Follow us @ twitter.com twitter.com The rating agency moody’s has warned it is considering downgrading the investment banking world’s biggest players — this includes Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley…the list goes on and on. I like the way the Wall Street Journal put it: “Moody’s is worried about everything in investment banking.” And speaking of worries — Art Cashin of UBS in his note this morning says traders are worried about a Greek default, but not for the reasons that you may think. What they are really worried about isn’t the bond holders, but the guy’s holding the insurance: the credit default swap (CDS) market. Wait, we thought everyone was perfectly hedged? So what kind of risk is really lurking in the US banking system then, and what could it do to an economy on zero percent interest rate life support? Well, our guest Henry Blodget may have an answer to that. He is CEO and founder of Business Insider, and is with us to talk about this, as well as the subject of a recent article of his titled “Dear Walmart, McDonald’s, Starbucks: how do you feel about paying your employees so little that most of them are poor?” Henry makes a fair point in this article, but if it’s true that CEO’s and executives are paying their employees so little, then why are we so worried about taxes and not focused on the deterioration of wages in America? Henry Blodget points out that Henry Ford made a point of paying his workers better than other firms with the …
Panel 2 of the hearing on CRA regulation in Los Angeles, August 17, 2010.
Price to Earnings Ration (or P/E ratio).
This is a really simple and effective method for saving money. It ties in very well with my previous episode on the Envelope Budgeting System. Very practical, simple, and easy to do.Give it a try!
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A CD, which is a certificate of deposit, is a loan from the customer to the bank with the understand that the bank will fully repay the customer at some point in the future including interest. Understand how CDs work, and find a great interest rate, with information from a portfolio manager in this free video on finance. Expert: Roger Groh Bio: Roger Groh is the founder of Groh Asset Management. Filmmaker: Bing Hu
Lets change the discount rates depending on how far out the payments are.
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