I’m about a month behind in finding this, but here’s an Arizona Illustrated interview of University of Arizona economists Marshall J. Vest, Director Economic and Business Research Center, and Professor Gerald Swanson, Eller College of Management.
These two leading economic advisers give their assessment of the State of Arizona’s economy and the budget crisis.
It’s been a while since I’ve written a weekly wrap or actually discussed what I’ve been doing with my portfolio, so I thought it was time to let anyone who cares know what I’ve been doing (or not been doing), and what’s been going through my mind lately.
As we all know, this week ends the [...]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just adopted new rules to their oversight of money market funds — revisions that include increasing credit quality, improving liquidity, shortening maturity limits, and requiring the disclosure of a fund’s actual “mark-to-market” net asset value, known as a “shadow NAV,” on a delayed basis.
This SEC action grows out of [...]
Muhammad Yunus banks on America, trying to establish a “trickle-up” effect – a 2010 Sundance Film Festival premier documentary.
Documentary Spotlight:
What prevents poor people from getting ahead? Banks refuse to give credit without collateral. Where commercial banks see insolvency, Nobel Prize–winning economist Muhammad Yunus sees opportunity.
His groundbreaking Grameen Bank was built on the radical notion that [...]
In this entertaining economic video presentation, Fear the Boom and Bust, John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century, come back to life to attend an economics conference on the economic crisis. Before the conference begins, and at the insistence of Lord Keynes, they go out for [...]
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Recession Affecting Your Bling?
The Great Recession has affected every sector of the economy, even the one’s we haven’t really thought about. Just ask The Daily Show.