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The Material Production of Virtuality

Paper : The Material Production of Virtuality:Innovation, Cultural Geography, and Facticity in Derivatives Markets by Donald MacKenzie a finance professor at the University of Edinburgh, he estimates that financial derivatives totalling $150,000bn are indexed to BBA Libor.
Anybody who can call a book “…
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6 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 16:11

Financial Market Perceptions of Recession Risk

Paper : Financial Market Perceptions of Recession Risk by Thomas B. King, Andrew T. Levin, and Roberto Perli.
Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs
Federal Reserve Board,Washington,D.C.
Abstract
Over the Great Moderation period in the United States, we find that corporate credit spreads embed crucial information about the one-year-ahead probability of recession,…
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6 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 10:34

Man Group CEO on lock-ups and alpha…

The CEO of one of the world’s largest hedge fund companies told an audience yesterday that lock-ups lead to higher returns. Fair enough. But is it “alpha”?…
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6 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 4:40

Too big to fail? Not this ship, sister

First, spam e-mail of the day. “Open jars in seconds!” is the message header. Now that’s a product I need, because I’ve always thought it was taking too damn long to open jars. I mean, I opened a jar of olives the other day and it took me at least… well… seconds to open. Unacceptable! Aaaaaaanyway… The concept of “too big to fail” has been bandied about quite a bit lately. For most people, the idea stems back to C…
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6 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 0:36

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