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Ratigan: Financial fraud task force announced!

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Finally, a task force investigating bank, housing and securities fraud had been announced. Dylan Ratigan and panel discuss this action and other recent crackdowns on fraud, including new regs against overdraft fees. Copyright MSNBC 2009 Morning Meeting fraud investigation ATM Senate House panel Goldman Sachs AIG insurance companies JP Morgan Bank of America taskforce dollar usdx upp gold silver created cracking down on fraud SEC Tim Geithner Housing Secretary White House Fed Federal Reserve …

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November 26th, 2009 at 10:27 am

Offloading risk to insurance companies

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Author Jim Otar on why retirees need to offload risk to insurance companies

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September 15th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

Leading Financial Strategist Moshe Arye Milevsky

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Moshe Milevsky is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Schulich School of Business at York University, a member of the faculty in the joint Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA Program at Northwestern University, and the Executive Director of the Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions (IFID) Centre, in Toronto, Canada. The focus of Moshe’s teaching, research, consulting and keynote speaking surrounds in the interplay between investment management, personal finance and insurance. Moshe is …

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August 22nd, 2009 at 7:53 am

Niall Ferguson: The Financial Crisis -4

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Niall Ferguson – renowned professor of History and Business Administration at Harvard, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford and the Hoover Institute, and author of “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World” – provides a riveting historical perspective on the financial crisis. He discusses at length: (a) the historically bumpy evolution of the financial system via periodic crisis; (b) the boom-bust cycle of assets prices due to never changing human psyche; (c) the severity of the …

Niall Ferguson: The Financial Crisis -5

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Niall Ferguson – renowned professor of History and Business Administration at Harvard, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford and the Hoover Institute, and author of “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World” – provides a riveting historical perspective on the financial crisis. He discusses at length: (a) the historically bumpy evolution of the financial system via periodic crisis; (b) the boom-bust cycle of assets prices due to never changing human psyche; (c) the severity of the …

Finance Summit Seeks to Combat Economic Slowdown

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Amid a dramatic global economic slowdown, leaders of 20 developing and industrialized economies are holding an emergency summit in Washington Saturday (Nov 15). VOA economics correspondent Barry Wood reports on what may result from a meeting whose formal discussions will last only five hours.

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July 13th, 2009 at 5:27 am

Finance Summit Seeks to Combat Economic Slowdown

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Amid a dramatic global economic slowdown, leaders of 20 developing and industrialized economies are holding an emergency summit in Washington Saturday (Nov 15). VOA economics correspondent Barry Wood reports on what may result from a meeting whose formal discussions will last only five hours.

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July 13th, 2009 at 5:27 am

Niall Ferguson: The Financial Crisis -2

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Niall Ferguson – renowned professor of History and Business Administration at Harvard, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford and the Hoover Institute, and author of “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World” – provides a riveting historical perspective on the financial crisis. He discusses at length: (a) the historically bumpy evolution of the financial system via periodic crisis; (b) the boom-bust cycle of assets prices due to never changing human psyche; (c) the severity of the …

Nouriel Roubini: The Financial Crisis -3

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Nouriel Roubini – who successfully predicted the recent collapse of the US-dominated financial system years in advance – discusses the financial crisis and its impact on world economies. He describes in detail: (a) the origins of the financial crisis in bursting of massive bubbles in various asset classes that in turn were generated by easy credit and poor regulation; (b) the fundamental flaws of limited transparency, excessive securitization, and shoddy credit ratings – especially in the …

Niall Ferguson: The Financial Crisis -6

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Niall Ferguson – renowned professor of History and Business Administration at Harvard, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford and the Hoover Institute, and author of “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World” – provides a riveting historical perspective on the financial crisis. He discusses at length: (a) the historically bumpy evolution of the financial system via periodic crisis; (b) the boom-bust cycle of assets prices due to never changing human psyche; (c) the severity of the …


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