…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

…the mark down of CDO by companies holding too many of them thereby forcing AIG to raise collateral after it was downgraded and eventually paying off on CDO that never…

…what looked like easy-money guarantees. Then it all came tumbling down with the realization that the huge mortgage loan securitization industry and the CDOs, CDO-squared, and CDO-cubed transactions were filled…

…in an Abacus CDO deal, acknowledging that its materials were “incomplete”. See Chan & Story, Goldman Pays $550 Million to Settle Fraud Case, NY Times (July 15, 2010). Goldman sold…

…CDOs. Magnetar clearly used the revenue from their equity tranches to invest massively in CDSs. They claim they were net losers when all but one of the CDOs which they…

…the system.“ (Run here: Over at Naked Capitalism, they are debating whether Goldman Sachs drove the collapse of AIG by calling for the mark down of CDO by companies holding…

Robert Waldmann The logic of the new Geithner plan is that CDO’s can be bought for less than their hold to maturity value because of panic and the fact that…