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Arab banks are finding it harder to provide financing on their own for the often wildly ambitious real estate and development projects that had become commonplace in the region. "Every day you could open the newspaper and read about new mega-projects worth billions of dollars," says Nazem Al Kudsi...
It has become an article of faith for many on the left - and some from other political precincts - that the 1999 repeal of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial banks from Wall Street, is directly responsible for our current dire financial plight. Its repeal, argued journalist Robert...
She added, however, that students interested in finance may have to begin looking beyond traditional investment banks to smaller groups like hedge funds and venture capital firms or the finance arms of companies like Disney.
If Wall Street is hoping that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal will ride to the rescue of America's crumbling banks, here's the word from the Saudi billionaire: Thanks, but no thanks. Having bailed out Citicorp on a couple of occasions - most recently by helping in its recapitalization earlier this...
TIME: No more banks for you, then?