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    <title>An analytical approach to bistable biological circuit discrimination using real algebraic geometry | bioRxiv</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Small biomolecular circuits with two distinct and stable steady states have been identified as essential components in a wide range of biological networks, with a variety of mechanisms and topologies giving rise to their important bistable property. Understanding the differences between circuit implementations is an important question, particularly for the synthetic biologist faced with the challenge of determining which bistable circuit design out of many is best for their specific application. In this work we explore the applicability of Sturm’s theorem—a tool from 19th-century real algebraic geometry—to comparing “functionally equivalent” bistable circuits without the need for numerical simulation. We consider two genetic toggle variants and two different positive feedback circuits, and show how specific topological properties present in each type of circuit can serve to increase the size of their operational range. The demonstrated predictive power and ease of use of Sturm’s theorem suggests that algebraic geometric techniques may be underutilized in biomolecular circuit analysis.

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    <title>[1310.8267] Realization of Morphing Logic Gates in a Repressilator with Quorum Sensing Feedback</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-11T23:48:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8267</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We demonstrate how a genetic ring oscillator network with quorum sensing feedback can operate as a robust logic gate. Specifically we show how a range of logic functions, namely AND/NAND, OR/NOR and XOR/XNOR, can be realized by the system, thus yielding a versatile unit that can morph between different logic operations. We further demonstrate the capacity of this system to yield complementary logic operations in parallel. Our results then indicate the computing potential of this biological system, and may lead to bio-inspired computing devices.
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    <title>David Dayen: Regulatory Apparatus To Provide Full Employment For Chroniclers of Future Bailouts, as Useless Mortgage Origination Rules Introduced « naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-31T10:31:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/david-dayen-regulatory-apparatus-to-provide-full-employment-for-chroniclers-of-future-bailouts-as-useless-mortgage-origination-rules-introduced.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As for regulation inhibiting private capital, it’s really quite the opposite. The wild west show that is private label securitization has kept private investors away from the market for the last five years. Further deregulation will only cement that wariness.

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    <title>[PDF] IRS 501(c)(4) organizations</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-14T10:10:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[social welfare groups]]></description>
<dc:subject>Workantile nonprofit law regulation</dc:subject>
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    <dc:date>2011-07-08T11:39:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Speculation: There’s a critique of the regulators and key decision makers during the crisis that invokes cultural capital and the idea that regulators are socialized with Wall Street in a way that it is difficult for them to exercise any type of power over them, to see their interests in conflict. I wonder if the same is true for the corporate sector. As the firm goes global, and as the white-collar workforce is broken by computerization and globalization, more and more elite corporate positions will be filled by those leaving Wall Street. (Has this already happened? Data/Studies?) If so, you’ll see an even more lucrative revolving door between corporate elites and financial elites. As such, any natural checks to financial sector power coming from the corporate market space is less likely to happen."]]></description>
<dc:subject>its-the-unnatural-checks-that-will-be-interesting banking financial-crisis public-policy regulation corporatism financialzation social-networks cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
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    <title>Schumpeter: Rules for fools | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-07T10:58:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/18678963</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["…Florida’s legislature recently debated a bill to remove licensing requirements from 20 occupations, including hair-braiding, interior design and teaching ballroom-dancing. For a while it looked as if the bill would sail through: Florida has been a centre of tea-party agitation and both chambers have Republican majorities. But the people who care most about this issue—the cartels of incumbents—lobbied the loudest. One predicted that unlicensed designers would use fabrics that might spread disease and cause 88,000 deaths a year. Another suggested, even more alarmingly, that clashing colour schemes might adversely affect “salivation”. In the early hours of May 7th the bill was defeated. If Republican majorities cannot pluck up the courage to challenge a cartel of interior designers when Florida’s unemployment rate is more than 10%, what hope has America? The Licence Raj may be here to stay."]]></description>
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    <title>Feds Reviewed Only 100 Foreclosure Files in Servicer Whitewash « naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-14T13:04:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/05/feds-reviewed-only-100-foreclosure-files-in-servicer-whitewash.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We were already very unhappy about the fact that the review was conducted on 2800 mortgage files across 14 servicers and there seemed to be no scientific process for how the cases were selected. The GAO signaled it had reservations about the exercise. And no wonder. Not only was it a garbage-in, garbage out process (whether the borrowers were delinquent was based on the servicers’ say so, not any analysis to see if the fees, charges, and applications of payments were in compliance with the law and the various agreements), it effectively said pretty much all foreclosures were warranted when it looked at only 100 completed foreclosures:

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    <title>[1007.0461] How simple regulations can greatly reduce inequality</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-30T01:41:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0461</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Many models of market dynamics make use of the idea of wealth exchanges among economic agents. A simple analogy compares the wealth in a society with the energy in a physical system, and the trade between agents to the energy exchange between molecules during collisions. However, while in physical systems the equipartition of energy is valid, in most exchange models for economic markets the system converges to a very unequal "condensed" state, where one or a few agents concentrate all the wealth of the society and the wide majority of agents shares zero or a very tiny fraction of the wealth. Here we present an exchange model where the goal is not only to avoid condensation but also to reduce the inequality; to carry out this objective the choice of interacting agents is not at random, but follows an extremal dynamics regulated by the wealth of the agent.…"
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    <title>A “Modest Proposal” for Capital Market Reform: Close Down Rule 144A » New Deal 2.0</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-14T11:37:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newdeal20.org/2010/05/04/a-%E2%80%9Cmodest-proposal%E2%80%9D-for-capital-market-reform-close-down-rule-144a-10400/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While some of the anti-fraud remedies of the securities laws still apply in 144A transactions, these have been watered down in recent years by Congressional action and judicial interpretation. In a series of opinions authored first by Justice Powell and then by Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court has steadily scaled back the scope of the securities laws. Opinions by Justice Kennedy, in particular, limited the impact of anti-fraud protections as well as the ability of investors to sue gatekeepers who play a significant role in preparing offerings."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.angrybearblog.com/2010/05/wall-street-lobbyists-view-of-financial.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FHzoh+(Angry+Bear)">
    <title>Wall Street Lobbyists' View of Financial System Reform | Angry Bear</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-14T11:31:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.angrybearblog.com/2010/05/wall-street-lobbyists-view-of-financial.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FHzoh+(Angry+Bear)</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Now folks, it's pretty revealing when lobbyists have become so accustomed to their privileged access and backroom dealings with politicians --as went on in regards to Cheney's energy discussions, and each of the Bush tax cuts drawn up by a secretive group of GOP without any sunlight (or bipartisansip), for example, and too much with the health care bill as well--that they don't even bother to hide their scorn for the public's views and their hopes for getting that back room deal to go their way. No wonder Wall Street honchos have been so brazenly arrogant about their "entitlement" to bonuses, their rights to continue proprietary trading and hedge funds and derivatives desks--"doing God's work" says Goldman CEO Blankfein--when they are merely running a casino market to strip as much gold off suckers as possible with their "financial innovations" like synthetic CDOs that made the market many times more volatile than "real" securitizations…"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis regulation public-policy trading bushism lobbyists lawyers government bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0af1e2f8a76c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:trading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bushism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/05/automatic-stabilizers-work-always-and-everywhere.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+(Economist's+View+(EconomistsView))">
    <title>Economist's View: &quot;Automatic Stabilizers Work, Always and Everywhere&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-09T14:15:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/05/automatic-stabilizers-work-always-and-everywhere.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+(Economist's+View+(EconomistsView))</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Unless we get better legislators, and a couple of hundred years of history says not to count on that, enhancing the automatic stabilizers may be our best bet going forward. There's considerable empirical evidence showing that they work, including this new evidence that automatic stabilizers work "always and everywhere"…"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis finance public-policy regulation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:60c0f98aed1c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:financial-crisis"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://seekingalpha.com/article/203955-the-biggest-risk-to-the-stock-market-the-illusion-of-liquidity?source=feed">
    <title>The Biggest Risk to the Stock Market? The Illusion of Liquidity -- Seeking Alpha</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-09T11:17:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/203955-the-biggest-risk-to-the-stock-market-the-illusion-of-liquidity?source=feed</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If a fund/institution/High Frequency Trader generates 100mm shares or contracts a day/week/month, market observers will tell you that's a great thing because it creates a liquidity premium. In other words, because there is always someone on the other side of a trade, it is easier to match buyers and sellers and that ease creates smaller spreads and often lower pricing. On the surface that's a great thing.

It is a great thing until the market becomes completely dependent on that liquidity. If every model expects X volume, what happens when that volume falls?"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>liquidity trading financial-crisis regulation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5c46b541e212/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:liquidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:trading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:financial-crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:regulation"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/04/caveat-emptor-is-not-a-business-plan.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+(Economist's+View+(EconomistsView))">
    <title>Economist's View: &quot;Caveat Emptor Is Not a Business Plan&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-29T12:11:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/04/caveat-emptor-is-not-a-business-plan.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+(Economist's+View+(EconomistsView))</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What is striking is that caveat emptor arises as a legal principle mainly because of the tangle the courts would get into if they tried to enforce a more ambitious standard of right and wrong.
Chief Justice Marshall’s logic surely applies with even greater force to modern deals between investment banks and sophisticated qualified investors, both of which will be simultaneously working on many deals, each involving sensitive proprietary information."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>public-policy financial-crisis caveat-emptor law regulation business-model bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1853fb4b8df2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:financial-crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:caveat-emptor"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://seekingalpha.com/article/198197-why-derivatives-caused-financial-crisis?source=feed">
    <title>Why Derivatives Caused Financial Crisis -- Seeking Alpha</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-12T15:05:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/198197-why-derivatives-caused-financial-crisis?source=feed</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In plain terms, derivatives are THE cause of the Financial Crisis. They are behind EVERY failure/ default that has occurred thus far. The fact that virtually no one is willing to address this issue or include it in the discussion of how to insure we don’t have a Second Round of the Crisis only confirms the fact that no one has a clue how to resolve this situation."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>finance financial-crisis derivatives banking regulation public-policy economics bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6d17d7e01ec6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:financial-crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:derivatives"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:banking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:regulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/how_financial_innovation_cause.html">
    <title>Ezra Klein - How financial innovation causes financial crises</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-12T14:59:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/how_financial_innovation_cause.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Then something bad happens. The new product shows its flaws. And precisely because no one really understands it, the market cracks. Investors all run away at once, as they don't really have the tools to assess the situation. Where lack of knowledge about the product originally drove demand, now it accelerates flight."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis finance bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now derivatives public-policy regulation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3d35185a9457/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:financial-crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:derivatives"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:regulation"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2010/04/how_transformative_will_shale.html">
    <title>How transformative will shale gas be? (Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-07T12:20:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2010/04/how_transformative_will_shale.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the old world, Russia was the King Kong of conventional gas. It was like the U.S. on military spending: basically the equal of the ROW (rest of world).

But when you look at the unconventional gas reserves, it's Asia-Pac first, NorthAm second, and the former USSR a middling third. In short, rising Asia and the U.S. can suddenly cover themselves a whole lot more, making both Russia and the Gulf pretty minor by comparison. Remember that last Nov Obama and Hu announced a "US-China shale gas initiative" that promised a swap of US technology for investment opportunities in China. That's gotta spook the would-be "OPEC of gas.""
]]></description>
<dc:subject>natural-resources oil-and-gas economics nationalism competition future regulation peak-oil</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:dd888bba8083/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:natural-resources"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:oil-and-gas"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nationalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:regulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:peak-oil"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/32906678/looting_main_street/print">
    <title>Looting Main Street : Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-05T16:21:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/32906678/looting_main_street/print</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['…These guys aren't number-crunching whizzes making smart investments; what they do is find suckers in some municipal-finance department, corner them in complex lose-lose deals and flay them alive. In a complete subversion of free-market principles, they take no risk, score deals based on political influence rather than competition, keep consumers in the dark — and walk away with big money. "It's not high finance," says Taylor, the former bond regulator. "It's low finance." And even if the regulators manage to catch up with them billions of dollars later, the banks just pay a small fine and move on to the next scam. This isn't capitalism. It's nomadic thievery."'
]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis banking finance regulation public-policy barony crime bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d1101eee4343/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/too_big_to_fail_in_two_dimensi.html">
    <title>Ezra Klein - Too big to fail in two dimensions</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-05T14:40:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/too_big_to_fail_in_two_dimensi.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Here's why I don't think of "too big" as a myth for resolving a firm. In my mind, the farther you are from the origin in that graph, the harder it is for the government to detect problems and properly deter large firms under resolution authority. (This is why I draw our "safe" resolution as a circle, instead of a square.) Holding for a liquidity risk, the larger the firm, the more vicious the effects of having a shadow banking run on the rest of the financial sector and on the real economy. It is possible that the green circle here will be cast out far, and that size and pressures of campaign donations won't play a major part. But why take the chance?"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>multiobjective-optimization economics public-policy financial-crisis legislation regulation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ba15a02caf1d/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/716.html">
    <title>interfluidity » Capital can’t be measured</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-04T11:33:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/716.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So, for large complex financials, capital cannot be measured precisely enough to distinguish conservatively solvent from insolvent banks, and capital positions are always optimistically padded. Given these facts, and I think they are facts, even “hard” capital and leverage restraints are unlikely to prevent misbehavior. Can anything be done about this? Are we doomed to some post-modern quantum mechanical nightmare wherein “Schrödinger’s Banks” are simultaneously alive and dead until some politically-shaped measurement by a regulator forces a collapse of the superposition of states into hunky-doriness?"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis public-policy regulation accounting banking derivatives models sustainability</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5522fff1340f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:accounting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:banking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:derivatives"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sustainability"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://consumerist.com/2010/03/congressional-audit-shows-that-energystar-label-may-be-meaningless.html">
    <title>Congressional Audit Shows That EnergyStar Label May Be Meaningless - The Consumerist</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-30T12:53:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://consumerist.com/2010/03/congressional-audit-shows-that-energystar-label-may-be-meaningless.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In a nine-month study, four fictitious companies invented by the accountability office also sought EnergyStar status for some conventional devices like dehumidifiers and heat pump models that existed only on paper. The fake companies submitted data indicating that the models consumed 20 percent less energy than even the most efficient ones on the market. Yet those applications were mostly approved without a challenge or even questions, the report said."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>energy-efficiency energy-star regulation public-policy standard-setting-play marketing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:8fecab9cdec0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:energy-efficiency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:energy-star"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:regulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:standard-setting-play"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:marketing"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2010/03/every_person_is.php">
    <title>Every Person Is A Media Company: UK Advertising Watchdog To Regulate People's Personal Blogs And Facebook Pages - SVW</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-09T12:52:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2010/03/every_person_is.php</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wow. If a person markets something, like a book they've written, or a product they are selling, it is regulated as if it were advertising published by a media company, such as a newspaper, TV, magazine, etc.

That means everyone is now a media company. And subject to the same regulations - at least in the UK. Wow."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism public-policy ontology-FAIL social-media regulation advertising figure-ground-error</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:8a5865b17190/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:ontology-FAIL"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:advertising"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:figure-ground-error"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/cfpa-ii-some-additional-thoughts/">
    <title>CFPA II, Some Additional Thoughts « Rortybomb</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-07T13:50:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/cfpa-ii-some-additional-thoughts/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Now right now, consumers are facing a range of financial products, from student loans to credit cards to mutual funds, that are much more complicated than they faced in 1933. Some of this complication is innovation, some is meant to synthetically create opacity in the product innovating product differentiation, and some is just regulatory arbitrage. As Dan Geldon has written, the regime of disclosure has been turned into a weapon against consumers instead of the mechanism to let information and competition do its job. So it’s time to update that regime to handle the 21st century."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>transparency lobbyists public-policy government-as-theater law regulation deregulation financial-crisis</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:076b16fc97f5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:lobbyists"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/naive-anthropomorphisms.html">
    <title>Falkenblog: Naive Anthropomorphisms</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-19T19:26:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/naive-anthropomorphisms.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["That someone with such a understanding of complex financial institutions highlights her naiveté, as if things are what they are, not because they are an equilibrium of borrower and saver preferences, but rather, the whims of The Captains of Industry in their top hats. To give her power, would merely reinforce what everyone in the industry knows, that Washington regulators are out-of-touch. For her, competition is simply a "race to the bottom to develop new ways to trick customers", and so we should expect her to create a 'stable' industry, like in our education and postal industries, where there is limited competition but lots of guarantees, and little or no productivity growth."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>models-and-modes financial-crisis regulation management myths cultural-assumptions responsibility corporatism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:57a2cafb4108/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://seekingalpha.com/article/189519-innovation-vs-regulation-a-financial-balancing-act?source=feed">
    <title>Innovation vs. Regulation: A Financial Balancing Act -- Seeking Alpha</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-19T19:22:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/189519-innovation-vs-regulation-a-financial-balancing-act?source=feed</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Where management has a significant portion of its net worth invested along with shareholders, agency costs are likely to be at a minimum. Shareholders can easily determine how invested management is in a company by looking in the same place that a company's executive compensation can be found. Unfortunately, the use of equity swaps, becoming more common in the financial world, can render the information on management's stake in the company essentially useless."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis finance economics incentives regulation investment public-policy compensation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fdd1ca5b0395/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:incentives"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:investment"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/02/patent-examiner-experience-levels-part-ii.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatentlyO+(Patently-O%3A+Patent+Law+Blog)">
    <title>Patent Examiner Experience Levels, Part II - Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-19T14:40:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/02/patent-examiner-experience-levels-part-ii.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatentlyO+(Patently-O%3A+Patent+Law+Blog)</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The graph below shows examiner experience as grouped by technology center as of the end of FY2009."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>work-experience regulation intellectual-property patents visualization a-new-broom-sweeps-poorly</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:68224bfa3478/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:a-new-broom-sweeps-poorly"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://seekingalpha.com/article/172060-regulating-wall-street-like-las-vegas-yes-we-can?source=feed">
    <title>Regulating Wall Street Like Las Vegas: Yes We Can -- Seeking Alpha</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-08T19:55:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/172060-regulating-wall-street-like-las-vegas-yes-we-can?source=feed</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["President Obama promised us “Change We Can Believe In,” and the Democrats control Congress. Ironically, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a former chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission whose unwillingness to be compromised by a gangster was featured in the Martin Scorsese film Casino. Mr. Reid has since been accused of some personal ethical lapses, but he could easily redeem himself if he used his gaming regulation expertise and spearheaded a movement to take on Wall Street’s powerful lobby and create a no-nonsense regulatory agency akin to the Nevada Gaming Commission."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis reform public-policy government regulation bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b83bcc1aa353/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:reform"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/who-believes-market-efficiency/">
    <title>Who believes market efficiency? « Rortybomb</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-08T12:26:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/who-believes-market-efficiency/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Justice Holmes once famously dissented that it’s a form of judicial activism to base our courts on “an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain.” It seems like the same should be said for our government and our regulatory bodies, especially as they try and figure out how to fix the mess that is the financial markets. And it’s worth noting that the founder of this economic theory, The Efficient Markets Hypothesis, doesn’t even believe that people actually in the financial markets entertain it."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>efficiency economics received-wisdom regulation public-policy financial-crisis government disintermediation-targets mythology</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fafc327a660d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/business/24trading.html?_r=2&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss">
    <title>Traders Profit With Computers Set at High Speed - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-24T12:05:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/business/24trading.html?_r=2&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The slower traders began issuing buy orders. But rather than being shown to all potential sellers at the same time, some of those orders were most likely routed to a collection of high-frequency traders for just 30 milliseconds — 0.03 seconds — in what are known as flash orders. While markets are supposed to ensure transparency by showing orders to everyone simultaneously, a loophole in regulations allows marketplaces like Nasdaq to show traders some orders ahead of everyone else in exchange for a fee."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>raw-data-now trading market-timing market-making regulation finance market-efficiency-my-ass the-data-is-not-the-data</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:494c5ea7f061/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:trading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:market-timing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:market-making"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:market-efficiency-my-ass"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://seekingalpha.com/article/138769-bac-where-are-the-damn-cops?source=feed">
    <title>BAC: Where Are the Damn Cops? -- Seeking Alpha</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-21T11:20:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/138769-bac-where-are-the-damn-cops?source=feed</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We saw this sort of "favored garbage" all the time in the 90s. As a consequence Regulation FD, for "fair disclosure", was passed. It mandates that you cannot issue information that is material to your stock price to only a few select people - you have to give it to everyone at the same time, and the most common way you do this is to request a halt on your stock from the NYSE, issue the press release, then have the NYSE lift the halt.

This way nobody can get either long or short in front of your announcement and nobody gets to profit unfairly (or get screwed unfairly) as a consequence of whatever it is you need to announce."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>trading raw-data-now financial-engineering inside-information equities regulation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a344e1e8222e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:financial-engineering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:inside-information"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/the-iniquities-of-men-in-high-places/#comments">
    <title>“The iniquities of men in high places.”* « The Edge of the American West</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-06T11:33:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/the-iniquities-of-men-in-high-places/#comments</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In other parts of the book, Brandeis goes on to challenge the conventional stereotype of the banker as conservative—on the contrary, he noted their “financial recklessness”—and he argued that Americans had systematically been “confusing the functions of banker and business man.” He argued for a system of smaller, more local banks.

I’ve been thinking of this lately, as our old friend urbino (who, alas, doesn’t come around here no more) has beaten almost every major pundit to the punch in arguing that if banks have grown too big to fail, then perhaps they ought to be stopped from supersizing themselves...."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>banking economics regulation financial-crisis public-policy politics finance history Brandeis</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4879a335cb09/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2009/03/17/concretations-of-risk-plagued-with-deadly-correlations/">
    <title>Brad Setser: Follow the Money » Blog Archive » “Concentrations of risk, plagued with deadly correlations”</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-22T12:16:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2009/03/17/concretations-of-risk-plagued-with-deadly-correlations/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Consequently I think it is possible to think of AIG as the insurer-of-last resort to the United States’ own shadow financial system. That shadow financial system just operated offshore. There was a reason why investors in the UK were buying so many US asset backed securities during the peak years of the credit boom."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis global economics regulation risk banking currency</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:382d604b9192/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/03/in-praise-of-primitive-banking.html">
    <title>naked capitalism: &quot;In Praise of More Primitive Finance&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-20T10:25:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/03/in-praise-of-primitive-banking.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Analysts, regulators, and politicians are beginning to recognize that most if not all of the widely touted benefits of modern finance redounded only to its purveyors. The decidedly retro Canadian banking system, with simple products, high equity requirements, and relatively modest securities operations that focus on domestic customers, is the soundest in the world."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>Canada economics government finance business risk-management financial-crisis regulation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c53faba4734c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://airspeedonline.blogspot.com/2009/02/large-aircraft-security-program-capt.html#links">
    <title>Airspeed: Large Aircraft Security Program - Capt Force Speaks Out</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-24T18:05:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://airspeedonline.blogspot.com/2009/02/large-aircraft-security-program-capt.html#links</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If I get enough named supporters so it looks like a real show of force, I’ll include the list in the spot at the bottom. If I don’t get a big response, I’ll probably leave the list of supporters off. Either way, your expression of support will be appreciated.

Note that I am very upset over the proposed rule and the text and tone of my comment reflects this as best I know how without using profanity. And the proposal deserves profanity. If you work for an alphabet organization or otherwise have a relationship with the TSA that requires not angering the TSA, this is not the comment with which you want to be associated. Only the brave and the independent need sign up here."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>TSA government regulation security-theater law aircraft transportation security authority public-policy Bushism bad-design</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c0b9d62a5dff/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://seekingalpha.com/article/112471-stupid-is-as-stupid-does-the-sec-and-cftc-legalize-electronic-gambling?source=feed">
    <title>Stupid Is as Stupid Does: The SEC and CFTC Legalize Electronic 'Gambling' - Seeking Alpha</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-05T13:13:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/112471-stupid-is-as-stupid-does-the-sec-and-cftc-legalize-electronic-gambling?source=feed</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Governor Patterson said it best when he stated that most swaps are used by speculators and for “destructive speculation” that damages “the health of targeted companies.” The proposed clearinghouse will mostly be used for naked credit default swaps and will be the biggest and most technologically advanced gambling joint in the world. And, the destructive impact of naked credit default swaps will grow.
Rather than facilitating the casino mentality that has almost ruined the economy, the SEC, CFTC and other state and Federal regulators should be outlawing naked credit default swaps as gambling contracts and regulating hedging credit default swaps as insurance contracts. And, New York shouldn’t have abandoned its effort to regulate these derivative contracts."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>credit-default-swaps trading markets economics regulation SEC public-policy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:eb484d13167b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/01/cogent-sprint-regulation-tech-enter-cz_sw_1202cogent.html">
    <title>The Day The Web Went Dead - Forbes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-03T22:49:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/01/cogent-sprint-regulation-tech-enter-cz_sw_1202cogent.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The recent disruption marked the final blowup in a year-long game of chicken played by Sprint Nextel and Cogent and brought to light an uncomfortable reality: The Internet is held together by collection of secret contracts struck between private companies, free from government oversight and regulation."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>infrastructure Internet backbone utility commons regulation net-neutrality bad</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:dc84c2b656b7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://rushkoff.com/2008/09/17/financial-melt-up/">
    <title>Douglas Rushkoff » Financial Melt Up</title>
    <dc:date>2008-09-21T13:46:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rushkoff.com/2008/09/17/financial-melt-up/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The sooner you “drop out” of the speculative economy and its abstract concerns, the sooner you will be able to create and provide real value for the people all around you, and the better position you will be in to get what you need for yourself and your family.

This is not bad; it is good. The pain that people are about to go through now is not the product of the speculative economy’s failure, but its former and intentional unjust success."
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    <title>Moral Hazard: A Danger to Our Financial System - Seeking Alpha</title>
    <dc:date>2008-09-21T13:30:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/96074-moral-hazard-a-danger-to-our-financial-system?source=feed</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Our regulators have been stunningly inept. The up-tick rule has been abolished. Niggling distinctions between "abusive" naked short-selling and acceptable naked short-selling become the basis for a tentative approach to possible regulation. A state official, Eric Dinallo of the NY Insurance Department, was the only regulator to come to the defense of MBI, when he finally wrote an article in the Financial Times, noting the illegality of Ackman's defamatory attacks.
Meanwhile, the huge credit default swap industry, a totally unregulated business of insurance, continues as an arena of toxic machinations. Here, in total obscurity, bets are placed: which of the remaining financial companies should be the next victim? Would you be comfortable if strangers could legally place bets on your longevity? Or on whether your house would burn down?"
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<item rdf:about="http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2008/09/why-wall-street-is-melting-down-and.html">
    <title>Robert Reich's Blog: Why Wall Street is Melting Down, and What to Do About It</title>
    <dc:date>2008-09-21T13:15:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2008/09/why-wall-street-is-melting-down-and.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What to do? Not to socialize capitalism with bailouts and subsidies that put taxpayers at risk. If what's lacking is trust rather than capital, the most important steps policymakers can take are to rebuild trust. And the best way to rebuild trust is through regulations that require financial players to stand behind their promises and tell the truth, along with strict oversight to make sure they do.

We tell poor nations they have to make their financial markets transparent before capital will flow to them. Now it's our turn. Lacking adequate regulation or oversight, our financial markets have become a snare and a delusion. Government only has two choices now: Either continue to bail them out, or regulate them in order to keep them honest. I vote for the latter."
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<item rdf:about="http://consumerist.com/5042770/how-to-get-att-naked-dsl-redux">
    <title>Att: How To Get ATT Naked DSL (Redux)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-31T14:28:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://consumerist.com/5042770/how-to-get-att-naked-dsl-redux</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When reader Nick tried to sign up for ATT "naked DSL" or "dry loop" service (getting DSL without having paying for a landline), a curious thing happened.

AT&T said his address doesn't exist. But when he went through the process to sign up for bundled service, more expensive, with landline phone service, magically, it could find his address.

This is odd when you consider a customer service rep later said both options draw from the same database. It's not odd when you consider that AT&T only made naked DSL available because the FCC made them in exchange for letting them do some fancy business transactions, and then initially made it very confusing for people to try to sign up."
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<dc:subject>AT&amp;T deception sales marketing regulation violation DSL broadband</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/08/designing-monop.html">
    <title>Marginal Revolution: Designing Monopoly</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-21T17:55:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/08/designing-monop.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In Alabama it is illegal to recommend shades of paint without a license.  In Nevada it is illegal to move any large piece of furniture for purposes of design without a license."
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<dc:subject>licensing regulation self-interest standards-setting-organization business-culture protection</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f4e6394cff6b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://my.dteenergy.com/products/customerGeneration/guidelines.html">
    <title>Guidelines and Applications</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-21T12:13:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://my.dteenergy.com/products/customerGeneration/guidelines.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[DTE makes it hard to find info on net metering. They call it "DG", or "customer generation" or "sellback".
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<dc:subject>house alternative-energy wind DTE-Energy sellback net-metering regulation utility</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/26/a_nation_of_outlaws/?page=full">
    <title>A nation of outlaws - The Boston Globe</title>
    <dc:date>2007-08-30T11:52:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/26/a_nation_of_outlaws/?page=full</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>history USA piracy China development business regulation economics government social-norms</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:da53af206be2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=910614">
    <title>SSRN-It's SHO Time! Short-Sale Price-Tests and Market Quality by Karl Diether, Kuan-Hui Lee, Ingrid Werner</title>
    <dc:date>2007-07-06T12:24:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=910614</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Paper explaining results of SEC's pilot test of limited SHO short-sale price-test removal.
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<dc:subject>finance trading markets SEC government regulation dynamics economics herd-following</dc:subject>
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    <title>SEC TO END SHORT SALE TICK TEST</title>
    <dc:date>2007-07-06T12:16:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/2007/dig062807.txt</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It may have an effect on the underlying dynamics of market prices... but it seems like a rule of decreasing importance as the tick resolution of trading increases.
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<dc:subject>trading SEC law finance markets regulation repeal bull-vs-bear</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/">
    <title>Blog Law » 12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know</title>
    <dc:date>2007-05-07T10:44:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>blogging legal advice lawyers privacy lawsuits press government business-model regulation business publishing</dc:subject>
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    <title>eBay Mulling Changes to Deal with State Regulation</title>
    <dc:date>2007-03-05T20:37:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m03/i05/s02</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the major changes to their selling agreements that will occur in 2007 is a requirement by eBay that anyone accepting consignments for auction who holds themselves out to be an auctioneer, who participates in auctioneering or who advertises that th
]]></description>
<dc:subject>eBay auction eCommerce online sales regulation lawyers</dc:subject>
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