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Bad Statutes, New Crimes

featuring Marie Gryphon

Audio|Fri, 12 Mar 2010|More from Cato Daily Podcast
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“…know intends. And a chilling effect on standard legal business practices and Cato institute and John Stella Marie Griffin is a senior fellow -- Manhattan institute she company. …”

“…century and so. As an enforcement technique it has this serious unintended side effect of criminalizing ordinary people who are going about the business and not claim -- any traditional way. …”

Don't Blame The Shorts: Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History Is Repeating Itself

Purchase book In the aftermath of the financial collapse, regulatory agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission targeted short sellers as a contributor to the crisis. In Don't Blame the Shorts, Wall Street veteran Robert Sloan examines how short sellers provide liquidity and transparency to our capital markets. The panel also explores why short sellers are often portrayed as the villains when they expose corporate fraud and mismanagement.

“…those surpluses go. They went chiefly into the call money market of Wall Street either directly by corporation by the corporations or indirectly through the banks. Credit contracted. Industry stopped. Commerce declined -- unemployment mounted we …”

“…five years later is very interest in reading. -- right we have Vikram Pandit. . Just a couple of days ago. He comes out and says hey there are ways in which fear overtakes that -- market …”

Seventies Redux?

featuring John Samples

Audio|Thu, 11 Mar 2010|More from Cato Daily Podcast
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“…This is Decatur daily podcast for Thursday march 11 2010. And Jim Brown. . At least we don't have stagflation yet the nineteen seventies paralleled the 2000 several ways. So what might those parallels mean for …”

“…have that in and the parallels I think between Richard Nixon and George W. . Bush are actually quite. Quite clear. I would add that bush I continued. To the tendency towards social conservatism that Nixon pioneered hasn't …”