Showing posts with label risk-taking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risk-taking. Show all posts
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Expansion at Volkswagen: Minimizing Risk in E.U.?

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It is perhaps common among gigantic corporations, such as the major automobile manufacturers, to assume that current profitability is lik...
Friday, June 8, 2018

Is Modern Banking Fundamentally Flawed?

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Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase and board member of the New York Federal Reserve (a banking regulatory body), advocates not only that ...
Friday, March 2, 2018

The Downfall of MF Global: Implications for Banks Too Big To Fail

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Here is an alphabet-soup of regulatory agencies that let MF Global, a financial services company that specialized in futures-trading, enga...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Reinsurance as a Shell Game: Another Bailout to Come?

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In the stock market, investors can be quite fastidious in demanding a certain quarterly profit or internal rate of return. The increasing a...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Return of the Mortgage-Based Bonds: Another Bubble in the Making?

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In case it has been a while since you have been entertained by going around in circles while sitting on a painted wooden horse, permit me ...
Monday, May 7, 2012

Fuld’s Arrogance at Lehman: Systemic Risk

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Documents released in May 2012 regarding Dick Fuld at Lehman Brothers prove that he was aware of the high risk involved in holding so much...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Hollywood on Risk: Snubbing Lucus’s “Red Tails”

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When George Lucus showed  Red Tails  to executives from all the Hollywood studios, every one of the execs said no. One studio’s executives d...