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Low Interest Rates Could fuel Speculative Financial Bubble: Federal Reserve

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Speculative Ubble, Low Interest Rates, Inflation, Risk Management, Federal Reserve, Jobless Rate, Ben Bernanke, Gdp, Financial Bubbles, The Fed, Risk-Taking, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve doesn't expect the recovery will be strong enough to quickly drive down the jobless rate, and acknowledged its ...

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Poker Pros Make Excellent Traders, Says Harvard Finance Professor

bloomberg.com | Mason Levinson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Phli Ivey, World Series of Poker, Wall Street, Poker, Risk Management, Traders, Harvard, Recession, Steve Begleiter, Business News

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University's Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates...

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Road to Copenhagen - Part 2: Risky Business

William S. Becker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, International Relations, National Security, Risk Management, Green News
William S. Becker

Public officials tend to be risk-averse in matters with potential political consequences; now they must become risk-savvy. Here are 10 ideas on how to make that happen.

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Words From the Wise?

Michael J. Panzner | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Larry Summers, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Risk Management, Sheila Bair, Financial Regulation, Economy, Business News
Michael J. Panzner

I just got back from The Economist's "Buttonwood Gathering" and thought I'd share a few of the more interesting quotes from the movers-and-shakers at the conference.

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The Case For Dismantling Giant Banks

Lawrence G. McDonald | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Oprah Winfrey, Bankruptcy, Ken Lewis, Lehman Brothers, Richard Fuld, Bank of America, Financial Crisis, Risk Management, Citigroup, Keynote Speaker, Business News
Lawrence G. McDonald

These 21st century banks have become deadly, systemically risky dominoes that can crush us all if they fail, or can bankrupt us all with debt if we have to bail them out.

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The Search for Normalcy

Robert Teitelman | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business

Read More: New Normal, Great Panic of 2008, Normalcy, Risk Management, Post-Bubble, Great Recession, Bubbles, Risk, Financial TImes, Market Equilibrium, Businessweek, Business News
Robert Teitelman

One view of "normal" has come out of the crisis stronger than ever: that "normal" doesn't exist at all, that the belief in market equilibrium has been effectively undermined.

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Investment Choices Linked To Areas of Brain

newsweek.com | Nikhil Swaminathan | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Redit Card Bill of Rights Act, Richard Thaler, Investing, Subprime Mortgages, Neurons, Ventral Striatum, Adjustable-Rate Mortgages, Risk Management, Risk, Business News

A region of the midbrain called the ventral striatum may be partly to blame for the fact that millions of Americans fell prey to risky financial gambl...

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KPMG Has A $1 Billion Problem At New Century

Francine McKenna | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Subprime Mortgages, Liquidity, Washington Mutual, New Century Financial, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Risk Management, Bear Stearns, Securities and Exchange Commission, Kpmg, Pcaob, Lehman Bros, Bailout Bandits, Politics News
Francine McKenna

KPMG is being sued for $1bn by the liquidators of New Century, the collapsed subprime lender, in the first big case against an auditor arising from th...

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How the Capital Market Failures and the Inability to Achieve Gender Equity are the Same

Laura Liswood | Posted 02.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Laura Liswood, Saadia Zahidi, Women's Leadership, Iris Bohnet, Gender Inequity, Risk Management, Risk Modeling, Global Gender Gap Report, World Economic Forum, Women, Women's Issues, Economy, Gender Issues, Gender, Business News
Laura Liswood

My experience in both the financial world and the field of women's leadership allows me to recognize that both market failures and gender inequality stem from the same combination of elements.

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It Just Gets Curiouser and Curiouser

Larry Gellman | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Investments, Investing, Stock Market Crash, Economy, Stock Market, Stock Market Bubble, Recession Fears, Stock Market Crisis, Risk Management, Housing Bubble, Recession, Housing Crisis, Las Vegas, Business News
Larry Gellman

Call me stupid, but I think we are at one of those moments in time where excitement ( aka fear) is causing investors to overlook great opportunities.

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Risk Manager-In-Chief

Jared Bernstein | Posted 11.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Financial Crisis, Risk Management, John McCain, Barack Obama, Risk Manager, Business News
Jared Bernstein

When it comes to risk assessment, economic or otherwise, it is now quite impossible to trust the judgments of our leaders. You can't assess risk if your mind is closed.

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Merrill Painfully Learns The Risks Of Managing Risk

New York Times | Jenny Anderson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: E. Stanley O'Neal, Merrill Lynch, Risk Management, Business News

In July, Merrill Lynch reported a solid second quarter. Profit was up 31 percent over the previous year and essentially flat from the prior quarter. T...

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