An editorial by Sylvain Raynes and Phillip L. Zweig urges the Obama administration to end the credit crisis through a valuation process acknowledging that the intrinsic value of a security may be substantially greater than what a buyer is willing to pay for it in...
An article by Anousha Sakoui and Nicole Bullock in Financial Times entitled "Liquidation risk grows as DIP finance dries up" is one more piece of evidence that hybrid systems don't work. I'm referring here to the two corporate bankruptcy systems the U.S. has put in place:...
"The Academy will never vote for the comedy crap you make. They only vote for the arty crap."This blunt assessment of the Oscars® by the old Columbia Pictures mogul Harry Cohen was later proven wrong. At the time, he was arguing with the director Frank...
Step 1:For God's sake, relax! Everyone is so uptight right now that we can't even think. We will only get out of this mess by thinking, not by reacting prematurely with adolescent measures and childish pronouncements. Step 2:Suspend all further Treasury loans to Wall Street...
The more things change, the more they seem the same. As the January 12 edition of The New York Times reminded us, Hollywood is in a race for digital 3-D movies in a feverish hope that the new system will beat out bad memories of...
In her article on the RGE Monitor Web site, R&R's Ann Rutledge discusses two myths that she sees offered as fact in a recent position paper by the Financial Economists Roundtable, "Reforming the Role of the Statistical Ratings Organizations in the Securitization Process." Myth 1:...
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo, we now have the official (more or less) tally of the year's top ten films. What does this top ten list tell us?The Dark Knight -- $530.8 million (estimated budget $185 million)Iron Man -- $318.3 million (estimated budget...