenticity of the video?
i assure you that atleast you wont get bored of this video; though you may be aware of this. The link is
http://deepu83.blogspot.com/2008/03/is-this-truth.html