Dear colleagues!
 Helga and I are making our presentations, the attempts at intimidation, which we heard from Mr. Zhirinovsky, notwithstanding. Although it should be said, that as an individual, I did follow his advice in a certain sense, insofar as when I was elected to the first State Duma, I voluntarily refused to take my seat—but that was for other reasons.
    And maybe it really would be better for women to sit in the kitchen, if it were not for the... Continuar leyendo

 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)

- A network of lenders, brokers and opaque financing vehicles outside traditional banking that ballooned during the bull market now is under siege as regulators threaten a crackdown on the so-called shadow banking system.

Big brokerage firms like Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch which some say are the biggest players in this non-bank financial network, may have the most to lose from stricter regulation.
 

The shadow banking... Continuar leyendo