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Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Roubini Global Economics: Navigating towards Bretton Woods 3?


“… it is hard to argue that the large global imbalances that arose a few years ago had no role whatsoever in the current global synchronized recession. However, so far, global imbalances do not seem to be on even the long-term agenda of most of those trying to remake the global financial system,” argues Nouriel Roubini and his team in this thought-provoking article.

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Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Paul Kasriel: Preferred equity into common equity – accounting alchemy?


“Treasury’s plan to enhance the capitalization of some financial institutions by beating preferred equity shares into common equity shares is accounting alchemy,” said Paul Kasriel. This guest posts provides his motivation.

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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Sell in May and go away: fact or fallacy?


Does the axiom “Sell in May and go away” have any scientific basis at all? This post offers an analysis.

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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Animation: Recession Sing-A-Long!


The classic “West Side Story” is enjoying its Broadway revival. Now comes the remix, “Worst Slide Story.”

Source: Walt Handelsman, Newsday, April 13, 2009.
 
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