blogs.ft.com - 4/13/2009
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Useless finance
A derivative is a contingent claim whose payoff depends on the performance of some other financial instrument or security. For instance, an American equity call option gives the purchaser of the call the right (but not the obligation) to buy a share of equity from the issuer or ...
moneyning.com - 4/13/2009
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moneyning.com —
This is the 200th edition of the Carnival
of Personal Finance and all I can say is
“Wow”. It’s truly amazing that week after week, so many of you are able to spend some time to write quality articles in the personal finance space to help people achieve financial independence. ...
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Carnival of Personal Finance #200 - Edition of Mini ...
mitworld.mit.edu - 4/14/2009
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mitworld.mit.edu —
There will be a time “beyond crisis,” asserts
Robert C. Merton , who delves into the dense
science of derivatives -- a field he has fundamentally shaped -- to explain how the vast global economic collapse has come about, and how financial innovations ...
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Observations on the Science of Finance in the Practice ...
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Economist's View —
... They Are More Interested” - Economic Principals
Treasury Is Said to Warn G.M. of Bankruptcy Risk - NYTimes.com
China Slows Purchases of U.S. and Other Bonds - NYTimes.com
Hanging Tough - James Surowiecki
Macroeconomists at ND and at Large - Open Economics
A criminally stupid war on drugs in the US - FT
Scholars on the Sidelines - washingtonpost.com
Useless finance, harmful finance and useful finance - FT
Marx's important error - ...
The Easter Bunny did it!
Lawrance G. Lux —
... Read this Thing which might help you in understanding the Mess which the Banking sector has placed Us. I will not try to explain it to the Reader, I myself being particularly dense, but will simply say Bankers (Correction: CDS writers) convinced Investors to gamble for about a 8% Profit on their money that Mortgages would not default; even though current Mortgage Writing practically guaranteed a failure rate in excess of 20%. It still might have succeeded if the CDS themselves did not forbid alteration of Mortgage terms, except with the immediate loss to the CDS ...
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naked capitalism —
... Questions of Larry Summers Felix Salmon Developers Struggle to Fill Manhattan Office Space New York Times The Case of the Missing Month Floyd Norris, New York Times. Did you catch this? Goldman disappeared December! I'm not making this up! How can a public company get away with this? Banks Ramp Up Foreclosures Wall Street Journal Goldman $10bn repayment faces opposition Telegraph Useless finance, harmful finance and useful finance Willem Buiter Cheap Credit = Crummy ...
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