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...York City and traveling to emerging markets, he built CSFB's project-finance business into the world's best, in part by encouraging corporations and governments to tap public debt markets in addition to commercial lenders. That strategy allowed the debtors to borrow for longer periods and reduce their short-term costs. When Ogunlesi's project-finance group absorbed several other divisions, a colleague produced T shirts that read, "I've Found Happiness in the Bayosphere...
Although there may be short-term reductions in air pollution as minor efficiency improvements are implemented, in the long-term the dirtiest and least efficient factories can continue polluting at current levels while making only those improvements that will increase their profits. The law is also destructive because it allows some smokestacks and machines to increase their emissions as long as the manufacturing plant overall remains below limits. In addition, changes to the Emissions Calculation Test Methodology will allow factories to use the highest-polluting 24-month period in the preceding decade as a measure of their actual emissions?...
Zoellick is wrong to call for more stringent patent protections, but simply loosening or removing patent restrictions is at best a short-term solution. Solving the health crisis in developing countries in the long run will require a radical shift in the role of government in medical research...
...bellied up to the bar last week and ordered a double. Greenspan & Co.'s decision to drop short-term interest rates by half a percentage point surprised Wall Street--which had expected a quarter-point cut--and brought rates to their lowest level in 41 years. That might help spur the economy by making it cheaper for businesses to borrow, but there's a downside. With inflation running at 1.8%, your bank savings or money-market fund yielding barely 1% is becoming a money loser. If you want safety with reasonable income, you'll have to get more creative...
...today's low-yielding bonds will fall. (It's that old formula: rates up, bonds down.) The parallels between today and 1993-94 may be instructive. Back then, a slow, jobless recovery and falling rates prompted many people to pile into long-term bonds--which typically yield more than short-term ones--and they got creamed when interest rates rose sharply...