{"id":8420,"date":"2013-06-19T23:24:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T21:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2013-06-20T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T06:50:41","slug":"is-eu-us-trade-deal-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/is-eu-us-trade-deal-a-good-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Is EU-US Trade Deal a Good Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whatever your view of the right level of loss-absorbing equity capital in the U.S., the European numbers are alarming. Deutsche Bank\u00a0does worst, with a Basel III leverage ratio of 2 percent (up only slightly after recent capital raising), while Society Generale SA\u00a0is at 2.7 percent, and BNP Paribas is at 3.3 percent. (Their Basel III Tier 1 common equity ratios are much closer to the U.S. levels thanks to risk-weighing calculations\u00a0that are deeply flawed. \u00a0Simon Johnson comments in Bloomberg.\u00a0 Is Trade Deal Between US and EU a Good Idea<\/a><\/p>\n

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Whatever your view of the right level of loss-absorbing equity capital in the U.S., the European numbers are alarming. Deutsche Bank\u00a0does worst, with a Basel III leverage ratio of 2 percent (up only slightly after recent capital raising), while Society … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t