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...tasked with overseeing currency exchange rates and providing funds and advice to nations suffering trade deficits, the IMF has watched its field of action wane as economies developed and globalized. As part of that evolution, financial trading began spanning borders and generating previously unimaginable transactions through highly-leveraged and complex derivatives - all within a virtually unregulated atmosphere that national governments couldn't manage to police. Sarkozy and his European partners hope that the Nov. 15 summit can come up with a scheme of common rules governing global finance - with the IMF possibly acting as the world regulator. Not everyone...
...London Stock Exchange an international shooting star have fizzled. Given the role played by arcane financial engineering in triggering the current crisis--the troubles at AIG, for example, stem largely from its freewheeling London financial-products division--the future looks especially bleak for people working in structured finance and complex derivatives. No surprise, then, that HSBC, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and others have started cutting staff...
...more regulated era--not so much a golden age as a golden cage. The debt-fueled days are almost certainly history. Jon Lloyd, joint head of LG's real estate practice, points out that the investment-banking mentality of the past few years--ever bigger fees for ever more complex transactions--has spread to all sorts of businesses, from law to real estate. He wonders if that's all about to change. "Will we as advisers fall back to where we were 10 to 15 years ago?" he asks. "The question is whether we are now entering a more frugal...
...star - strike an agreeable but uneasy artistic entente in the period drama Changeling. When the movie had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May, the two were instantly dubbed Clangelina, and they looked quite the handsome couple on the red carpet. But this bustling, complex picture is hobbled by something neither an Academy Award-winning director nor a seductive star can overcome: miscasting...
...while Kagan has mastered both complex changes (the new grading system) and simple ones (free coffee and a tiny-but-cute ice rink), none of her reforms has rippled as widely outside of academia as her move to force Harvard back into the lateral hiring market. Indeed, in her half-decade in office, Kagan has poached 20 tenured professors, among them University of Chicago professor Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most-cited law professor in the United States. Last year alone, six tenured professors accepted offers to come to Harvard...