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...every reason to be scared because financial services have a record of retrenching fast in a crisis. And the business in some sectors has evaporated. The volume of mergers and acquisitions, for example, is down by about two-thirds from its peak in 2006, while the public stock offerings that made the London Stock Exchange a shooting international 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...
What we still don't know about the Storm is how fast and reliably it will connect with Verizon's 3G network. Network speed determines how fast Web pages or file attachments load onto your device. It's especially important for the Storm because it lacks wi-fi connectivity, a feature that had been inaccurately rumored in the blogosphere but which is absent from the final device. (Both the iPhone and the G1 are wi-fi enabled.) Given that Verizon's nationwide 3G network is much more extensive than what's offered by rivals AT&T and T-Mobile (carriers...
...Hodel Ramona, on holiday for the past week, were curious when asked about recent market volatility. They asked if the U.S.'s $700 billion bailout plan had passed. When told it had, Luca was almost Zenlike about the future. Good things take time, he said. "Everything bad happens fast." If the tourists are indicators, Wall Street symbols, at least, appear to be retaining their values...
...mess caused by fast-and-loose mortgage lending in the U.S. has now blown into a perilous global crisis of confidence that has revealed both the scale and the limitations of globalization. Finance is built on trust, and suddenly that trust has been replaced by fear: fear among depositors from Madrid to Macao over the safety of their money; fear among banks worldwide about lending to one another; and now fear among politicians, central bankers and regulators that they don't have adequate tools to fix the problem...
...Fast-forward a decade or so to my first real internship. Bringing first job jitters into this idiotic equation that is my approach to life, it was clear that any attempt at success in this new realm they call “the office” would be futile. For someone who sweats the simple stuff, a summer internship in midtown Manhattan is a veritable hell on earth. Life hands me lemons, and I can’t even figure out how to slice them...