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Economist's View: '100% Reserve Banking' and 'Big Data: Are we …

A link to this post is being retweeted in unusually large numbers: 100% Reserve Banking — The History, by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi: So both John Cochrane and Martin Wolf are advocating 100% reserve banking. If these two agree on anything, it’s worth taking seriously! (It’s pretty amazing how advocates for narrow banking come from across the […]

April 26, 2014 ByMark Thoma banking, behind-the-idea, big-data, cochrane, history, king, making-the-same, martin, political, saturday, thoma, twitter Comments Off read more

Noise Trading, Bubbles And Excess Stock Market Volatility …

Noah Smith has a very nice post this morning:Noah Smith: Risk premia or behavioral craziness?:John Cochrane is quite critical of Robert Shiller…. He… thinks that Shiller is trying to make finance less quantitative and more literary (I somehow doubt this, given that Shiller is first and foremost an econometrician, and not that literary of a guy).But the most interesting criticism […]

January 3, 2014 ByBrad DeLong america, american, business, cochrane, gene, investment, king, market, robert, shiller Comments Off read more