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...Left out of the conversation about bank values are the actual prices of the stocks. It has been the standard proxy of value for decades and there is little reason to change this now. Experts will say that bank stocks were too high two years ago when they traded at their all-time highs. The financial results at the companies were pretty good then. When investors caught on that the party was over, they cut the market values of many of the companies by more than 95%. And, they did it quickly. A perfectionist would argue that investors should have...
...stock down by less than 5% yesterday. That means a lot of investors gave the alarmists little credence. Maybe they want to see Citi's first quarter earnings before they decide what the bank is worth. Since the stock is down from over $55 less than two years ago, no one is assuming that the bank is going to earn billions of dollars for the quarter. The question is probably how few billion it will lose...
...wants to take on the issue of "how much money is going to be enough." The amounts by which all of the current programs to stimulate the economy, underwrite the banking system, and help millions of people with mortgages is so much larger that was planned just three months ago that it is not realistic to think that the Congress will provide another enormous infusion of funds or that the Treasury has the capacity to borrow them...
...These professors ditched The Federalist Papers for Excel spreadsheets years ago. Initially, political scientists studied how institutions shaped human behavior. American scholars, in particular, examined the Constitution’s influence on legislators. In the 1950s, however, “behavioralists,” led by Robert Dahl, revolted. Human behavior shaped institutions, they argued, so political science could predict future events by analyzing motivations, which seemed more useful than quaint debates over checks and balances...
...fighting over the weekend and that the Tamil separatist fighters are now confined to a narrow coastal stretch a little more than seven miles long in northern Sri Lanka - a far cry from the vast swaths of eastern and northern Sri Lanka controlled by the insurgents just two years ago. And eight military divisions with as many as 50,000 personnel backed by air support are going in for the kill, with escape and supply routes by sea blocked off by a naval blockade. (Watch TIME's video of civilians caught in the Sri Lankan civil...