January 6th, 2009 at 10:05am
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ebrowning wrote an interesting post today on
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But the picture of Bernie Madoff sitting at home with his court-ordered ankle bracelet, slipping expensive cufflinks and watches into envelopes to mail to his sons and other relatives is just so weird. The assistant U.S. attorney in the case says he’s transferred more than $1 million in jewelry to relatives since he was freed on bail.
How many more compulsive shysters were among our wall street heroes of the last decade?
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January 6th, 2009 at 09:57am
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By Kelly Evans
In the American buying spree of recent years, the most profligate spenders were those under 35. As recently as 2006, for every $100 these Americans earned, they spent about $117. Those aged 35 to 55 had negative saving rates nearly as large. Only the large number of Americans 55 and older, who have always had high double-digit saving rates, kept the overall saving rate above zero, according to data from Moody’s Economy.com and the Federal Reserve.
“The idea that the American family will quickly spend us out of this recession is a fantasy. It won’t happen,” said Elizabeth Warren, a professor of law at Harvard University who last month was named chair of the Congressional oversight panel tasked with overseeing the distribution of the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program funds.
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January 6th, 2009 at 09:35am
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L’honnête homme peut trouver interressant, voir cocasse, d’assister à une conférence sur la finance et discuter avec des professionnels de la profession de manière informelle autour d’un cocktail.
Le premier objectif des auteurs est de présenter, de manière pédagogique, les techniques mathématiques les plus avancées tout en insistant sur l’utilisation pratique des instruments et la logique financière des marchés.
Leur second objectif est de couvrir de manière exhaustive l’ensemble de la finance de marché :
actifs primitifs (actions, taux d’intérêt et de change, indices, crédits bancaires),
produits dérivés vanille et exotiques (swaps, futures, options, hybrides et dérivés de crédit),
théorie et gestion des portefeuilles, appréciation et couverture des risques, fondements probabilistes de l’évaluation et risque de crédit.
Patrice Poncet et Roland Portait nous donneront également leur point de vue sur le rôle des marchés et les insuffisances du contrôle des Risques dans la transmission de la crise des subprimes.
En effet, le livre présente […]
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January 6th, 2009 at 09:29am
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chictype wrote an interesting post today on
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A GREAT RECIPE FOR THE NEW YEAR!
1-A: Work your Beyond Freedom!
1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
It is the ultimate anti-depressant.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Talk to God about
what is going on in your life. Buy a lock if you have to.
3-A: Work your Beyond Freedom!
3. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement,
‘My purpose is to__________ today. I am thankful for______________!’
4. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that
is manufactured in plants.
5-A: Work your Beyond Freedom!
5. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries,
wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli , almonds & walnuts.
6-A: Work your Beyond Freedom!
6. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
7. Don’t waste your precious […]
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January 6th, 2009 at 09:12am
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wealthyresources wrote an interesting post today on
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We are talking organization design in our blogs. Organizations are social units with specific purposes. The basic elements of organizations have remained the same over the years. Several disciplines provide the knowledge and the means to understand organizations. However, it is appropriate to look at organizations integrally in multi-disciplinary perspective. Three viewpoints have emerged, over the years in successive stages, each seeking to provide a window on the others. They are the classical approach, three streams stand out: bureaucracy, administrative theory and principles of scientific management. It is important to note that with the passage of time, the viewpoints have been changed or modified, but not replaced as such. Each major contribution brought new knowledge, awareness, tools and techniques to understand the organizations better.
Thus, today we are richer than ever before tin terms of our knowledge about approaches to understand organizations. We take example of portable DVD player. Today there […]
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January 6th, 2009 at 09:07am
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dannyp08 wrote an interesting post today on
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Again, few things give me more pleasure than to imagine the suffering of New York City real estate agents.
These people are the lowest form of professional life in the city, and that’s saying something in a town of Dick Fulds and Bernie Madoffs.
At any rate, CNBC reports:
[Super broker Dottie] Herman sees a possible price decline of 20 percent to 25 percent afflicting the entire Manhattan market in the first quarter.
While Clusterstock cites the Wall Street Journal:
But the average prices of units that are under contract but haven’t yet closed declined 20% since August 2008, a rapid reversal, according to Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers, which co-wrote one report with Prudential Douglas Elliman, one of the city’s largest residential real-estate firms. Those sales should close during the first quarter of 2009. A separate report by the Corcoran Group found that transactions in the fourth quarter fell by as much […]
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January 6th, 2009 at 09:05am
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Last night, my gf received a Capitol One credit card she’d applied for with a balance transfer. However, upon activating it, she found out that the card’s credit line was exactly the amount she’d requested be transferred from her American Express card, plus a transfer fee, therefore meaning Capitol One had issued her a maxed out and over-the-limit credit card before she’d even opened the envelope they sent it in. Now, she had no way of knowing this beforehand because credit companies don’t tell you what your credit line will be before they issue you the card, but any logical person would assume it would be more than the amount you are having transferred, right?
After four customer service reps at 11pm, they had all concluded that nothing could be done to help her. This means she now has three maxed out cards instead of the two maxed out cards she […]
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January 6th, 2009 at 08:56am
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Bill Richardson’s career in President Obama’s cabinet was mighty short. It never happened.
The New Mexico Governor withdrew from consideration as Commerce Sectretary after media noise about a Federal grand jury probe into at least one state contract. Since Mr. Richardson was on tap to handle Commerce in a crashing economy, questions about financial ethics would not do. While Team Obama’s vetting of Richardson left something to be desired, it is true that the ethical bar was raised recently thanks to inimitable Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
Information about this New Mexico legal investigation has been known since the summer but, frankly, many observers thought Mr. Richardson would not get nods for VP candidate or a cabinet post due to his reputation for personal over-familiarity and erratic and impulsive executive style, not because of the Federal probe.
But Blogojavich’s bleeps changed the rules. Reciprocity, cornerstone of social organization and animating priciple of the body politic, has been […]
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January 6th, 2009 at 08:37am
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Mike Licht wrote an interesting post today on
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Developing a Payment by Results tariff for mental health, Department of Health, November 2008
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Abstract:
Work continues on developing currencies for use in the commissioning of mental health services for adults of working age and older people. The ultimate goal is the creation of a national tariff for these currencies.
The project is now in the second stage (see reports from Stage 1 of the project below). Following the consultation Options for the Future of PbR 2008/09 to 2010/11, which highlighted mental health as a priority area for PbR development, the Care Pathways and Package Project approach of grouping service users into categories based on need has been accepted as the model we are pursuing nationally.
A number of sites are further developing the Care Pathways and Packages work. More details can be found in factsheet 4.
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January 6th, 2009 at 08:29am
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Housing Finance Companies India - get info on famous Housing Finance Companies in India.
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