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Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales

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Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. financial stability were as misleading as the media frenzy over shark attacks in 2001. That means they benefited from cheap financing as the Fed kept short-term interest rates near zero for more than four years. This Week in Money Interview. July 2008 (104).

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Ritholtz on Gold and on.

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Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Barring some new developments — like all the gold in Fort Knox becoming irradiated — I do not expect to see a resumption of the 2001-11 uptrend. There exists no back-test for the current era of finance. This Week in Money Interview.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business

We came to this conclusion through interviews with CTOs across a range of industries, which we conducted as part of an NSF study to identify factors explaining differences in firms’ RQ. While the identity of the interviewed firms is confidential, it is easy to find similar examples from publicly available accounts in other firms.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Blank Checks, Inflation.

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Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Japan is on its 16th prime minister since its asset bubble burst around 1990 and not since, or long before, Junichiro Koizumi (2001-2006) has it had a truly audacious leader pledging to shake up the status quo. This Week in Money Interview. December 2008 (85).