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Once again it's about the economy, stupid - and financial markets and how they are best regulated. There will also be discussion of whether anyone on Wall Street will be forced to pay a price for the wreckage taxpayers are now being told they will have to clean up. That shift should benefit Democratic nominee Barack Obama for many reasons, as economics in difficult times rarely help Republicans. But this race has proved conventional wisdom wrong time and again. What seems more certain is this: though virtually no one was calling for it, a new era of big government...
Banks also learned lessons from the 1997-98 financial crisis, which was partly caused by weak risk management. Lenders haphazardly tossed money at conglomerates for questionable industrial projects and property investments, and they chased high-yield, high-risk investments around the globe. But they paid the price in bank and finance company failures. In August 1997 Thailand closed 42 finance companies, Indonesia closed 16 banks two months later, and South Korea closed 14 merchant banks in December 1997, according to Merrill Lynch. Others were sold or merged. Those that survived cleaned up their act. Credit analysts are more thoroughly trained...
...pensions funds and insurance companies), wasn't that it was losing value but rather that so much money was being withdrawn. The fund was going to be forced to dump a big block of its holdings, and flooding the market like that has the effect of driving down security prices - thereby driving down the value of the fund you want to keep at $1 per share. "The investors are almost as important as the investments here," says Peter Crane, money fund expert and CEO of Crane Data. "A full-blown run would be perilous." That's why the Treasury stepped...
...approach to resolving the bad-debt problems at the heart of the current financial crisis. Systematic apparently sounds good - the Dow jumped 400 points after CNBC first reported Thursday that such an effort was in the works, and on Friday, markets around the world opened sharply higher. But the price tag could be steep. "We're talking hundreds of billions," Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson said at a press conference Friday morning. "This needs to be big enough to make a real difference and get at the heart of the problem." The more alarmist economists are saying the cost of resolving...
...fear of becoming a sleazy expat who takes everything at face value, I have held my nose, dived into the smog, and tried to find an authentic experience in a city that’s about as real as Vegas or Dubai.“This is my lowest price, I can go no lower, I could be killed, I cannot feed my family for any lower price,” the owner of a shop once said to me with tears welling in her eyes. I looked at the knock-off shoes I was bargaining for, sighed, and paid...