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...trading and creating capital, then they do not really exist as capital markets any more. With the economy in such tough shape discouraging traders from creating liquid markets or the credit default swaps market from efficiently insuring risk may do more to hurt a system that is trying to build new capital more than it helps...
...reasonable goal is to build liquidity without substantially increasing government regulation and the number of government people needed to monitor that regulation, the alternative is simply to enforce the rules that already exist...
...will take years to create new regulations and build and staff new regulatory agencies. In the meantime, the current crisis will have passed. In Geithner's mind he is doing something for future generations which might face a financial crisis if it were not for his proactive efforts now. But, the whole process of re-regulating the financial system will never be much better than the diligence of the people who run the companies which are regulated...
...Anyway, many of the new plants will never be built, and shouldn't be built, because of a second problem: Once again, nuclear power is turning out to be way more expensive than originally advertised. The plants are cheap to operate, but unbelievably costly to build; estimates for new plants have doubled and even tripled over the last year or two. One recent study priced new nuclear generation at 25-30 cents per kilowatt-hour; new wind power comes in around 7 cents, about the same as coal, and investments designed to reduce electricity consumption through more efficient appliances, lighting...
...some ways, Chen's trial is a positive sign that the justice system is alive in the Chinese world's sole democracy. But as the figurehead of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which was founded to build democracy and fight corruption, his family's scandals have brought the party down, and DPP politicians have tried to distance themselves from the scandal - and the man himself...