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...problem with those answers, with most answers, is that they strive to contain cause and effect within a single trading day when the real story is much, much bigger. There is "distrust in the marketplace - and in the government's ability to handle the crisis," says Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at investment shop Avalon Partners. "That's basically feeding on itself...
mbridge at midnight for a 24-hour trip to Washington D.C. to hear two Supreme Court cases and meet with Justice David H. Souter ’61 next Tuesday. In preparation for the excursion, former Vermont Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeffrey L. Amestoy and Harvard Law Professors Noah R. Feldman and Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. discussed the context and facts of the two cases in Lowell House library last night...
...former financial analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sony Pictures, left two suicide notes - one for police and another for family and friends - and a will. "I understand he was unemployed, his dealings in the stock market had taken a disastrous turn for the worse," said Los Angeles deputy police chief Michel R. Moore. "This was a person who had been quite successful in this arena." Amid news of the global financial crisis and the credit crunch, this murder-suicide has become emblematic of the times - in its way parallelling the deathly plunges of Wall Street stockbrokers...
...Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JPMorgan Securities in Japan, summed up the frantic day in Asia. "Investor sentiment is in panic," Kanno said over the prospect of the spreading financial crisis dragging the global economy into a severe recession. The latest economic indicators are fueling this loss of confidence. For example, Japan's corporate bankruptcies jumped 34% in September, the largest increase since 2000, according to Tokyo Shoko Research...
...split is the culmination of three years of factional intrigue within the ANC between the supporters of ousted President Thabo Mbeki, and those of his chief rival, Jacob Zuma. Mbeki had been Mandela's deputy and became party and national president after Mandela's retirement in 1998, with Zuma as his deputy in both positions. But during Mbeki's second term, the two fell out and became bitter enemies. In 2005, Zuma's financial adviser, Shabir Shaik, was convicted of bribing Zuma in relation to a $10 billion arms deal, and was jailed for 15 years. Mbeki sacked Zuma...