Tag: shadow banking system

economics

The crisis in unregulated financial markets

Observe that the unregulated Credit Default Swap market is now working just fine, despite handling gigantic money flows, such as the failure of the Icelandic banks, that shake other markets, despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that more highly regulated markets have frozen up. What went wrong in a short while ago in unregulated markets was that  people in an unregulated market would look at a highly regulated participant …