Sunday, November 20, 2011

Nov 13 2011: Boeing Hits it Big at the Dubai Air Show.

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Andrew Parker reports from the Dubai airshow that Boeing has won its largest order (estimated at $26bn) in its 95 year history. (The video ...

Entrepreneurs Come in Many Shapes, Especially in the Emerging Economies.

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In the U.S., eighty percent of job growth comes from small and medium sized businesses.  Forty years ago, when Antoine van Agtmael coined th...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Birth of Arbitrage

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Arbitrage is the simultaneous buying and selling of an asset in two separate markets to exploit a price difference. The Benchmarks Aren...
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The Birth of a New Acronym

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I know of an agency in Washington that thought its status diminished by having a FLA, so it used a TLA instead. ("What's that?...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Nabors CEO Eugene Isenberg's $100 Million Severance-Type Paymen

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MarketWatch asks "Is Shareholder Capitalism Working?"  MarketWatch columnist David Weidner and Mean Street host Evan Newmark discu...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Act II of the Olympus Drama

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From the Wall Street Journal, Olympus defends its deals, but the Chairman resigns and the Euro Zone Looks to Asia for bail out money.   I...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Tom Hoenig Nominated to Be the Vice Chair of the FDIC

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Wow! I do not know to what party Dr. Thomas Hoenig belongs, but he has been great on the FOMC (the Federal Open Market Committee that...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims Win the Nobel Prize for Economics

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Rational Expectations and the Ability to Distinguish Cause and Effect Empirically Macroeconomics has long been the theology of economi...
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Risks and opportunities for Brazil Brazil's central Bank has cut interest rates from high levels.   Two weeks before Brazil's ...