Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Sheila Bair, Financial Reform, and Fannie and Freddie: Of Sound and Fury

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President Obama has signed into law the Dodd Frank financial reform law.  The most needed provision of the new law is its authority to res...
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Farnborough, Jobs, and Wichita

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Wichita's unemployment rate is 8.0 percent. The national recovery is starting to come to us. Wichita's unemployment rate was 8....
Monday, June 14, 2010

Can a company be more credit-worthy than its government?

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In this June 10 2010 video, the Financial Times investment editor, James Mackintosh explains that in 2008, McDonald's became more credi...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

The Balance-Sheet Recession

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The CFA Institute is holding it conference in Boston. The Wall Street Journal reporter, Donna Kardos Yesalavich, speaks with Nomura Research...
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Sunday, June 06, 2010

Banks and Risk

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The Economist walks through how financial institutions misread the risks they were taking, and were more vulnerable than they imagined in...

Stephen Roach: Unconscionable Policy Blunders

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Stephen Roach, t he chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia on the bittersweet taste of vindication and China's role in the economic crisis:

Myron Scholes on Financial Innovation and Regulation

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Myron Scholes is a Nobel Laureate for his work in financial innovation, the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Gr...

The Economist on the The German Economy

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What China Sees as Its Borders are not What its Neighbors See Them

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In this video the Economist reviews the history that has led to s uspicions between China and its neighbors that bedevil its boundaries to ...