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Mark to Market Accounting

…requirements. I’d say that is crazy. For one thing US investment banks didn’t long survive the relaxation of capital standards for US investment banks (held out about 4 years IIRC)….

GAO-08-782T

…the impact of these persistent problems as DOD has been forced to work outside of its traditional acquisition process to acquire equipment that meet warfighter needs. Investment in weapons acquisition…

Swiss Bank UBS settles losses to towns

…sour instead of generating cash for municipal budgets. “We were part of an investment that all of these towns participated in. It was a triple-A-rated investment,” Keegan said. “It was…

The Irish Economic Miracle and Tax Policy

…rejects Keynesian factors and convergence theory (see Brendan Walsh and Patrick Honohan), and the following measurement issue as possible factors for the rapid increase in Irish income: One alternative explanation…

Terrorist Attacks and the Economy

…the possibility that terrorist attacks may dampen international investment activates. They specifically find that foreign direct investment – the purchases or creation of entire firms in another country – falls…

Explaining the Capital Flow Puzzle

…Asian economies are investing large quantities of money in the US because they don’t have good investment opportunities at home. That’s not because the domestic rates of return are no…

Soft Landing or Hard: Rip van Winkle Wakes Up

…national savings was higher than the pitifully low levels we have been witnessing since 2001. During Clinton’s second term, we were enjoying an investment-led boom but we suffered an investment-led…

Bush’s Agenda for America: Chapter One

…and community colleges. • Tax Reform: President Bush will work to make the tax code simpler for taxpayers, encourage saving and investment, and improve the economy’s ability to create jobs…

Prospects for Business Spending

…following chart shows the results of my efforts. The chart shows two different measures of real (i.e. inflation-adjusted) business spending: all investment spending (the green line), and investment spending excluding…