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...regulators around the world were already jointly setting bank-capital standards before the current crisis hit. A lot of good that did us. So there is also much talk about the need for a new architecture--"a new Bretton Woods" was a phrase that echoed around Davos--to rein in global financial flows...
Just wait a couple of months, though. Politicians from Beijing to Berlin to Brasília see the current crisis as the product of a messed-up global financial infrastructure dominated by the U.S., and they will soon be pushing for big changes--whether Americans like them...
...regulatory front, the path to a new global approach is pretty clear. Last spring the leaders of the G-7, a club of wealthy nations, agreed to create a "college of supervisors" to more closely coordinate regulation of multinational banks. The Group of Thirty, an influential organization of current and former central bankers and financial regulators, recommended in January that "systematically significant" financial institutions (those that are too big to fail) be identified in advance and subjected to higher capital requirements and tougher regulation. (See who's to blame for the financial crisis...
...proven, yet again, that at least this old-timer can still rock. “Working on a Dream,†like Springsteen’s other albums, features songs about the triumphs and downfalls of the low, the poor, the nobodies. Given the country’s current economic upheaval and political change, these songs seem more relevant than ever. The title song, “Working on a Dream,†is uplifting and embodies the spirit of optimism that is prevalent throughout the album. Springsteen sings, “Though it can feel...
...part of his continuing response to the current financial crisis, Smith had been working to release details on an ‘80-percent plan’ for cutting the FAS budget at the end of January...