As the first country to experience the full force of the global economic crisis, Iceland is now held up as an example by some of how to overcome deep economic dislocation without undoing the social fabric. Professor Stiglitz discusses lessons learned.
The US state of California has been badly hit by the global recession. The area worst affected is Imperial County in the southeastern corner of the state. It has the highest unemployment rate in the nation – more than 30 per cent of the work force. Agriculture, the sector once sustaining the economy, has seen sales of its main crop lettuce plummet. Al Jazeera’s Mike Kirsch reports.
To watch more visit us @ www.youtube.com twitter.com twitter.com New austerity measures in Italy bring the labor minister to tears while US Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Greece and cracks jokes to the president about bringing bailout cash with him. Merkel and Sarkozy are pushing a plan for tighter fiscal union. And some believe this is it, this is the week that will decide the fate of the eurozone, culminating with a summit Friday. Where does this leave the citizens and democracy in the process? Also, MF Global’s bankruptcy and Jon Corzine’s suspected misuse of client cash, US regulators approve a rule to put tighter limits on how brokerage firms use customer money. But can we expect this to rein in the Corzine’s of the world when the Vice President has said in speeches he and the president call up Corzine for policy advice? And is Wall Street pressure keeping a financial transaction tax from being on the table. We speak to economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Also, we bring you musings on the iphone app for the eurozone crisis and the Ferrari pile up.
Privcap founder David Snow speaks with Donald Gogel about how his firm, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, has made operating talent core to its strategy for adding value, and about what kinds of corporate executives successfully make the transition to private equity investing. Gogel also explains why his firm has remained a ‘pure-play’ organization while many of its competitors have branched out into other asset classes and financial services. In this clip Gogel discusses the end of “financial engineering” in favor of operational improvements. View the full video at www.privcap.com
realestatemarketingthisweek.com – Real Estate Marketing – If facing financial issues make sure you hire qualified help, mortgage broker, financial planner, CPA and attorney – Produced by Dan Havey of Real Estate Marketing This Week Part 8 – So with the real estate market, we know here in Arizona, there are literally hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people that are confronted with a very difficult decision, declining home values, upside down in the home, the home value is worth much less than they actually owe, we need to give them options. If the option is foreclosure, short sale or loan modification, I would take the modification approach, most likely we would have to look at a person’s situation a little bit closely, but as I am going down some of the things that we have prepared for the show today, it looks like there are four main issues that people should know they need to consider, the cancellation of debt income, capital gains tax issue, the deficiency judgments side, and the credit report side and Mike, I know you can talk to some of these things. But we brought up in the first segment what I think this might represent and then I think we started to talk about how Mike can help people minimize the impact of what that would look like on the tax return or eliminate based on the situation, so let’s make sure that the people know these four concerns are something they should consider as they seek advice. Absolutely, and it’s really important that you talk to …
La apuesta del trillón de dólares cuarta parte, esta es la historia de Long Term Capital Management y su desastrozo final. Una historia de codicia, ineptitud y falsa confianza en la tecnología.
Money capital is the lifeblood of every investment. Without capital, there can be no product, no property, no sales, no cash flow. Check out Roberts video about his experiences raising capital for his first entrepreneurial venture. During this one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-repeated 3-day event with Robert Kiyosaki and his advisers you will learn: * Robert’s experiences raising capital * Why raising capital is the #1 skill of an entrepreneur * How you can develop this skill to benefit your business and real estate investing Whether your current or future investments involve business or real estate, raising capital is vital to keeping your investments alive and producing cash flow. Robert and his advisors are experts in this important skill who practice what they preach and will share with you their knowledge gleaned from years of real-life entrepreneurship and investment experience.
Singapore-born Danny Yong (full name Danny Yong Ming Chong), a widely respected veteran of Asian macro markets, is CEO & CIO and Portfolio Manager at Dymon Asia. Dymon Asia is a Singapore-based Asian Global Macro hedge fund and was funded by Tudor Investment Corp. After solid returns in 2009 and 2010, the fund is already up +13.39% net by end of April 2011. Asset base is close to US-$ 1 bn including future commitments. Danny Yong started his career at JP Morgan and was Head of FX & Rates Trading (South-East Asia) at Goldman Sachs (HK & Tokyo), a Managing Director (Macro Investments) at Citadel Investment Group (Hong Kong) and Chief Investment Officer and Co-founder of Hong Kong-based Abax Global Capital before spinning out Dymon Asia in 2008. This Opalesque.TV BACKSTAGE interview is a fascinating portrait of a leading global macro thinker and star trader. Danny Yong reflects what it takes to become a star trader and hedge fund manager and lays out Dymon Asia’s path to become one of Asia’s leading, home grown global macro power houses. Hear Danny speak about how Global Macro has evolved over last 5 years: Global Macro becoming Local Macro, the changed role of emerging markets and the emerging new financial world order. He shares valuable insights and intelligence like: – An assessment of Chinese policies over last 10 years – Will the Renminbi be fully convertible by 2014? – Will SDRs replace the US-$? – What is behind the asset bubble across all markets since 2000? – Is …