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...Sparks film factory shows no signs of shutting down. Two more books are being developed and The Last Song arrives next month, starring Miley Cyrus as a rebellious teen sent to live with her estranged father. From the trailer, Greg Kinnear looks darling in the dad role. Ten bucks says he's a dead man. My argument with the Sparks oeuvre is not that a happy ending is needed; a sad ending can be just lovely. But continually setting your characters up for a fall and then wielding misery like a club? We want to be moved, not clobbered...
...into the digital-book business with its groundbreaking Kindle reader that's been making the biggest headlines lately, as sales far exceeded analysts' expectations. Its decision to allow customers to download best-selling books from its e-bookstore to the Kindle for only $9.99 a pop played a big role in stimulating demand. "When we have both [hardcover and e-book] editions, we sell six Kindle books for every 10 physical books," said Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, in a statement...
...role of proprietary trading - when banks buy and sell investments for their own accounts rather than their clients - and other principal investments in the financial crisis is getting new scrutiny. On Thursday, Feb. 4, the Senate Banking Committee held its second hearing in a week on President Obama's proposal to keep banks, which hold federally insured deposits, from engaging in such risky businesses as proprietary trading and hedge-fund and private-equity-fund investing (all three activities contain some element of trading or investing for the firm's own account, possibly employing leverage). Many have dismissed the so-called...
...academics and economists and even some Wall Streeters say proprietary trading and other principal investments played a much larger role in the losses that were at the heart of the financial crisis. What's more, if the firms had been barred from using their own money to buy mortgage bonds, much of the credit-and-housing bubble might not have been able to form...
...Proprietary trading played a big role in manufacturing the CDOs and other instruments that were at the heart of the financial crisis," says Michael Madden, a managing director of the investment firm BlackEagle Partners and a former Lehman executive. "If firms weren't able to buy up the parts of these deals that wouldn't sell ... the game would have stopped a lot sooner...