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Entries tagged "Christopher Cox"

Movers & shakers: July 20, 2009

Oppenheimer & Co. tapped Michael Murphy and Tom Mulkeen as managing directors in the taxable fixed-income sales and trading department. They will report to Robert...

A matter of interpretation

Did fair-value accounting deepen the crisis or provide the remedy? Does the market provide a rational view of true value or a procyclical blast of emotion? The debate roars on, with no end in sight.

The year in review

The crisis, pixie dust and the crash of Abstract Man.

Redefining the blob

At the center of the economic crisis stand the credit raters. How should they be regulated and structured?

Transactions: Dec. 1, 2008

As we move forward, replacing our old experts with new, how much of the old do we abandon and how much do we keep? Consider the case of the Federal Reserve.

Economist in chief

The new president and his economic team face daunting issues that leave no time for dallying. Here are some clues for what to expect in the early days of the Barack Obama administration.

Swap meet

Credit default swaps get the attention of regulators, exchanges and clearinghouses, but how the process will settle is anyone's guess.

Transactions: Oct. 13, 2008

Nobody seems to know what to do about bubbles, even as finance consolidates. Meanwhile, we're already preparing elements of the conventional wisdom for the next bubble.

The only game in town

There have been plenty of ideas for how to deal with the credit crisis, but all have been drowned out by the administration's call for Wall Street's bailout.

Welcome mat

The SEC plans to make it easier for foreign companies to have their securities traded in the U.S.

Cox and why naked shorting is sorta bad, but not really

First the president, then the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It's good to hear from these guys.

Transactions

So far the debate over financial regulation consists of some papers fluttering out of Treasury. The public is snoozing, Congress distracted and SEC chief Christopher Cox seems ready to give up the ghost. This'll be great.