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Several prominent bank analysts came out with statements yesterday saying that the largest U.S. financial firms would post more heavy losses and that their accounting methods would obscure the worst of it. George Soros, the grand old man of the hedge fund business, repeated his belief that the banks are...
The reason for all of this fighting is that there is a disagreement concerning the fundamental values of the U.S. money center banks. It has become a sign of sophistication for an institutional stock picker to say that a company's stock value is zero. Recently, there have been research...
Now it is China's turn to show it's no pushover. In the G-20 run-up, Zhou Xiaochuan, China's central bank governor, published a paper suggesting that alternative global currencies, like Special Drawing Rights - a unit of exchange used by the International Monetary Fund - be considered to...
If the Budget estimates are wrong, so are the "stress test" assumptions for the government's new program to determine which banks are in reasonable shape to make it through the recession and which are not. The test is based on unemployment reaching as high as 10%. If the number...
For students, the economic downturn has caused anxiety about the present and the future. Many undergraduates who once took for granted that their summer plans would include a high-paying internship in finance or management consulting have been forced to reconsider their futures—not only is recruitment of...