Source: The Boston Globe BUSINESS GROUPS and labor have at least one thing in common right now: a frustration that our politics are producing more hot rhetoric than good jobs, even as crucial national needs go unaddressed. But if private industry and labor unions pool their money and their political influence, they can lead the […]
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Labor, business can unite as economic heroes
September 7, 2011 – 9:18 am
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Posted in Economics, Labor, Leadership
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Also tagged business groups, Citigroup, Economy.com, Employment Policy Research Network, financial engineering, global infrastructure investment funds, Goldman Sachs, Housing Investment Trust, infrastructure improvements, Labor Day, labor unions, Moody's, Morgan Stanley, national infrastructure, national infrastructure bank, organized labor, private industry, private-public partnerships, US building trades, Wall Street
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After the Debt Ceiling Debate and S & P’s Credit Downgrade, Picking an Investment Adviser in an Unruly Market: S.P. Kothari
August 7, 2011 – 10:09 am
From Dow Jones Marketwatch S.P. Kothari, deputy dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a former Barclays fund manager, talks about what investors should look for in choosing an investment adviser to steer them through these turbulent markets. What do you think?
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Posted in Financial Markets
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Also tagged AAA rating, Barclays, credit downgrade, credit rating, debt ceiling, debt crisis, diversified portfolio, double dip, Dow Jones, equities, European debt crisis, expense ratio, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, financial markets, fixed income, investment advisor, investment strategy, Jonathan Burton, Marketwatch, MIT Sloan, Moody's, Obama, personal finance, portfolio, recession, S.P. Kothari, Standard & Poor's, stock market, Timothy Geithner, unemployment
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Why a rating agency should be concerned about the survival of the company it’s assessing
June 13, 2011 – 9:00 am
My latest paper* focuses on the difficulties that rating agencies face in setting a credit score that accurately reflects the credit quality of a borrower, but also takes into account the effect that score will have on the borrower’s credit quality in the future. When a rating agency cuts a given company’s credit rating, investor […]
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Posted in Accounting
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Also tagged accounting, credit rating, defaults, Gustavo Manso, investor confidence, issuer-pay model, MIT Sloan, Moody's, rating agency, SEC, stress test, Thomas McGuire
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