Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s Blog

At the G20summit this month it was agreed that global growth will require sound new global regulation of financial markets.  But what would it take to achieve such regulation?  We argue that nothing less than a new global architecture for the regulation of banking and finance is required to ensure success.  Such architecture comprises three [...]

It seems only yesterday that scarcity was the story. Energy and commodity prices were heading into the stratosphere. The oil was running out, food shortages loomed, Russia was resurgent and China was marching into Africa amid a scramble for dwindling resources.
Now? Prices everywhere are falling as recession bites. Investment banks have disappeared; and the global [...]