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...role of proprietary trading - when banks buy and sell investments for their own accounts rather than their clients - and other principal investments in the financial crisis is getting new scrutiny. On Thursday, Feb. 4, the Senate Banking Committee held its second hearing in a week on President Obama's proposal to keep banks, which hold federally insured deposits, from engaging in such risky businesses as proprietary trading and hedge-fund and private-equity-fund investing (all three activities contain some element of trading or investing for the firm's own account, possibly employing leverage). Many have dismissed the so-called...
...from shampoo to groceries. Amazon's ability to cross-sell products to existing customers is powerful. "When you've got an account opened at Amazon and they have your credit-card information and they also happen to have some of the lowest prices, it's very easy to start buying on Amazon items that may be outside people's traditional products that they buy online," says Sebastian. "I've been buying diapers from Amazon - not just the books that I would have bought 10 years...
...academics and economists and even some Wall Streeters say proprietary trading and other principal investments played a much larger role in the losses that were at the heart of the financial crisis. What's more, if the firms had been barred from using their own money to buy mortgage bonds, much of the credit-and-housing bubble might not have been able to form...
...With our grant from DAPA, we used the money to buy flavored blood orange sodas,” says Amelia G. Mango ’10 who has been awarded grants on behalf of the Center for European Studies’ annual Garden Party and Ball. “I think DAPA fills a sort of unique need...
Today Gates is fighting to buy more of those Russian helicopters, considered the Kalashnikovs of the sky. The Iraqis and Afghans are familiar with them. They're hardy and easier to fly than Black Hawks, and their engines are better at handling the tough Afghan altitudes...