The INET Executive Director engages the author in an in-depth conversation that ranges through many of the big themes at the core of what the new Institute is about. Anatole Kaletsky interviewed by Robert Johnson in New York City, June...

The video is a guide for aspiring entrepreneurs on how to finance the launch of a business. It provides various avenues of financing and practical ways to approach investors, including friends and family, veteran programs, microlenders,...

In this lecture presentation, the speaker discusses the purpose and importance of financial regulation within the banking and financial sector. The speaker explains the various risks involved in banking, including credit risk, market...

Canada has long received credit for its economic turnaround under the stewardship of Paul Martin, the country’s former prime minister and finance minister.



In general, Martin has received justifiable plaudits...

Welcome to our new video series titled "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today.



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The panelists discuss large complex financial institutions at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011. The speaker in this segment is Anat Admati, Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford University. The other panelists...

Prof. Sanjeev Goyal explains his general theory of network formation based on individual incentives, and their economic implications<br/>

We all know it: The financial sector is bloated and banks are too big to fail. But just how bloated is it, and how much should it be shrunk? Gerald Epstein and his collaborator James Crotty use both micro and macro data to deliver the...

This film looks at how social control in the Night-Time Economy of pubs and clubs is increasingly created and maintained by professional Bouncers rather than the police.

Interviewed by Institute President Rob Johnson, Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier — co-author of Europe and the Battle of Ideas — sees the fate of the embattled European union as depending on the outcome of a battle of ideas...

Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich compares the current Euro crisis with the US debt crisis in the 1840s, when the US had a common currency and a fully-fledged central government, and nine out of 27 US states defaulted. That crisis, he says, did...

Interview with Robert Kuttner

Whenever the question is raised about the appropriateness of the bailouts for our largest financial institutions during the most recent financial crisis, the usual response among people who defend the idea is to suggest that...

In 2008 a global financial meltdown was just barely contained. But Adam Tooze says that the crisis of confidence has had long aftershocks.
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Adam Tooze, Columbia University historian and author of the new book Crashed: How a...

For federal regulators, the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) of 2010 resembles an earthquake so massive that its aftershocks threaten to go on forever. The overarching purpose of this legislation is to end the perception that very large...

This is a video discussing the leverage ratio and its importance in measuring a bank's capital reserves relative to the loans it has taken on. The video discusses how the regulator sets a minimum leverage ratio for banks and how this...

The video is a detailed explanation of quantitative easing and its impact as an alternative monetary policy tool. The speaker starts by explaining the need for QE when banks have exhausted their ability to use the Bank rate to influence...

The video explains the concept of gearing ratio in finance. It defines non-current liabilities and capital employed, and shows how to calculate the ratio using a live example. It also discusses the impact of high and low levels of...

Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability, Bank of England, speaking at the breakout panel entitled "How Can We Create a Financial System That Is Socially Useful?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...

Discussion and Q&A at the breakout panel entitled "Instability in Financial Markets: Sources and Remedies" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 14, 2012. #inetberlin<br/>

Banks take on excessive risk since they know, in case of failure, the taxpayer will step in to rescue them. That is a form of free insurance, and Ed Kane wants to end it. To do so, he says, we need to put a number on systemic risk, the...

This video explores the significance of the Mekong River, Asia's most important waterway, and its role in sustaining communities across multiple countries. However, the video also raises concerns about the rapid development and...

This week on Blockchain Central: we will find out why bitcoin prices in some countries are so different compared to the rest of the world and explore if there's an opportunity to make money on it. __ 'Blockchain Central' is your #1...

Proprietary trading by Wall Street banks precipitated the 2008 financial crisis that resulted in a near 13 trillion dollar bailout by American taxpayers of Too Big To Fail financial institutions. As early as 2007, Morgan Stanley...