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Emergency Financing Mechanism "We are actively engaged at this critical time with several governments around the world, both to provide technical economic advice and financing, if necessary. We are ready to act very quickly, with streamlined conditions attached," says Strauss-Kahn. Strauss-Kahn ...
10/24/2008
United States authorities have employed three principal policy instruments since the outbreak of global financial turmoil last year: 1) fiscal and monetary policy to stimulate the real economy; 2) temporary or permanent purchases of assets to liquefy financial markets; 3) direct financial support...
10/23/2008
With a momentous election approaching, the American public has been buffeted by nerve-wracking volatility in the markets, blame mongering in the media, and debates among experts over the prospects of a financial meltdown. Surprisingly, however, Americans appear to be taking the crisis in stride. ...
10/23/2008
But we're deluding ourselves if we assume that we can recover from the crisis of 2008 so quickly and easily simply by watching the Dow creep upward. The wounds go deeper than that. To heal them, we must repair the broken moral balance that let this chaos loose. Debt - who owes what to whom, or to...
10/21/2008
You'll be hearing much more about "Credit-default Swaps" This is is a complicated name for a simple concept.  It is a legal contract in which an investor who buys, say, $10 million worth of bonds could pay from tens of thousands of dollars to more than a million dollars for the insurance, dependi...
10/21/2008
    Location Price Sold Price List/Sale Bdms Bths Living Area DOM Sold Date $/SF 2963 Pua Alani Pl $1,695,000 $1,350,000 79.65% 6 4.5 4,019 52 6/26/2008 $336.00 4432 Lawai Beach Rd $5,900,000 $5,650,000 95.76% 3 2 2,341 656 7/7/2008 $2,414.00 1709 Keoniloa Pl $1,299,000 $1,150,000 88.53% 4 3.5 2,...
10/20/2008
  Location Price Sold Price List/Sale Bds Bths Living Area DOM Sold Date $/SF 3988 Aloalii Dr $1,450,000 $1,200,000 82.76% 3 3.5 2,483 28 9/12/2008 $483 4001 Aloalii Dr $1,690,000 $1,450,000 85.80% 2 3 3,461 328 7/31/2008 $419 4128 Aloalii Dr $1,725,000 $1,648,000 95.54% 3 3.5 3,054 49 3/28/2008 ...
10/20/2008
  A condition of slow economic growth and relatively high unemployment - a time of stagnation - accompanied by a rise in prices, or inflation. Stagflation occurs when the economy isn't growing but prices are, which is not a good situation for a country to be in. This happened to a great extent d...
10/20/2008
A general decline in prices, often caused by a reduction in the supply of money or credit. Deflation can be caused also by a decrease in government, personal or investment spending. The opposite of inflation, deflation has the side effect of increased unemployment since there is a lower level of...
10/19/2008
The chart above tracks the annual mean average sale price of fee-simple condominiums in Princeville and Poipu.  Although similar in statistical performance, the overall running average appreciation trend line for Poipu edges out Princeville by approximately 3% overall (Poipu: 18%  vs. Princevill...
10/19/2008
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