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On Tuesday, the cash-depleted FDIC hatched a plan to require banks to prepay three years of quarterly fees. The FDIC expects to quickly generate $45 billion in cash, an amount it normally would've had to wait years to get its hands on. But in a quirk of accounting...
"It all works out nicely if the prepayment actually covers what the FDIC needs for the next three years," says veteran bank analyst Ed Narjarian of the ISI Group. "But more than likely, the FDIC is going to be back for more before the three years are out."
Let's zoom in to the level of the individual. How do you approach investing differently, knowing what you do about the psychology of decision-making? One theme is contemplating different outcomes and attaching probabilities to those. There is this notion called the inside-outside view. The inside view, which...
Powazek e-mailed about 70 Australian photographers to tell them he was assembling a magazine and ask if they would like to be involved. They weren't offered any compensation - and only one turned him down. Powazek laid the photos out using Adobe InDesign, put together an introduction and sent...
It turns out that just three mechanisms combine to explain both activities. The first is our propensity to continue repeating a task once we've started: "Once you send one e-mail or write one letter, you tend to do another," says Malmgren. The second is our circadian sleep-wake...