Step 1:For God's sake, relax! Everyone is so uptight right now that we can't even think. We will only get out of this mess by thinking, not by reacting prematurely with adolescent measures and childish pronouncements. Step 2:Suspend all further Treasury loans to Wall Street...
The more things change, the more they seem the same. As the January 12 edition of The New York Times reminded us, Hollywood is in a race for digital 3-D movies in a feverish hope that the new system will beat out bad memories of...
In her article on the RGE Monitor Web site, R&R's Ann Rutledge discusses two myths that she sees offered as fact in a recent position paper by the Financial Economists Roundtable, "Reforming the Role of the Statistical Ratings Organizations in the Securitization Process." Myth 1:...
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo, we now have the official (more or less) tally of the year's top ten films. What does this top ten list tell us?The Dark Knight -- $530.8 million (estimated budget $185 million)Iron Man -- $318.3 million (estimated budget...
With Warner Brothers' recent decision to cut their ties with the production of low budget films, 2008 is widely seen as the year that independent filmmaking died. However, this obituary may be a tad premature. The truth of the situation is that Hollywood's love affair...
Recently the Financial Economists Roundtable (FER) posted a summary of their thinking in July 2008 on Reforming the Role of Statistical Rating Organizations [SROs] in the Securitization Process. The FER is a group of senior financial economists who advance the study of finance and frame...
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"The mistaken notion that Moody's was a company like any other, that was very fundamental," said Sylvain Raynes, a former Moody's analyst who is co-founder of R&R Consulting, a firm that helps investors gauge debt risks. "It is not just a profit-maximization entity like Exxon...
The Securities and Exchange Commission's long-awaited new rules for bond rating agencies will do little to alter the practices that helped lead to the financial crisis, experts claimed…. "The market has barely taken note of the SEC action because its impact is so limited," said...
My recent post on the sorry state of financial engineering seems to have touched a raw nerve in the FE community. I will not attempt to respond to anonymous comments since the US Constitution gives every citizen the right to look his accusers in the eye....