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...question remains whether, as Lehman begins the forced selling of its more troubled assets, that will drive prices for some real estate securities down so far that other firms land in trouble as well. Merrill Lynch North American economist David Rosenberg predicts that Lehman's demise will begin a long, painful process of unraveling trillions of dollars in derivatives "to identify how big the potential losses are and where they are being held...
...residents of Beijing and Bangalore. The percentage of Indonesia's population living below the poverty line in 1996 was 17.1%, according to the government. There was little improvement by July 2008, when 15.4% of the population lived in poverty. "Indonesia's potential is there," says Luiz de Mello, an economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, "but they don't deliver...
...corruption, a capricious legal system and local suspicion of foreign companies, which are often viewed as carpetbaggers rather than investment partners. Not that Indonesia is a complete pariah to outside investors. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased in recent years as the economy has improved. But reform is required, economists say, if Indonesia is to become more competitive regionally and globally. China in 2007 attracted seven times more FDI than Indonesia, India almost twice as much. Indonesia "has to be at par with what its neighbors are doing," says Ifzal Ali, chief economist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila...
...making announcements on Sunday--just before the markets open for the week in Asia. "I suspect this is the first case where foreign central banks exercised their leverage as creditors to push the U.S. government to make a policy decision that protected their interests," wrote Brad Setser, an economist at the Council on Foreign Relations who closely tracks capital flows. One suspects it won't be the last...
...Sept. 11 story, "City May Donate to Shady Hill Effort" misstated the field of Simon Kuznets. Kuznets was not a poet, but a Nobel Prize winning economist...