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...collapses one receives the insurance payout. This incentivizes firms to work against each other and was one reason why Lehman Brothers collapsed. As the Financial Times asserts, “a house insured for more than its value is always considered a fire risk.” Healthy competition among banks is essential to a vibrant economy, but incentivizing the failure of banks is not. Furthermore, the government should regulate who is eligible to buy a CDS. If a firm attempts to purchase a CDS without the intent to insure their own investment, strict scrutiny should be applied...
...Although Swiss brands may not take the biggest bite out of the global chocolate market - that honor goes to the U.S. company Mars-Wrigley and Britain's Cadbury - they are widely considered among the best and most competitive in the world. "Switzerland's image sells well abroad, and nothing says 'Switzerland' more than chocolate," says Stephane Garelli, director of the World Competitiveness Center at the Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, predicting that this comfort food will continue to sweeten the sour economy for months to come...
...industry's immediate future is far from bleak. Lindt, makers of the iconic golden bunnies, predicts its 2009 sales are likely to increase by between 2 and 5% - short of its target of 6 to 8%, but still not bad in the current economy. While Nestlé, which manufactures, among other brands, Cailler and KitKat, is not releasing figures until the end of April, company chairman Peter Brabeck recently told Swiss newsmagazine Weltwoche that even amid a slacking consumer goods sector, chocolate sales are on the rise. "Now that people don't have a new television...
...Economists simply do not believe that tight-fisted and relatively poor Chinese consumers have the purchasing power to rescue China's economy, let alone the rest of the world. They're too busy saving for a rainy day. Beijing realizes that among consumers "household savings are high (and their consumption low) because of structural factors" says Roubini in his report, citing such factors as the lack of adequate health care and unemployment benefits, poor rural infrastructure and public services, lack of a proper social security system, and underdeveloped credit markets for mortgage and consumer finance. These all conspire to place...
...pessimists - these days among the majority - the answers are "very little" and "no," respectively...