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...Restoring it is now vital. Part of that responsibility lies with the lenders themselves. "Banks need to know their business," said John McFall, chairman of Britain's Treasury Select Committee, during a recent debate on trust and financial markets organized by the Fabian Society, a left-leaning London think tank. In future, bosses ought to know their CDOs from the CDSs, McFall said, and not leave such understanding to the banks' "35-year-old Ph.D.s." Reining in sky-high bonuses, boosting capital reserves and sharpening risk management won't do any harm to public trust, either...
...comers regardless of political affiliation—a rarity in a country often torn by political disagreements. Yesterday’s barbeque was funded by a grant from MASA, an Israeli program that helps students find jobs, internships, and study abroad opportunities in Israel, said AEPi member Fabian A. Poliak ’11. “Israel is an important place for Jewish people,” said AEPi President Samuel M. Gross ’10, explaining why he valued the celebration of Israeli Independence Day. “It’s great for people...
...join the participants for the full 10 days, whereas on most other trips, soldiers are only present for a few days.“Those guys made the trip very fun and provided an insiders’ look. They lived there, those were their streets,” said Fabian A. Poliak ’11 who went on the Harvard Hillel trip last spring. If it wasn’t for the soldiers’ presence, said Poliak, “it would just be a group of American Jews in an isolated bubble and it would be hard...
...both Ohio and Kentucky - and the Long Island Power Authority in New York, which also sold bonds that day - paid much more of a premium over Treasuries than they would have before the credit crunch began in the summer of 2007, says Matt Fabian, managing director at Municipal Market Advisors. Ohio, for instance, is paying almost 1 percentage point more in yield for 20-year bonds than it did a year ago. "Maybe this is the new normal," says Fabian...
...Mutawa wants to spread the word farther. The first of six planned theme parks based on The 99 will open in Kuwait this October, and Mutawa hopes that an animated television show will hit airwaves around the world by late 2010. Working with writers such as Fabian Nicieza, who wrote for the Power Rangers and X-Men comics, and a group of managers including an ex-Rolling Stone publisher and Marvel's former marketing chief, Mutawa believes The 99 can succeed in non-Islamic markets. "Our characters are appealing to kids across the world," he says. "We have been able...