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...You, a rube like Alphaville, may have noticed the looming economic downturn and think it’s a bad time to be lending to fast-growing but asset-lite Vapourware Inc owned by investment firms FaceRip Street...
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...Then, with months to go before $1.2bn of mortgage payments fell due in February 2019, the Kushners won a reprieve — one that looked nothing like a favour from a foreign state....
...Here’s a chart from a 2019 paper by Michael Rosenfeld et al. to demonstrate: Note the spike in “met in bar or restaurant” alongside the spike “met online”....
...Feldman et al. argue that the tax data they use should allay these concerns:Public and private corporations face identical legal requirements to report taxable income, dispatching the concern that observed...
...(Financial Times) Iraq’s prime minister Nouri al-Maliki struggled to maintain his grip on power with a Sunni insurgency swirling around the capital and political rivals inside Baghdad’s fortified Green...
...Kate argues that Verleger’s view of a hypothetical Saudi et al response to lower prices and/or production is compelling, in that it doesn’t follow that more prolific US oil supply will mean lower global...
...Mr Buffett’s popularity allows him to play a role as someone apart from the Wall Street machine....
...Related links: SEC V. TREVOR G. COOK, PATRICK J. KILEY, ET AL, Case No. 09 CV 3333 – SEC Litigation release...
...Because quasi-ownership through having funded the Tarp, PPIP et al wasn’t enough for the US taxpayer, who one must also assume is canny enough to make risk-reward assessments of the type so successfully...
...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....
...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)....
...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...
...Shame Michael Moore et al were not listening to him back then....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Luckily for Fred Goodwin et al, this fashion is unlikely to catch on in Britain....
...Entertainment was provided by British comedian Al Murray and a colourful troupe of can-can dancers....
...But it may comfort Greenspan et al: after all, the more that traders use electronic systems, the less they need to use 19th century technologies, such as paper. So can we all relax? Not entirely....
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