Results for “Bankers Trust”

… in 2005 warning of a “catastrophic meltdown” and was mocked as a “Luddite” by Mr. Summers. Meanwhile, some investment bankers -— at Goldman Sachs in particular — were betting against the positions they were pushing on their customers. An elaborate house of cards had been constr...

…rous? The lethality of the equation of guns x machines at the end of the 19 Century appeared to some industrialists and bankers and statesmen inarguable evidence for peace. Everyone with such a violently efficient weapon; who dares start a war? As we now know, machines x guns was...

…eyond Gordon Gekko's wildest dreams. When Oliver Stone agreed to direct, he rewrote a portion of the script to focus on bankers as well as hedge funders, taking no screen credit. This past September, Oliver yelled, "action" as Gordon Gekko, with long grey hair, comes back to life...

…Some of the meetings involved Michael Szafranski, our fake independent verifier. Some of the meetings may have involved bankers and the like. ] cannot tell you specifically who was at those meetings. Q. The specific meetings that we are talking about with -- where you left the b...

…from JPMorgan Chase over its complicity in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, but it brought no charges against individual bankers. One odd aspect of his tenure was the Southern District's willingness to defer to other jurisdictions when it came to Wall Street cases. Historically, t...

…from JPMorgan Chase over its complicity in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, but it brought no charges against individual bankers. One odd aspect of his tenure was the Southern District’s willingness to defer to other jurisdictions when it came to Wall Street cases. Historically,...

…r hedge fund CIO Dr. Rainford Knight to develop a club for local investment managers called SocialAlpha that encourages bankers in Palm Beach County’s ritzy social scene to get to know each other. Even Florida governor Rick Scott has gotten involved, sending personal letters to f...

…and Russian researchers gather to design a drug molecule, when astronauts talk in the International Space Station, when bankers settle finance policy in the midst of yet another unexpected crisis, they are using a powerful, standardized, shared tool that makes their work possible...

….” What is shame’s purpose? Is shame still necessary? These are questions I’m asking myself. After all, it is not just bankers we have to worry about. Most social dilemmas exhibit a similar tension between individual and group interest. Energy, food, and water shortages, climate...

…eyond Gordon Gekko’s wildest dreams. When Oliver Stone agreed to direct, he rewrote a portion of the script to focus on bankers as well as hedge funders, taking no screen credit. This past September, Oliver yelled, "action" as Gordon Gekko, with long grey hair, comes back to lif...

…yond Gordon Gekko 's wildest dreams. When Oliver Stone agreed to direct, he rewrote a portion of the script to focus on bankers as well as hedge funders, taking no screen credit. This past September, Oliver yelled, "action" as Gordon Gekko, with long grey hair, comes back to life...

…drawals in the language of bank accounts. Payments in are “subscriptions” to brokers and their clients, or deposits to bankers. All these payments can be electronic. A payer, typically a customer, might swipe a card or click a screen. A payee, typically a vendor, typically must...

…ider America’s big banks. They were at the epicenter of the financial crisis and were badly battered by it. Since then, bankers have complained that they’ve faced uncertainty about government policies, overzealous regulators trying to compensate for their laxness before the crisi...

…r hedge fund CIO Dr. Rainford Knight to develop a club for local investment managers called SocialAlpha that encourages bankers in Palm Beach County's ritzy social scene to get to know each other. Even Florida governor Rick Scott has gotten involved, sending personal letters to f...

and let each economist decide which version is more useful. Mine, at least, correctly describes those same four years as losing ones. National Accounts Overall It seems to me that national accounts are doing nothing wrong except in modeling the depreciation curve from misleadi...