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...Lastly, the government could make some regulatory changes and hope for the best. First of all, get rid of mark-to-market accounting. Some observers say it doesn't make sense for loans that are performing, and the banks have no intention of selling anyway...
...face of globalization, the strong tie between form and social function that Hoy experienced while in Kenya may prove instrumental in the struggle to preserve this art. “When certain vessels are critical to a religious or social structure, then they are much more difficult to get rid of,” Blier said...
...legal parlance, revolves around a phone conversation Cuban had in 2004 with Mamma.com's then CEO after the executive e-mailed Cuban to call as soon as possible. When Cuban did, he found out about the company's pending financing deal that would dilute existing shareholders. He promptly got rid of his shares before the information was made public...
...opinion, you might have to get rid of Jerry and part of the board to bring back Microsoft." - Activist Investor and Yahoo! shareholder Carl Icahn, after Yang turned down Microsoft's 2008 buyout offer (New York Times...
...change in hedge funds may not be entirely bad news for investors, either. According to NYU economist Brown, an industry shakeout could get rid of many undercapitalized or poorly managed funds, leaving remaining funds to consolidate. And the culling could even be healthy for the industry, says MIT's Lo, who draws an analogy from biology. "We've just seen a big meteorite hit," he says. "It will kill a number of species. But in the wake of that death, whole new species will arrive." As students of evolution know, the dinosaurs died to make way for something smarter...