Cowboy Economics News - December 2007 Archives
With the recent wave of highly leveraged private equity deals and the current problems in credit markets, market observers are now predicting a sharp increase in corporate defaults, with possibly serious spillover effects. But thanks to changes in workout and bankruptcy practices in the U.S. and abroad during the last two decades, the prospects for preserving the values of financially distressed companies are greatly improved.
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Corporations could be wasting millions of dollars by jumping on the climate change bandwagon, a Queensland University of Technology researcher said.
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The Warwick Commission, a panel of leading specialists on world trade is this week publishing the results of its 10 month study of the state of the world trade system. They are concerned about what they see as a dwindling commitment to multilateralism in global commerce and critical of national political leaders' reliance on "the politics of blame and responsibility avoidance" in trade talks. They call for an end to the reliance on consensus decision-making in future negotiations; a bigger role for the World Trade Organization in the delivery of Aid for Trade to developing countries; escalating financial compensation as a means to resolve some trade disputes and a high level 'reflection exercise' on the future of the trade system by the members of the WTO.
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Generation Y students dream of being rich and famous according to a new Facebook application from graduate recruitment specialist Milkround.com.
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Genealogical tourism redefining leisure travel market, professor says
Rush to develop stock markets has huge downside
'Main Street' economic conditions misread by GDP
Stiff party competition, modest salaries good for state government, study shows
'Subjective time' can improve your bottom line