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IMF Report in April 2015 that points to new systemic risks from an expanding shadow banking system in the U.S. and Europe
04/09/2015
Grouped Articles
Post-Crisis Risk Casts a Darkening Shadow
Wall Street Journal 04/09/2015
Blackstone’s Deal With G.E. Highlights Its Real Estate Holdings
New York Times 04/12/2015
Home buyers who experienced foreclosure back in the housing market in 2015
04/09/2015
Grouped Articles
After Foreclosures, Home Buyers Are Back
Wall Street Journal 04/09/2015
Education technology startup companies
04/09/2015
Grouped Articles
The Must-Attend Event for Education Technology Investors
New York Times 04/09/2015
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamanei and the nuclear agreement reached with Iran in April 2015, and July 2015
04/09/2015
The Ayatollah has taken no position on the nuclear agreement, saying he does not agree or disagree with the agreement reached in April 2015.
Grouped Articles
Iran’s Supreme Leader Holds Key to Nuclear Deal
Wall Street Journal 04/09/2015
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Noncommittal on Nuclear Deal
Wall Street Journal 04/09/2015
Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Sanctions Must Lift When Nuclear Deal Is Signed
New York Times 04/09/2015
Wall Street Journal 04/21/2015
Iran’s Supreme Leader Says U.S. Cannot Be Trusted
Wall Street Journal 06/04/2015
Trying to Placate All, Iran Leader Zigs and Zags on Nuclear Talks
New York Times 06/27/2015
Expert opinion on U.S. Federal Reserve rate increases in 2015- views in the U.S. (1)
04/09/2015
Grouped Articles
Fed Must Consider the World and All U.S. Employment
Wall Street Journal 04/09/2015
Fedex Europe
04/08/2015
Grouped Articles
FedEx’s Priority: Bulk Up in Europe
Wall Street Journal 04/08/2015
Italy's Eni and oil production in Libya in 2015- protection from Libyan militias and maintaining production
04/08/2015
Grouped Articles
Libya’s War Rages but Eni Keeps Pumping Oil
Wall Street Journal 04/08/2015
Father-daughter roles at companies- "Ned" Johnson and Abigail Johnson at U.S. financial services firm Fidelity Inc.
04/08/2015
Abigail Johnson brings a different style of management to Fidelity. Her father who built the company from $5 billion in assets to $2 trillion, was known to take risks to build the company. "Ned" Johnson built the company with actively managed mutual funds, giving investors the opportunity to invest in other company managed funds, and invested in technology with its first website in 1995. Abigail is more cautious and prone to studying the situation carefully. Father and daughter disagree on ways to manage the company. Abigail preferred to partner with more established Black Rock for ETF's than to do on its own. Abigail is confident that actively managed mutual funds will do well once the market improves, even though passivel managed funds are growing rapidly at the expense of actively managed funds for the last ten years.
Grouped Articles
Fidelity’s New Chief Confronts Market Shift
Wall Street Journal 04/08/2015
"Operation Car Wash" in Brazil- the young prosecutors in Curitiba, Brazil, who traced the fund laundering for bribe payments at Petrobras
04/07/2015
Grouped Articles
Roots of a Brazilian Scandal That Weighs Heavily on the Nation’s Economy, Politics
Wall Street Journal 06/19/2015
How Brazil’s ‘Nine Horsemen’ Cracked a Bribery Scandal
Wall Street Journal 04/07/2015
Brazil’s Petrobras Reports Nearly $17 Billion in Asset and Corruption Charges
Wall Street Journal 04/23/2015
Petrobras Oil Scandal Leaves Brazilians Lamenting a Lost Dream
New York Times 08/07/2015
Ex-President of Brazil Sentenced to Nearly 10 Years in Prison for Corruption
The New York Times 07/12/2017
Working parents, families and Silicon Valley- the search for parent friendly culture in 2015-2016
04/07/2015
A former Chief Technology Officer of Facebook, who has started his own startup Quip, says the culture for mothers of children, working parents and families is not what it should be. He is raising two young children. Mothers at companies in Silicon Valley say they are sometimes the only parent in a team among many 20+ years employees. The culture is not friendly to women and families when it comes to time needed for helping raise a family.
Grouped Articles
Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Parents
New York Times 04/07/2015
Tech Expansion Overruns Cities in California’s Silicon Valley
Wall Street Journal 04/27/2015
How to Attract Female Engineers
New York Times 04/27/2015
Wall Street Journal 10/13/2015
What’s Holding Back Women in Tech?
Wall Street Journal 03/22/2016
Big government is the new West Coast craze
Washington Post 11/06/2016
Women in Silicon Valley companies
04/07/2015
Grouped Articles
Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Parents
New York Times 04/07/2015
At Google, Memo on Gender and Diversity Sparks Firestorm
WSJ 08/09/2017
Google's hiring and recruiting practices
04/07/2015
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/07/2015
Amit Singh of Google for Work: A Respectful Clash of Ideas
New York Times 01/22/2016
The work of Judge Sergio Moro, and prosecutors led by Deltan Dallagnol, to strengthen the legal system in Brazil for tackling corruption
04/07/2015
The story of the Petrobras investigation in Brazil is the result of the hard work put in by six prosecutors in the Brazilian city of Curitiba. Their hope is to bring some aspects of the U.S. legal system to Brazil to reduce the level of corruption. It comes at a time when there is a greater awareness in Brazil- and in many developing countries such as Brazil, Nigeria and others- of the cost of waste of public funds. In Brazil essential services including transportation have suffered for lack of funds, leading to public protests. A huge amount of borrowing took place in the last 10 years resulting in a debt crisis and credit crunch in the country which is likely to lead to low or stagnant growth.
Grouped Articles
How Brazil’s ‘Nine Horsemen’ Cracked a Bribery Scandal
Wall Street Journal 04/07/2015
An Escalating Corruption Scandal Rocks Brazil
Wall Street Journal 04/13/2015
Brazil’s Petrobras Reports Nearly $17 Billion in Asset and Corruption Charges
Wall Street Journal 04/23/2015
Brazil Arrests the Heads of Construction Giants in Graft Probe
Wall Street Journal 06/19/2015
With Arrest of Marcelo Odebrecht, Brazil’s Corruption Probe Moves to the Penthouse
Wall Street Journal 06/19/2015
Brazil Arrests Head of Odebrecht in Petrobras Scandal
New York Times 06/19/2015
The extent of systemic risk in the financial systems of the U.S. and Europe in 2015-2016
04/09/2015
Grouped Articles
Post-Crisis Risk Casts a Darkening Shadow
Wall Street Journal 04/09/15
The Obama doctrine and U.S. foreign policy in 2015-2016
04/09/2015
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/09/15
Gen. Martin Dempsey Leaves a Legacy of Caution
Wall Street Journal 05/06/15
Expert opinion on U.S. Federal Reserve rate increases in 2015- views in emerging markets (2)
04/09/2015
Grouped Articles
Fed Must Consider the World and All U.S. Employment
Wall Street Journal 04/09/15
Shadow banking risks in the U.S. and Europe in 2015-2016
04/09/2015
Banks in the U.S. have reduced mortgage lending and other loans to business with mutual funds and private equity funds increasing their share of financing in the U.S. financial system. This comes after tighter regulation of banks in the U.S., as banks reduce their assets and deverage. This is also happening in europe. The IMF points out the risks in the shadow banking system that is not regulated the way banks are. Greg Ip of the WSJ points out that this creates risk of the banks being safer and the financial system becoming less safe. Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England, says financial institutions are constantly looking for areas that are less regulated, and even if they try hard financial system regulators risk failing to catch up at some point.
Grouped Articles
Post-Crisis Risk Casts a Darkening Shadow
Wall Street Journal 04/09/15
Blackstone’s Deal With G.E. Highlights Its Real Estate Holdings
New York Times 04/12/15
Ayatollah Ali Khamanei of Iran
04/09/2015
Grouped Articles
Iran’s Supreme Leader Holds Key to Nuclear Deal
Wall Street Journal 04/09/15
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Noncommittal on Nuclear Deal
Wall Street Journal 04/09/15
Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Sanctions Must Lift When Nuclear Deal Is Signed
New York Times 04/09/15
Iran’s Supreme Leader Says U.S. Cannot Be Trusted
Wall Street Journal 06/04/15
Trying to Placate All, Iran Leader Zigs and Zags on Nuclear Talks
New York Times 06/27/15
Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Wild Card in Nuclear Deal
Wall Street Journal 07/15/15
College and University Food Bank Alliance and increasing reliance of low income household students on food pantries
04/08/2015
The College and University Food Bank Alliance has 183 members. With increases in tution of about 25% at U.S. universities and colleges since 2007, more students from low income households are having to reduce meals or use a food bank. About 40% of students in the UC system are from households with incomes less than $50,000 in 2015. Wage stagnation in the U.S. as food costs increase is also leading to more students having full tution aid depending on supplemental ways of meeting food costs. This is affecting the ability of students to study leading the UC system head, Janet Napolitano, to get a a study on food hunger.
Grouped Articles
Colleges Launch Food Pantries to Help Low-Income Students
Wall Street Journal 04/08/15
College Majors Figure Big in Earnings
Wall Street Journal 05/07/15
What Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts
New York Times 10/16/15
A Better Way to Measure Poverty
Wall Street Journal 10/19/15
Washington Post 10/23/15
U.S. Household Incomes Surged 5.2% in 2015, First Gain Since 2007
WSJ 09/13/16
Fedex acquisitions
04/08/2015
Grouped Articles
FedEx’s Priority: Bulk Up in Europe
Wall Street Journal 04/08/15
Informatica
04/07/2015
Grouped Articles
Canadian Pension Plan and Permira to Buy Informatica in $5.3 Billion Deal
New York Times 04/07/15
Canada Pension Plan's acquisition of Informatica
04/07/2015
Grouped Articles
Canadian Pension Plan and Permira to Buy Informatica in $5.3 Billion Deal
New York Times 04/07/15
Fedex Corp. acquisition of Dutch package delivery firm TNT Express
04/07/2015
Grouped Articles
FedEx’s Priority: Bulk Up in Europe
Wall Street Journal 04/08/15
FedEx Agrees to Acquire TNT Express in $4.8 Billion Deal
New York Times 04/07/15
Israel's proposals for a nuclear agreement outlined by Intelligence Minister Steinitz on April 6, 2015
04/07/2015
Grouped Articles
Israel, U.S. Lawmakers Press Case Against Iran Nuclear Deal
Wall Street Journal 04/07/15
Google's head of People Operations, Laszlo Block, and how to find achievers who are not afraid to try new things and experiment
04/07/2015
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/07/15
Amit Singh of Google for Work: A Respectful Clash of Ideas
New York Times 01/22/16
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