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hedgefundsatemymoney “Hedge Funds Ate My Money” – Facts & Fantasies in Alternative Investments In Fashion? Hedge funds are “in”. St. James and Mayfair in London, the Helmsley building in New York and Stanford, Connecticut are home to a plenitude of hedge funds. “Plenitude” refers to when there is too much of anything. The fund’s names inevitably include the term “capital” - remember Long Term ...

July 17, 2008 A Generational Challenge to Repower America (as prepared) D.A.R. Constitution Hall Washington, D.C. Ladies and gentlemen: There are times in the history of our nation when our very way of life depends upon dispelling illusions and awakening to the challenge of a present danger. In such moments, we are called upon to move quickly and boldly to shake off complacency, throw aside old...

Deciphering the 2007-08 Liquidity and Credit Crunch∗ Markus K. Brunnermeier† Princeton University Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming) This Draft: May 14, 2008 ∗ My views were shaped by conversations with Viral Acharya, Franklin Allen, Patrick Bolton, Smita Brunnermeier, Sylvain Champonnois, Ing-Haw Cheng, Doug Diamond, Joel Hasbrouck, John Kambhu, Augustin Landier, David Lando, Jami...

SHORT SELLING, DEATH SPIRAL CONVERTIBLES, AND THE PROFITABILITY OF STOCK MANIPULATION John D. Finnerty Professor of Finance, Fordham University March 2005 John D. Finnerty Fordham University Graduate School of Business 113 West 60th Street New York, NY 10023 Tel: 212-599-1640 Fax: 212-599-1242 e-mail: finnerty@finnecon.com SHORT SELLING, DEATH SPIRAL CONVERTIBLES, AND THE PROFITABILITY OF ...

Page 1 AUTHOR: Robert C. Merton TITLE: A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation SOURCE: Financial Management v24 p23-41 Summ ’95 The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited. PUBLISHER ABSTRACT AB New financial product designs, improved computer an...

The End of the Beginning – Developments in the Credit Crisis May 27, 2008 Satyajit Das is a risk consultant and author of Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives (2006, FT-Prentice Hall). Equity markets believe the worst is over. Banks also seem to have convinced themselves that the worst is behind us. An alternative and, arguably, better view of the curr...

Credit Crunch – The New Diet Snack for Financial Markets September 05, 2007 Written by Satyajit Das Wednesday, 05 September 2007 07:15 Satyajit Das works in the area of financial derivatives and risk management. He is the author of a number of key reference works on derivatives and risk management and is the author of Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivativ...

Centre for International Politics WORKING PAPERS ON TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS PONZI FINANCE AND GLOBAL LIQUIDITY MELTDOWN: LESSONS FROM MINSKY Anastasia Nesvetailova Working Paper CUTP/002 © Anastasia Nesvetailova, February 2008 This is a work in progress. Feedback welcome. Contact: a.nesvetailova@city.ac.uk Series Editor: Tom Davies (tom.davies@city.ac.uk) Introduction As the meltdown spar...

Speech Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Forum on Mortgage Lending for Low and Moderate Income Households, Arlington, Virginia July 8, 2008 Financial Regulation and Financial Stability I would like to thank Chairman Bair for inviting me to address this conference on mortgage lending to low- and moderate-income households. The decision to own a home is one o...

Some Streams of Systemic Thought (Draft update — May 2001) KEY: white red black blue magenta green yellow orange olive gray cyan purple general systems cybernetics physical sciences mathematics computers & informatics biology & medicine symbolic systems social systems ecology philosophy systems analysis engineering *** Originated in 1996 by Dr. Eric Schwarz, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Extended i...