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- GE: Not-So-Good Things Come to Light
- David Merkel submits: When is a stock safe enough to buy when it becomes difficult for corporations to find financing? We can answer the question two ways: 1) Why should we buy stocks when the financial markets are choking? Better to sit on cash. 2) We can’t tell when...
- External links 2008-11-19
- Why Feds Shouldn't Regulate Insurance, Nor Own Insurers
- David Merkel submits: Insurance is complex by nature. Anytime one brings in a third party to be a protector/guarantor against adverse events, it creates some weird dynamics. Now, a few of the states, including the best of them, New York, have been regulating insurance for a long time. But...
- External links 2008-11-13
- Dear Fed: What Do You Have to Hide?
- David Merkel submits: Bloomberg sues the Fed for refusing to disclose what sort of collateral they are lending against. I come at this from having worked in insurance for two decades. Insurers have to disclose every asset that they own in their Statutory filings. When I looked at a...
- External links 2008-11-08
- Bubble Also Caused by Neomercantlists
- David Merkel submits: When I wrote for RealMoney, one of my continuing themes was that the Federal Reserve was less relevant because neomercantilistic nations like China and perhaps OPEC nations had reasons for promoting exports to the US that were less than economic. As such they would buy US...
- External links 2008-10-22
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- Rapid Link Hires David J. Merkel as Director of Corporate Finance
- ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--March 15, 1999--Rapid Link Telecommunications, a worldwide leading provider of international telecommunications services, hired David J. Merkel, CPA, as director of corporate finance to manage the company's internal accounting and auditing and to assist with investment fundraising activities. "David has the experience and background we need to lead...
- Research articles 1999-03-15
- 20 Notes on Current Risk in the Markets
- David Merkel submits: 1) A modest proposal: The government announces that they will refinance all debtors. Not only that, but they will buy out existing debt at par, and allow people and firms to finance all obligations at the same rate that the government does for whatever...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Opportunities in Dual Share Classes
- David Merkel submits: My research sometimes takes me into the nooks and crannies of finance. I know it is wonky, but I actually enjoy tearing into complex prospectuses in order get a sense of where value is. One of my current projects is on large companies...
- External links 2009-10-13
- Are Most of Our Financing Problems Solved?
- David Merkel submits: Coming out of a recession, and even more so if it is debt deflation, the key question to ask is whether most of the financing problems are solved. It is not yet true in residential real estate, and is far from true with commercial real...
- External links 2009-05-05
- What to Ask AIG
- David Merkel submits: The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has asked Ed Liddy and the AIG trustees to testify Wednesday. Here are the questions that I would ask, given my recent piece on AIG. Are you going to be able to use all of your...
- External links 2009-05-12
- GM Still Wants State Aid For Opel Restructuring
- By Christiaan Hetzner and Angelika GruberFRANKFURT (Reuters UK) - General Motors GM reaffirmed on Friday it wants state aid to help overhaul European arm Opel after a newspaper quoted GM's chairman as saying the U.S. carmaker will not ask German taxpayers for help.The topic is politically sensitive since GM this...
- News items 2009-11-13
- GM Still Wants State Aid For Opel
- By Christiaan Hetzner and Angelika GruberFRANKFURT (Reuters UK) - General Motors GM reaffirmed on Friday it wants state aid to help overhaul European arm Opel after a newspaper quoted GM's chairman as saying the U.S. carmaker will not ask German taxpayers for help.The topic is politically sensitive since GM this...
- News items 2009-11-14
- Icy Winds at Opel, Saab Under Whitacre
- By Christiaan Hetzner and Angelika GruberFRANKFURT (Reuters UK) - The abrupt dismissal of General Motors GM chief Fritz Henderson by Chairman Edward Whitacre stoked fears on Wednesday of deeper staff cuts at its European arm Opel and the possible liquidation of Saab.Auto industry expert Stefan Bratzel expected Whitacre to slash...
- News items 2009-12-02
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