http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/GFSR/2003/01/index.htm
http://www.fsforum.org/press/Press_Release_FINAL.pdf
[from E Philip Davis and his crew..]
Those interested in financial stability will certainly find the following
of
interest.
Moderator
Andrew Crockett: Central banking, financial stability and Basel II
http://www.bis.org/speeches/sp030213.htm (notably responses to common
criticisms of Basel II
>So, to slow down this potentially destabilizing effect
>is a strong argument for a tax cut. What is needed is to
>make sure that it is not so heavily tilted to the upper end
>of the income distribution as the current proposals coming
>from the president.
>Barkley Rosser
of course, this
In yesterday's Washington Post we saw one of
the first signs of realization that indeed the national
debt is really an asset after all. Next Tuesday is the
last sale of new one-year Treasury bills. Lots of
contracts are indexed on that bill and now it is going
to disappear. Talk is that
