News tagged with financial collapse

You only live once: Our flawed understanding of risk helps drive financial market instability

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our flawed understanding of how decisions in the present restrict our options in the future means that we may underestimate the risk associated with investment decisions, according to new ...

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created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New study finds severe financial vulnerability among African-American and Latino seniors

Millions of African-American and Latino seniors are living on the edge of financial collapse, according to a new report, Severe Financial Insecurity among African American and Latino Seniors. Released today by the Institute ...

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created May 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Market failure expert says letting Lehman go was good thing

Approaching the anniversary of Lehman Brothers' demise, NJIT Finance Professor Michael Ehrlich, an expert on market failure, says that the Feds made the right move when they allowed the investment firm to go bankrupt.

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created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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New York is vying to become global high-tech hub

(AP) -- Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city is now hoping for another "Erie Canal moment" with a high-tech research complex ...

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created May 28, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2

The use of acoustic inversion to estimate the bubble size distribution in pipelines

New research from the University of Southampton has devised a new method to more accurately measure gas bubbles in pipelines.

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many US families are underwater with debts: study

As the country emerges from the Great Recession, a substantial number of U.S. families are underwater—and not just with their mortgages.

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created May 08, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 81

Middle class woe

the American middle class has been battered by the loss of well-paying jobs for the 70 percent of the workforce without a college degree and failed by would-be protectors in government and private institutions, said panelists ...

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created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 13

Pirate party makes a raid on German politics

(AP) -- Pirates are capturing Germany's political system. The party with the outlaw name started as a marginal club of computer nerds and hackers demanding online freedom, but its appeal as an antiestablishment ...

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created Apr 29, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 37

Fishermen blast premier dive sites off Indonesia

(AP) -- Coral gardens that were among Asia's most spectacular, teeming with colorful sea life just a few months ago, have been transformed into desolate gray moonscapes by fishermen who use explosives or ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

'Smart City' ambitions for quake-struck Italian town

Three years after a quake devastated L'Aquila, the Italian town has launched a bid to become a hi-tech European city -- to the scepticism of thousands of people still living in temporary housing.

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created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More and more children have no parents and grandparents

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the number of cases of HIV infection in Zimbabwe has been decreasing for some time, the circumstances of children who have lost both parents to the AIDS epidemic could worsen in the ...

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created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

India's Tech Mahindra announces Satyam merger

India's Tech Mahindra announced its long-awaited buyout of IT outsourcer Satyam Computer on Wednesday, creating a new force in the sector with annual revenue of $2.26 billion.

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created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The crisis of shareholder primacy

If we want to prevent the next financial crisis, a new model of corporate governance is needed to replace shareholder primacy in financial institutions. Gates Scholar Mike Marin explains why.

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created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3


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