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Seeking Stability in an Unstable World

by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 14, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , ,

“In this connected world, we are all in the same boat. If part of the boat has a hole in it you cannot say afloat.” The words of the chief executive of Hong Kong SAR, Donald Tsang, spoken at the (…)

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How can it feel this wrong? The debt-ceiling deal, and after

by NYF Team on August 3, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , , , ,

This week we also announce a new feature, Tweets-of-the-Week, to which we would love you to contribute. More information below. The US debt ceiling debacle reared its head last month, just as markets breathed a sigh of relief on the (…)

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The markets will not derail the euro project: Q&A with Prof. Iain Begg

by NYF Team on July 8, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , , , , ,

Iain Begg is a professorial research fellow and expert on EU integration at the London School of Economics’ European Institute. He spoke to the New York Forum over the phone from Greece, where he was at a meeting to discuss (…)

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Europe: what now?

by NYF Team on July 6, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , , , , , ,

  A round-up of news & opinion. It’s fair to say that things are not looking good in Europe at the moment. This week has seen weak growth in the region’s private sector, British kvetching about attempts to tinker with its (…)

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Greek crisis highlights an interconnected world: Q&A with Mark Gongloff

by NYF Team on July 1, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , , ,

Mark Gongloff is the lead writer on MarketBeat, the Wall Street Journal blog about financial news and trends. In the first of a weekly series of Q&As with experts, he talks to the New York Forum about defaults, Lehman Brothers, and (…)

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Memorable Quotes from the 2011 New York Forum

by NYF Team on June 24, 2011 • Leave your comment

“When we look at talent, and particularly capabilities, around the world, we have a lot more places to look for it today than thirty years ago. There’s the fall of the Iron Curtain … and great institutions are being built. (…)

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Financial Innovation: Moving Ahead

by Speakers and contributors on June 21, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , , , , ,

Financial innovation has kept a lot of Wall Street in the money, but has also given birth to some toxic acronyms over the past years: CDOs, CDSs, and so on.  As a result of the sub prime crisis, there have (…)

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The Chinese Model: Finding its Internal Balance

by Frieda on June 21, 2011 • One comment • Tagged as: , , , , , , , ,

China’s massive expansion over the past three decades has made for tremendous international as well as domestic ramifications. So far there has been stability in this economic growth, but it’s hard to know if that will last with the proliferation (…)

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Unconventional thinking on economics and public policy

by Lance Knobel on April 19, 2010 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: ,

You probably don’t have 45 minutes to listen to a speech on “Economics, Conventional Wisdom and Public Policy,” but you should try to make time for Lord Turner’s speech (shown above). Turner is chair of the Financial Services Authority, Britain’s (…)

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