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An economist and his friend come upon a $100 bill. As the friend reaches to pick it up, the economist says, "Don’t bother; if it were a genuine $100 bill, someone would already have picked it up." — Andrew Lo, The efficient market hypothesis Economics … has not … come to grips with … the inordinate practical importance of a few extreme events. — Benoit Mandelbrot Anything that can't go on forever won't. — Herb Stein The efficient market hypothesis says that the stock market is always fairly priced, that the price of a stock is the best guess about its value given current information. But too many traders and ...
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The global financial crisis may have ravaged banks in the West, but look East for a different story, The Associated Press says. In Asia, banks are bruised but not collapsing. Governments havent had to resort to massive bailouts. And some are even expanding while their Western counterparts fold, another sign that the worlds economic center of gravity may be shifting east. Their resiliency, however, and the regions ambitions to become the worlds next financial leader face major tests ahead. Volatile equity markets are eroding bank assets, the global slump is battering Asias export-driven ... Read More
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was still going strong, Bernard L. Madoff was a sought-after money manager and subprime mortgages had just caught the attention of regulators. Since then, the biggest trading fraud in history has been dwarfed by other financial crises. But Mr. Kerviel’s rogue bets, which cost Société Générale almost 5 billion euros, were in some ways a harbinger of what was to come, The New York Times’s Katrin Benhold and Nicola Clark write . The former trader, charged with breach of trust, forgery and unauthorized use of the bank’s computer system, faces up to five years in prison and a fine of 375,000 euros, or $449,000, in a trial that ...
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As the dates for the G8 and G20 summits approach you may be wondering what they are, when they're happening and what cast of characters will descend on Toronto and Huntsville in the weeks to come. Here's a short primer including some of the salient history, agenda items, points of opposition and related background reading on the upcoming G8 and G20 summits and why they matter. A brief history The Group of Eight consists of the United States, United Kingdom, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia. The G8 meetings were designed to be informal working meetings to discuss issues of mutual international ...
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of the current financial crisis reflects the failure of an economic and regulatory philosophy that proved increasingly influential in policy circles during the past three decades. This philosophy, guided more by theory than historical experience, held that private financial institutions not insured by the government could be largely trusted to manage their own risks—to regulate themselves. The crisis has suggested otherwise, particularly since several of the least regulated parts of the system (including non-bank mortgage originators and the major broker-dealer Bear Stearns) were among the first to run into trouble. Former ...
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On October 2, the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced a Hearing on Regulation of Hedge Funds scheduled for Thursday, November 13, 2008. The focus is on the causes and impacts of the financial crisis on Wall Street, and the Committee will hear from hedge fund managers who have earned over $1 Billion. The underlying premise of these hearings was expressed by Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, who wrote on September 26 “Because of the extraordinary greed of American financiers and businessmen, they invent all kinds of ways to make huge sums of money. We cannot forget ...
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The dominant theme of the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is fear of instability and change, which the act suppresses by subjecting the largest financial firms to banklike regulation. The competitiveness, innovativeness, and risk taking that have always characterized U.S. financial firms will, under this new structure, inevitably be subordinated to supervisory judgments about what these firms can safely be allowed to do. But the worst element of this system is that the extraordinary power given to regulators--and particularly the Federal Reserve--is likely to change the nature of the U.S. ...
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Nov 21, 2009 ... Financial Crises and Risk Management. Subsection 2: Managing Market and Credit Risks (4.5 hours). 1. What causes foreign currency exposure? ...
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Feb 27, 2010 ... Lessons from the Financial Crisis for Risk Management. *. Anil K Kashyap. University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and NBER ...
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Accounting (8), Auditing (6), Budgeting (1), Mergers and Acquisitions (1), Risk Management (1), Contracts (1), Business Development (1), Career Management (1), Business Plans (1) As the amount of debt increases, the risk of the firm follows proportionally. Risk and cost flow along the same lines, the more risky the firm is (i.e., the more assets are leveraged toward the debt) the less the firm is worth the higher the debt to ensure an adequate rate of return. Thus as debt increases, the WACC increases. Some of you miss the point, what actually happens to a company's WACC the more debt is taken on? That is the question, ...
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