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...Neither the monster national players (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup) nor the regionals (PNC, M&T, et al) have had much to say about the economy’s effect on credit quality....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...For example, the top five lithium producers — Albemarle, Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium, Livent Corporation, SQM, Tianqi Lithium Corporation — have all faced allegations of corruption, tax avoidance or violating...
...Vicky Pryce: There is little chance of levelling up during 2021....
...Ruth Lea: If the chancellor follows through his policy of raising capital spending to 3 per cent of GDP (roughly an extra £20bn pa), allied with more for the NHS, there should be some fiscal support for...
...Unsurprisingly, Borio et al also find that the impact of a given decline in asset values is related to the amount of debt outstanding before the bust....
...Al-Shabaab is still sending young men on suicide missions in the capital it no longer controls....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...A judge in Regina v....
...You get the rental income, the chance to holiday there yourself and any capital uplift....
...al at a national level....
...The same is true at home....
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...By their nature, the benefits of spending, for example, on home insulation, are much more likely to stay local, where they are needed....
...Greed isn’t as good as we thought Back in the 1980s, the economist Al Rappaport captured the spirit of the times by devising a new goal for the corporation: the maximisation of shareholder value....
...Countrywide Financial Corporation, et al is ostensibly brought on behalf of purchasers of such CWALT, Inc. mortgage pass-through certificates, as well as various other mortgage-backed securities registered...
...FT: Through higher capital requirements?...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Which is to say, the NY Times article was certainly alarmist, but may not be – as MBIA et al would rather have you believe – so totally wrong....
...It operates in countries such as Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan, and last year set up a company in India to provide mortgages and home improvement loans for the poor....
...More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet....
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...During several years of strong capital markets and strong investor appetite for high-yielding securities, lenders became accustomed to easily selling the risky home loans they made to Wall Street banks....
...Most of the rest of our growth came from increased consumer demand financed primarily by maxed out credit card and second mortgages on homes....
...In their place in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, Ethiopia helped install an allied UN-backed transitional government....
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