What caused the global financial crisis, and what direction should the policy reform agenda take? Why did residential mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps explode from around 2004? Adrian Blundell-Wignall, Deputy Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs at the OECD, addresses these questions in his article “Origins of the Financial Crisis and Requirements for Reform,” recently published in the Journal on Asian Economics. Please join the OECD and New America for a discussion of some of the new problems that are beginning to emerge as a result of the policies being used to deal with the crisis.
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Feb 10
Finance Minister Pranab Mukharjee on Economic Survey
Finance Minister Pranab Mukharjee address to media on Economic Survey 2009-10 report,after persent it into parliament, in New delhi on Thursday.Video by RAJEEV TYAGI
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Keiser Report №20: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals behind ‘debt attacks’ on Spain and Greece; record short positions on the euro and whether Shanghai will be the next financial crisis. Keiser also talks to Steve Keen for an update on the Australian housing market, the continuing deflationary collapse and the chances of unrest.
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Excel Finance Trick #2: Simple & Compound Interest
See how to use the FV function. See the math formula for calculating Future Value and for calculating the effective interest rate. Also see long hand how compound interest is calculated. See that Excel only sees 15 significant digits in Excel. Learn that Excel 2007 has 100 Undo, whereas Excel 2003 only had 16. In ThisSeries learn 17 amazing Finance Tricks. Learn about the PMT, PV, FV, NPER, RATE, SLN, DB, EFFECT, NOMINAL, NPV, XNPV, and the CUMIPMT functions that can make your financing tasks much easier in Excel. See how to use the PMT function in the standard way, but also see how to use it while incorporating a Balloon payment or a delayed payment. Lean how to translate a Nominal interest rate into an Effective Interest rate. Learn how to calculate how long it takes to pay off a credit card balance. Lean how to calculate the Effect Rate on a Payday loan. And many more financing Tricks!! The Excel Finance Tricks 1-17 will show an assortment of Excel Financing Tricks! Formula
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Gujarat International Finance Tech-city ( GIFT )
GIFT is being designed as a hub for the global finance services industry.GIFTCL proposes to implement GIFT as a globally benchmarked International Finance City as well as to develop, finance, implement all infrastructure in and around GIFT. The site is 12 kms from the Ahmedabad International Airport and 8 kms from Gandhinagar. More you can get.. www.skyscrapercity.com
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Keiser Report №19: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert report on the scandals of George Soros and the IMF shaking out the gold market; US bank lending falling at the fastest rate in recorded history; and the trickle up unemployment pyramid. Keiser also speaks to The Market Ticker’s Karl Denninger about cdos, synthetic cdos and hiding Greek debt.
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“Are Corporations People?”: Larry Lessig on Campaign Finance Reform
www.fixcongressfirst.org Lawrence Lessig discusses how the proper response to the recent Supreme Court “Citizens United v. FEC” ruling isn’t to reverse the decision or to regulate speech, but to address the fundamental influence of money in congress. The best way to fix congress is to support the Fair Elections Now act, which will put in place a system of citizen funded elections. CC licensed images from Flickr: Wall Street: flex, Capitol: cowtools.
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George Papaconstantinou, Finance Minister of Greece
George Papaconstantinou, Greece’s Finance Minister, meets colleagues from other eurozone countries during a meeting in Brussels. www.mnec.gr
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