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Unintended consequences
More from Edward Conard, on proprietary trading (2012-05-20)

You can buy Conard’s stimulating book, Unintended Consequences , here .  Conard, by the way, does object to how the government implicitly subsidizes the short-term debt of the major U.S. banks and he views that as the root of the problem behind proprietary trading, not the trading itself.

Why did the U.S. financial sector grow so large? (2012-05-19)

Edward Conard, author of Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy is Wrong , offers a hypothesis.  He suggests the underlying cause is the (relatively recent) prevalence of risk-averse foreign capital:

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