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Ezzeddine's exact connection to Hizballah is unclear. The organization denied having an official relationship with him, but Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah has acknowledged that the group was being tainted by association, saying he would mount an investigation to account for investor losses. But many investors have said Hizballah officials not only encouraged them to put their money and trust in Ezzeddine but also claimed that his investments were halal, acceptable according to Muslim laws that forbid profiting from interest (which they equate with usury). (See pictures of Hizballah's youth movement: the Mahdi Scouts...
Wall Street is growing more optimistic: Moody's Investor Services recently raised the company's credit rating two notches, to Caa1, its first upgrade in 14 years. "The rating actions reflect Moody's belief that after a period of intensive restructuring of its operations and balance sheet, Ford's business viability has significantly improved," Moody's report notes...
...loaded spring ready to uncoil upon another bit of bad news, or is the investor-anxiety balloon finally deflating...
...system: as money increasingly functions as electronic blips shuttling from screen to screen in speculative transfers, it becomes divorced from its effects in the real world and less reflective of actual wealth. The result, he says, has been bad for our economy, the planet and the individual investor. The antidote, according to Tasch, is expressed in the subtitle of his book, Inquiries Into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Farms, Food, and Fertility Matter...
...what about the "slow" part? For the investor looking to realize returns, will you ever get there? Yes, says Mark A. Finser, Founder/General Partner of TBL Capital in Sausalito, CA. As a "snapshot of a short period of time" the conventional investment model may look good, but "I fundamentally believe that in the long run there will be better returns" with Slow Money type investments, he says. This is particularly true, he adds, when "we look at investing as an extension of our lives and values." He notes that RSF Social Finance, which invests in enterprises committed to improving society...