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Best-Selling Author Robert Shiller Tells Us How to Get out of This Mortgage Mess in THE SUBPRIME SOLUTION
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Robert Shiller, the renowned Yale economist and bestselling author of Irrational Exuberance, has a knack for predicting the bubbles. In Irrational Exuberance he foretold the coming crash of the tech bubble in 2001 and then, in Irrational Exuberance, Second Edition, the sage of New Haven effectively predicted...
Tags: bubble, FINANCE, financial, Mortgages, Robert, Yale University
Research articles 2008-09-02
The origins of a housing credit bubble; Monday-morning quarterbacks are finding plenty to blame for the creation of a housing credit bubble that has dramatically brust. While there's a growing laundry list of causes, there appears to be emerging consensus
As bubbles go, this one is probably going to be a modern record-breaker. * The worldwide toll in write-downs at banks and financial institutions for the housing credit bubble in the United States is now expected to top out at $565 billion, according to the Washington, D.C.-based International Monetary...
Tags: bank, bubble, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, Jones, mortgage, Mortgages
Research articles 2008-09-01
Water Cube brings Chinese architect Olympic glory
SHANGHAI AFP — Zhao Xiaojun may not have won a gold medal, but the Shanghai architect who helped create the iconic bubble-clad Water Cube is already reaping the rewards of Olympic glory. The record-breaking exploits of US swimmer Michael Phelps turned a global spotlight on Beijing's National Aquatics Center,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Beijing, bubble, Games, glory, Government, Shanghai
Research articles 2008-08-20
Past winner Lazier, Roth survive Indy racing battle
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana AFP — Canada's Marty Roth and Buddy Lazier, the 1996 Indianapolis 500 winner, withstood the last hectic minutes of final qualifying Sunday to secure starting spots in the 92nd Indianapolis 500. Mexico's Mario Dominguez crashed in a final attempt to claim a berth in the 33-car field...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bubble
Research articles 2008-05-18
Bubble could burst for 11 series
This season, only 11 network series are "on the bubble" between renewal and cancellation; the fate of the others already has been decided. Let USA TODAY, and the networks, know how you feel about the shows whose futures are uncertain. Cast a...
Tags: ABC Inc., bubble, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, USA Today
Research articles 2008-04-07
Astronauts test way to fix tiles
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Two spacewalking astronauts pulled out a caulk gun and a high-tech kind of Silly Putty on Thursday night and tested a method for patching shuttle thermal tiles. It was the fourth spacewalk since Endeavour arrived at the international space station just over a week...
Tags: bubble, NASA, shuttle
Research articles 2008-03-21
Mother of all bubbles prepares to burst ANALYSIS
WHAT has the food crisis got to do with Northern Rock? Quite a lot, actually. The rocketing price of wheat, soya beans, sugar, coffee etc is all part of the credit crisis which has caused panic in financial markets and encouraged investors to take their money out of risky mortgage...
Tags: analysis, bubble, collapse, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, food, Manufacturing
Research articles 2008-03-09
A little watermelon meat or soap bubbles for dinner?
DEAUVILLE, France AFP — When some of the world's top chefs put their talent to whipping up some fun, the results can be disconcerting: a salsify or vegetable oyster turns into a cork, watermelon becomes meat and dishes connect to a mobile phone. At this week's annual Omnivore Food...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bubble, cosmetics, meat, plate, vegetable
Research articles 2008-02-15
Wetting phenomena in oil sand systems and their impact on the water-based bitumen extraction process
AbstractThe highly efficient and economically feasible technology for bitumen recovery from U.S. oil sands using a water -extraction approach was developed at the end of the last century. This water-based bitumen extraction process has been optimized based on observations and analysis of microscopic mechanisms of bitumen release from oil sands...
Tags: bubble, Clark, droplet, extraction, grain, Hanson, M., Miller, mineral, particle, recovery, rupture, University of Utah
Research articles 2008-02-01
Voyager 2 Proves Solar System Is Squashed
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORSContact: Nancy Neal-Jones or Bill Steigerwald of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, AGU Press Room +1-415-348-4440 or +1-301-286- 0039 / 5017, Nancy.N.Jones@nasa.gov / William.A.Steigerwald@nasa.gov; or Carolina Martinez/Jane Platt of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, +1-818-354-9382/0880, carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed...
Tags: bubble, NASA, particle, spacecraft, termination
Research articles 2007-12-10
Does U.S. monetary policy react to asset prices? Implications of stock market bubbles, volatility and productivity
Abstract There is no consensus whether-and if so, how-monetary policy reacts to asset price fluctuations. This paper shows that the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank lowers interest rates in response to an improvement in market fundamentals, thus accommodating productivity gains which essentially signal low future inflationary pressures. The Fed also...
Tags: asset, bubble, Federal Reserve Board, inflation, Investment, productivity, stock, volatility
Research articles 2007-12-01
Why gold shines brightly
An asset-allocation strategy with a current emphasis on gold produced strong returns of 11.33 percent in the third quarter and 16.95 percent for the year to date. Such allocation is based on the analysis that gold will continue to outperform both stocks and bonds for the foreseeable future. The financial...
Tags: bank, bubble, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, inflation, Investment, stock
Research articles 2007-11-01
The Oracle Reveals All
Jon Meacham and Daniel Gross Did the Fed cause the real-estate bubble to burst? Are we entering a recession? And who should be our next president? A candid conversation. Having retired, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is no longer required to testify at length before...
Tags: bubble, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, Investment, Oracle Corp., president, Turbulence
Research articles 2007-09-24
Summers speaks: in an exclusive interview, the Harvard professor takes on the subprime crisis, moral hazard, and Alan Greenspan's inflation forecast
TIE: This is the twentieth anniversary of The International Economy magazine. In some respects, this magazine really appeared in part because of some remarks you made at one of the conferences we held back in the 1980s. You stood up and commented on how there was a need for greater...
Tags: bank, bubble, Federal Reserve Board, financial, hazard, inflation, U.S.
Research articles 2007-09-22
When Fools Rush In, The Joke's on Them
An idea for a morality play: capture the madness of an era when investors, entranced by new technology, a novel set of economic assumptions and an all-powerful Federal Reserve, lost their heads, blew an exuberant bubble and suffered a painful bust. Sure, it may be late for...
Tags: bank, borrower, bubble, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, investor, Mortgages
Research articles 2007-08-20
Quick Read
Pop! Why Bubbles Are Great for the Economy by Daniel Gross The conventional wisdom, best articulated by Charles Kindleberger in his classic "Manias, Panics, and Crashes," holds that whenever cash pours rapidly into, and then out of, a narrow class of assets, bad things happen. Fortunes are...
Tags: bubble, columnist, Newsweek
Research articles 2007-06-25
Head start: Scientists crack beer-froth enigma
PARIS AFP — There is the nagging question of whether life exists other than on Earth. The enduring mystery of who made us -- and why. And then there is this: Why does the foam on a pint of lager quickly disappear but the head on a pint of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bubble, foam, NETWORKING
Research articles 2007-04-25
Save OUR shows
Is your favorite show in danger of being canceled? Does a beloved series need your help to stay alive? USA TODAY's Gary Levin lists network shows that are assured of returning next year, those for whom the bell already has tolled -- and those on the bubble between life and...
Tags: ABC Inc., bubble, CBS Corp., NBC Universal Inc., NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Research articles 2007-04-12
Wallstrip: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FNM, FRE)
Will the government save the day, or has the sun already set? Julie Alexandria summarizes the current mortgage mess.
Tags: housing bubble, real estate, beatles, john lennon, david hasselhoff, kids in the hall, bernanke, bubble, icarus, ali, kramer, paulson, fre, fnm, freddie mac, nyse, nasdaq, investing, invest, stock stock exchange, stocks, julie alexandria, howard lindzon, Software, Enterprise Software, Vertical Industries, Finance, Capital Structures, Government, Mortgages, Fannie Mae, wallstrip, subprime mortgage
Videos 2008-07-21
Peeling Away the Economic Onion
The Onion has a cunning bit of satire, Recession-Plagued Nation Demands A New Bubble To Invest In , that offers a welcome bit of relief from the oppressive sense of doom that pervades most financial news right now. A sample bit: ...
Tags: Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Government, Onion, Bubble, Financial, Finance, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-07-16
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