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Anil Kashyap is one of our leading researchers on banks.  His book with Takeo Hoshi on the evolution of the Japanese corporate finance is a must read on the twists and turns that built a great economy and then laid it low.  And he has many other papers and relevant recent commentary.

Professor Kashyap has a sharp perspective the administration’s financial sector reform thinking, in part because he has long worked alongside key people now at the National Economic Council (the NEC, by the way, has disappointingly little transparency; even Treasury is more open).

So we should take him seriously, writing Tuesday in the Financial Times, on the importance of the proposed new “funeral plans” for banks. Continue reading →