The annual IMD World Competitiveness Scorecard came out in October for 2009. In this measure of worldwide competitiveness, or ?how nations and enter...
I started my career out of school with a postgraduate degree in space physics writing mission software systems for satellites for organizations that n...
As CEO of Dorado I travel constantly. These last few weeks have been very unique. What began as a single business meeting turned into a quest to und...
California began a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures this month. Gov. Schwarzenegger signed The California Foreclosure Prevention Act last February. ...
Most lenders have loan modification programs in place. Customers in trouble should be ecstatic. Foreclosures should be on the decline — right?
Doug ...
The market of home lending is rebuilding itself. I call it Mortgage 2.0. As people inside the mortgage lending market look forward towards rebuildin...
I read that Obama?s new CIO has a preference for SaaS and Cloud Computing [see me punching the air with my fist and yelling ?yes!?]. SaaS? time has c...
The last few times I’ve talked to a reporter, one of the first questions they ask is what I think of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s TARP II pla...
I had a conversation with a bank executive the other day, one of our new 2008 customers. He was telling me about the socialization of change within th...
I recently read a Wall Street Journal article online by David Gaffen. He consolidated analysts’ predictions for 2009 and came up with a few commonalit...
Just about everything you'll hear coming out of Washington starting now is really about November's mid-term election. The gravitational pull of the mi...
In September 2008, as the worst of the financial crisis engulfed Wall Street, George W. Bush issued a warning: "This sucker could go down." Around the...
"Don't make the perfect the enemy of the better," says the President and congressional insiders when confronted with the sorry spectacle of a health-c...
The public option is dead, killed by a handful of senators from small states who are mostly bought off by Big Insurance and Big Pharma or intimidated ...
Americans want smaller houses and they are willing to strip some of yesterday's most popular rooms -- such as home theaters -- from them in order to a...
Pulling suitcases and hefting heavy bags on their shoulders, millions of Chinese workers are boarding trains to head home for the Lunar New Year -- a ...
A partnership to provide $43 million for loans to budding entrepreneurs and plans to set aside $200,000 to teach them will help people start or expand...
Highlights of Gov. Jennifer Granholm's State of the State address: ------ ECONOMY: --Announced formation of the Michigan Small Business Financing Alli...
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is counting on entrepreneurs to bring Michigan's struggling economy back from the brink. So much so that she plans to set aside...
Home and auto lender GMAC Financial Services said Thursday it lost $5 billion in the last three months of 2009, as losses from its mortgage operations...
Visa Inc. on Wednesday said its profit rose 33 percent in the fiscal first-quarter on increased revenue, even as consumers pull back sharply on spendi...
The Treasury Department said Wednesday it will invest up to $1 billion in small banks that serve poor communities as part of the Obama administration'...
Haiti's catastrophe has triggered an outpouring of support for the American Red Cross, which has raised more than $203 million for its Haiti Relief an...
Ultimate Escapes, Inc. , one of the world's largest luxury destination clubs, today provided an update on the status of its listing on the NYSE Amex L...
CHICAGO----Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news a...
Libbey Inc. announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Libbey Glass Inc. has completed its previously announced private placement of $400 millio...
Catalyst Paper Corporation today announced an extension of the private exchange offer and consent solicitation for its outstanding 8 5/8% Senior Notes...
QuinStreet Corp., an Internet marketer that competes with Yahoo and Google, is the one beacon of hope in this week's crop of initial public offerings ...
Libbey Inc. announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary Libbey Glass Inc. , in connection with its previously announced tender offer and consent ...
Rockwell Diamonds Inc. announces that it has filed today on SEDAR a final rights offering circular relating to the previously announced rights offerin...
Financiera Independencia, S.A.B. de C.V., SOFOM, E.N.R. , a Mexican microfinance lender of personal loans to lower income segment individuals, announc...
SEATTLE----DRS, Inc. was incorporated in November of 2006 as a Nevada Corporation by Daniel Mendes, the current President, and Daniel Guimont. On Augu...
Williams Coal Seam Gas Royalty Trust announced today that there will be a cash distribution to the holders of its units of beneficial interest of $0.0...
American Tire Distributors Holdings Inc. is planning an initial public offering, the company said Friday. American Tire, the country's largest distrib...
American Tire Distributors Holdings, Inc. today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
CareFusion Corporation announced today that it has completed its previously announced offer to exchange any and all of its outstanding $250 million ag...
Cathay General Bancorp , the holding company for Cathay Bank, today announced that it has completed its previously announced offering of 13,068,182 sh...
You know it's a weak IPO market when a hot technology company prefers Bono to the Nasdaq. That's what Yelp did when it raised $25 million in late Janu...
Rockwell Diamonds Inc. announces that the principal South African regulatory authorities have settled on the relevant dates for the Company's proposed...
Citing weak market conditions, Penthouse magazine publisher and Web site operator FriendFinder Networks Inc. said Friday it isn't proceeding with its ...
Shaghil Ahmed. This paper builds a model of two types of Chinese exports, those processed and assembled laregely from imported inputs ("processed" exp...
Erik Hjalmarsson. I study long-short portfolio strategies formed on seven different stock characteristics representing various measures of past return...
Bo Sun. This paper analyzes executive compensation in a setting where managers may take a costly action to manipulate corporate performance, and wheth...
Christopher Gust and David Lopez-Salido. We develop a DSGE model in which aggregate shocks induce endogenous movements in risk. The key feature of our...
Martin Bodenstein, Christopher J. Erceg, and Luca Guerrieri. In a two-country DSGE model, the effects of foreign demand shocks on the home country are...
Federal Reserve Board: FRB Finance and Economics Discussion Series Working Papers
Morten L. Bech and Elizabeth Klee. To combat the financial crisis that intensified in the fall of 2008, the Federal Reserve injected a substantial amo...
Kevin B. Moore and Michael G. Palumbo. The downturn in economic activity in the U.S. that began in December 2007 (as determined by researchers with th...
Michael B. Gordy and Sřren Willemann. In its complexity and its vulnerability to market volatility, the CPDO might be viewed as the poster child for t...
Hui Shan and David Powell. The link between taxes and occupational choices is central for understanding the welfare impacts of income taxes. Just as t...
Christopher L. Smith. The employment-to-population rate of high-school aged youth has fallen by about 20 percentage points since the late 1980s. The h...
