Once more the guns of America have roared across the land, leaving a trail of bodies, blood, tears and the terrible acknowledgment of our national heritage. We're a gun-totin' culture, partner, and it ain't just the cowboys who are drawing on each other. Parents are...
Ticket sales are booming, and Hollywood is the economic wunderkind of the current recession.If the Variety report is to be believed, that was the direction that Dan Glickman, CEO and chair of the Motion Picture Association of America, was headed toward while presenting at the...
Yes, the internet stampede is on. Like the Oklahoma Land Rush, everyone is racing into the vast wilderness of cyberspace. Netflix has already unveiled their system for downloadable movies. Now Blockbuster is entering the field while Warner Bros plans to release 150 titles from the...
"'Banks can pay bonuses without eroding capital if they were funded from profitable trades that were settled through financing provided by the government to AIG,' said Sylvain Raynes, a derivative consultant in New York and author of The Analysis of Structured Securities."Read the full article:...
At this very moment, throughout this great land of ours, ordinary people dwelling far away from the chaotic nonsense known as Wall Street are probably wondering how so much money could be wasted by so few people -- people who, in fact, live in another...
The March 20 edition of The Wall Street Journal quotes R&R's Ann Rutledge calling for rating agencies to develop new ways to rate debt as they benefit from the government's bailout program:"[Rating agencies] are still paid for their ratings by the companies whose bonds they...
R&R's Sylvain Raynes was interviewed by Joe Soucheray on station KSTP in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 18, for his views on the AIG bailout. Listen to the podcast on KSTP's Web site. Sylvain Raynes's part of the discussion comes about three-quarters of the way...
As far as Hollywood is concerned, the most important person in the country is the mythic white male teenager who lives in his parents' basement, reads comic books, plays video games, has no significant social life, and goes to movies as an alternative to the...
"The system was undermined by asking the American people, under the veil of secrecy, to bail out one company when in fact they wanted to bail out someone else," said Sylvain R. Raynes, an authority in structured finance and a founder of R & R...
There are many ways to create a quantifiable measure of a movie's economic prospects. There are various means of mapping and figuring data from box office reports, budgetary figures, past financial indicators, ad infinitum. After a while, this stuff is almost easy.Then there are the...