by Henry Oliner | Aug 3, 2012 | Economics, Politics
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 was enacted to prevent another financial crisis, but it misdiagnosed the crisis and enacted the wrong remedies. People are now waking up to the fact that the bill does not do what its supporters...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 18, 2011 | Politics
Somewhere in the debate on inheritance or death taxes lies the core of the difference in the two parties. The difference is not in which party favors the rich over the common man, which party feels entitled to privilege at taxpayers’ expense or which party succumbs...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 1, 2011 | Economics
If you have the cue ball and just one other ball on the pool table lined up for shot in the corner pocket, AND you are a reasonable competent pool player then you can determine with some degree of accuracy and consistency that you will have a high degree of...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 25, 2010 | Economy, Financial
George Melloan writes in The Wall Street Journal, The Lessons of Basel’s Bean Counters Summarized: In 1988 the banking regulators from 20 leading industrial nations of the International Monetary Fund met in Switzerland and created Basel I to create a common...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 2, 2010 | Obama, Uncategorized
(this was published previously in the Macon Telegraph) Being in the middle of a record economic crisis presents a rare learning opportunity. Several books are worthwhile for those seeking to understand what just happened. Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin details...
