Category Archives: Financial Regulation

TARPing Reforms?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (I submitted this Op-Ed article to WSJ on October 02, 2009) Freedom from fear was the clarion call of the FDR era. Fear is the siren song of the Obama era. The fear of … Continue reading

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How To Restore Clintonomics?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Clintonomics is seminally characterized by two features: first, a steady rise in domestic U.S financial and housing asset prices and second, rapid financial globalization around the world. And these two features were intimately connected … Continue reading

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“Inside Job”: A Review Of The Documentary About Our Current Economic Lives

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Hollywood has finally come up with its account of the ongoing economic crisis playing in a movie theater near you, to bring to the masses an explanation of their economic travails. The bottom 80 … Continue reading

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Bank Contingency Reserves As Taxes

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (This paper of mine has formed a basis for my financial regulatory reform proposal. I had submitted this academic paper to American Economic Association journals and to the Finance and Economics Discussion Series-FEDS-of the … Continue reading

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A Tale Of Two Failures: A Model Of Financial Regulatory Reform

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (This paper of mine has formed a basis for my financial regulatory reform proposal. I had submitted this academic paper to American Economic Association journals and to the Finance and Economics Discussion Series-FEDS-of the … Continue reading

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CC: Credit Card Reform

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (This article was submitted to The Washington Post as an Op-Ed on 01/24/2010. As a possible case of illegal government harassment of me, my wireless AT&T telephone bill exceeded $3000 during the billing period … Continue reading

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A Crisis Of The Intangibles

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Reputation risk is an important consideration in risk management. In a crisis, it is always the case that when carefully cultivated reputations, sometimes over centuries, of venerable institutions and individuals are cast a shadow … Continue reading

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The Smoking Gun Or Where There Is Smoke There Is Fire?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Guns smoke after they have been fired from. But before brushes and forests catch fire they could smoke. The smolders also do after the conflagration. In this crisis it could be confusing for those … Continue reading

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A PROPOSAL FOR THE FINANCIAL REGULATORY REFORM LEGISLATION

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa DESIRED END RESULT BY 2014 (TO BE IMPLEMENTED BETWEEN 2010-2020 BY THE PROPOSED OVERSIGHT COUNCIL IN THE CURRENT SENATE BILL • Fed performs monetary policy only. • All financial regulation, including SEC, CFTC and FDIC, … Continue reading

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Economic Challenges: A Reply To Ben Bernanke

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, has emerged from the shadows in his most recent speech, after the grueling re-confirmation hearing. Closely following a recent speech by Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh on the shadow … Continue reading

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