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...Equity market declines are having a negative impact on the capital adequacy ratio of major banks," says Shinichi Ina, bank analyst at Credit Suisse Japan. "It will get worse in the short term because the other sectors are in severe situations, making it difficult for banks as lending amounts shrink and credit costs increase." But the new offerings have their risk. Large public shareholdings made banks vulnerable to market fluctuations during Japan's lost decade - after the real-estate and banking bubble burst in the 1990s - and the government intervened to buy shares to prevent further bank losses...
...trip was designed to allow Harvard faculty and administrators to benefit from the experience gained by our colleagues at Yale and Princeton, who have already launched their own house renewal projects,” said Quincy House master Lee Gehrke. Yale has been in the middle of a long-term renovation of its 12 residential Colleges which has cost hundreds of millions of dollars and lasted almost 20 years. And Princeton spent $100 million constructing Whitman College, one of its six residential colleges, in 2007. One issue explored over the trip was that concerning “swing space...
Despite the silence, the locals feel that, by itself, Obama's brief 22-hour visit spoke volumes - and more importantly reflected the islands' ethos and culture. Take the nickname he uses for his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. It's short for tutu, the Hawaiian term for grandmother. And, to the islanders, it means that even though Obama may be the U.S. senator from Illinois, he really is at heart a Honolulu-born, son of Hawai'i who will drop anything to care for his family, says another Hawaii-born politician, Democratic state Sen. Clayton Hee. "It is all at once...
Walker is more optimistic - and determined. The current economic turmoil, he says, could serve as the best warning yet to policymakers and the public of more long-term problems fast approaching. "It's important that the federal government deal with the immediate but start taking steps to be able to defuse our fiscal time bomb so we can avoid what I refer to as a super subprime crisis associated with the federal government's finances down the road," said Walker. "We need to start making progress on multiple fronts at once." (See pictures of the week here...
...bleak economic situation has prompted Pakistan to desperately seek aid from such long-term allies as Saudi Arabia, Britain, the U.S. and China. Despite Zardari flying to those countries in recent weeks to make his case, he has yet to secure the loans needed to avoid a default on Pakistan's debt. Pakistani officials insist that they have no intention of defaulting, and the Pakistani rupee rose this week amid signs that the International Monetary Fund might step in to rescue this frontline state in the war on terror. The IMF confirmed Wednesday that it would soon enter discussions with...