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Short sellers borrow stock and sell it, essentially betting that the price of their target company will fall before they have to replace the borrowed shares. They have been disparaged as vultures, rumor mongers, cheats and criminals. But they have not, by and large, been wrong in their choice of targets. Bear and Lehman died because they were undercapitalized. Merrill's own mismanagement helped to chase it into the arms of B of A. Yet in the case of AIG, the argument is that the company would have remained afloat had its stock price not been driven down, which triggered...
...think of the D90 as a great camera that does a very cool and occasionally useful parlor trick. Perfect for shooting snippets of the kids playing soccer, not so good for shooting the entire school play. But as a still camera, its price ($999.95 without a lens, or $1,299.95 as a kit with a Nikkor 18-mm to 105-mm image-stabilization lens) is hard to beat...
Economic gloom is the trademark of most newspaper headlines as of late. Oil prices rise and fall, but bear bad omens either way. The housing market continues to deflate. And in the midst of it all, a number of Wall Street’s most venerable institutions are disintegrating. No matter the cost to American taxpayers, and no matter what the path of one’s economic thinking, it is clear that in the case of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and, now, American International Group (AIG), the Federal Reserve did what it needed to do to protect everyday...
David A. Andelman ’66 is the Editor of World Policy Journal and a former New York Times and CBS News correspondent. His latest book is “A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today (Wiley...
...after June 30, commodities markets dropped precipitously, by almost 30 percent, from their all-time highs—according to Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index—potentially reversing some endowment gains. Much of this was due to a substantial fall in the price of oil, which peaked at $147 per barrel but has been trading closer to $100 in recent days...