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Chidem Kurdas

Chidem Kurdas is a financial journalist, analyst and writer.

Throughout her career she has held numerous positions, including: Research Analyst at Thomson Reuters, New York Bureau Chief at HedgeWorld, News Editor at Infovest21, Senior Associate Editor at Medical Economics Publications at The Thomson Corporation. She is currently Editor at Opalesque Futures Intelligence.

She holds a PhD in Economics from New School University.

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Chidem Kurdas's Latest Articles | 54

Should Banks Just Buy Treasuries?

May 15, 2012| 

There’s a widespread impression that the $2 billion-plus trading loss JP Morgan Chase (JPM) announced a few days ago strengthens the case for more regulation of... Read »

European Austerity in Perspective

May 1, 2012| 

Attempts to rein in government spending necessarily have unpleasant side effects.  Thus the Dutch government collapsed amid budget talks to control the deficit.... Read »

Big Bank Breakup or Tea Party?

Apr 4, 2012| 

We’ve been going back and forth on the economics of too-big-to-fail banks but paying less attention to the politics. The most recent ThinkMarkets broadside on... Read »

Politics of Oil Prices

Mar 13, 2012| 1

Oil from North Dakota is selling at a record discount, according to a March 1st news item in the local paper, the Bismarck Tribune.   By contrast, here in New... Read »

Big Bank Obesity Conundrum

Mar 5, 2012| 

Is the Federal Reserve a hotbed of trustbusters? Fed officials (as well as some academics) have been calling for forcible downsizing of big banks . “I am of the... Read »

Obama’s State of Regulation

Jan 27, 2012| 

Barack Obama sounded a number of themes in his 2012 State of the Union Address this week, all underpinned by the proposition that socioeconomic ills can be solved... Read »

Why Public Policy Is Inconsistent

Jan 20, 2012| 

Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, says regulatory policy is working against economic recovery and as such is contradictory. His complaint is about... Read »

Capitalism Loses Against Chimera

Jan 11, 2012| 

Gripes about capitalism go back 150 years and more. In the Communist Manifesto of 1848 Marx and Engels thundered that the specter of revolution haunted Europe,... Read »

Future of Forecasts

Dec 28, 2011| 

‘Tis the season for predictions. Pundits offer conjectures on every conceivable subject, though accumulating evidence in recent years has established, as much... Read »

Menace to Savings and Small Businesses

Dec 21, 2011| 

As the old adage goes, be careful what you ask for, you might just get it. After the 2008 crisis it became fashionable to complain that too much trading is going... Read »

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