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One of them is a decrease in lending, and another is an increase in trading—particularly the kind of rapid-fire computerized trading that now makes up about half of all US stock market activity.13
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
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“The received wisdom is that risk increases in the recession and falls in booms. In contrast, it may be more helpful to think of risk as increasing during upswings, as financial imbalances build up, and materializing in recessions.”
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“Or to use the unbundling theme, globalization’s third unbundling is likely to allow labor services to be physically unbundled from laborers.”
― The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
― The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
“Given the high cost of moving ideas, the resulting spatial dispersion of production dampened innovation—both on the demand side and supply side.”
― The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
― The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
“Countrywide was an early adopter of information technology to process applications. By the mid-1990s, fully 70 percent of loans passing through its automated underwriting system required no human intervention.”
― Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History
― Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History
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