London School of Economics Some fascinating podcasts on the London School of Economics Events page. Recently I’ve been listening to Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman during his three-day event in June 2009, where he dissects the global economic crisis: The Return of Depression Economics Part 1: The sum of all fears The Return of Depression Economics [...]
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What do you call someone that has to take the Series 7? Lucky. Lucky, at least, compared to the poor, sorry sap that has to take the S7 twice. Yep, I had to take the Series 7 today, five years after taking it the first time when I was with Nomura. Passed it then, but it turns out [...]
I finally got around to passing out my new name cards. I hadn’t looked at them very closely (the division assistant ordered them for me). It’s probably a good thing I hadn’t passed any out yet – PK noted something when I gave him one last night. According to the name card, the official name [...]
I am happy – although not a little surprised – to be announcing that I have accepted an offer to work in-house again. The position is actually with my former company, and will include a management position in London for at least a year or two. Given the current market situation – with capitalism as [...]
Japan’s High Court overturned a lower-court ruling that had convicted three former senior managers at Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (now Shinsei Bank) of ‘lax assessment of bad loans’ (mostly owed by nonbank affiliates. This is a very interesting development – if for no other reason than it’s rare for a guilty in Japan to [...]
hanks to PK for the link to some funny, funny stuff: http://www.alexcartoon.com/ This one in particular is classic.
The US has the Wall Street Journal, Europe has the Financial Times – and Japan has the Nikkei. I don’t know any other market so overwhelmingly dependent on one publication – the insider info level is off the charts. The WSJ and FT are both good reads – I personally tend to prefer the WSJ [...]
From the Nikkei’s online version: Shirakawa: Japan’s Experience Can Help Resolve Financial Crisis WASHINGTON (Kyodo)–Masaaki Shirakawa, new Bank of Japan governor, said Thursday the country can help resolve the global financial turmoil with its experience of the 1990s banking crisis in Japan. Shirakawa, who is visiting Washington to attend a meeting of Group of Seven [...]