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How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
...eren't going to do anything to mess with the revenue machine.' " Writing in the New Yorker, James Surowiecki says fixing up the system won't be easy because various US administrations have made the...
Soros invests $1 billion in clean energy
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
...ce on climate change, something I covered in blogs here and here . As New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki points out here , corporations are starting to realize that few companies are going to b...
Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
... the stress tests themselves; regulators will check the results." The New Yorker's James Surowiecki says analysts keep posting wrong forecasts on fundamentals like unemployment. Why is it ...
Volatility rules
in Sox First, on September 14, 2008
...awking, but for everyone else, it's just frustrating. We can expect this to continue. As James Surowiecki reminds us in the New Yorker , we better get used to it. Volatility is significantly gre...
The Fed, the Bear and moral hazard
in Sox First, on March 25, 2008
...ings, the government will bail them out. We are in a systemic financial crisis." Still, James Surowiecki in the New Yorker says that while the bail out does run the risk of moral hazard, there...
Insurers: the latest subprime victims
in Sox First, on February 24, 2008
... important? Simply because of the flow through effect on the market. As the New Yorker's James Surowiecki pointed out in an excellent column this month, one of the curious features of bond insu...
Bonuses and subprime
in Sox First, on December 4, 2007
...the bonuses contribute to the subprime meltdown? That certainly seems to be the message from James Surowiecki in his piece Performance Pay Perplexes published a few weeks ago in the New Yorker. Ba...
Bailout warnings
in Sox First, on September 4, 2007
...y do more damage by flooding the market with cheap money? That is a very real danger, warns James Surowiecki in the New Yorker . As he rightly points out, there is something unseemly watching these ...
DaimlerChrysler: another merger disaster waiting to happen
in Sox First, on February 21, 2007
...tdown." And of course, there were warnings at the time. This one, from finance writer James Surowiecki , is quite prescient. "Certainly 'synergy' is the word on the lips and the ...
Sarbanes-Oxley: is that really a wolf at the door?
in Sox First, on January 30, 2007
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James Surowiecki has been a long-time defender of corporate regulation. Not surprisingly, he now condemns the doomsayers who say Sarbanes-0xley is destroying the American markets. They are out of...
The governance of FIFA's fiefdom
in Sox First, on June 29, 2006
...tion by Swiss authorities on bribery allegations . Writing in The New Yorker, finance writer James Surowiecki looks at FIFA's model of governance that underpins venal self-dealing and influence ...
SOX a tip of the compliance iceberg
in Sox First, on March 9, 2006
...es-Oxley represents just a fraction of compliance costs won't wash with business. But as James Surowiecki pointed out in a good piece last year , the costs are a lot more without the enforcement...
More headaches for accountants
in Sox First, on November 19, 2005
...s who separate the good from the bad. They are supposed to ensure trust, a point well made by James Surowiecki in The New Yorker three years ago. Markets rely on trust, and accountants play an impor...
Heard of the Hot Hand Fund? What About Prediction Markets?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 29, 2005
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If you have read James Surowiecki's book, "The Wisdom of Crowds", you might be interested in this post (Surowiecki's basic thesis is this: "large groups of people are smar...