But there is probably no institutional set-up which would make the goals of stable inflation and stable finance compatible at all times.
"Particularly during hard times, finance ministers can easily become unpopular, " he says.
In Japan, overdrafts are practically unheard of, and the consumer-finance market is almost six times bigger than the growing but underdeveloped credit-card market.
The Ecofin meeting of the 27 finance ministers is, at times, essentially limited to rubber-stamping agreements reached in the smaller eurozone conference that takes place a day earlier.
Bit by bit, places like thestreet dot com, the Financial Times, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, and other places started publishing them.
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Our global economy, global finance is surviving not the best of times.
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Cochrane is the author of a bible of finance called Asset Pricing but in recent times has been piercing the pieties of macroeconomics.
However, the finance minister said that he thinks the bad times are coming to an end.
London (Financial Times) -- US finance chiefs beware: accountancy's answer to RoboCop will soon be watching you.
As The New York Times recently noted, a couple of finance researchers recently found that you can, in fact, beat the market.
Infrastructure projects in Cornwall paid under the private finance initiative (PFI) will cost nearly six times more than if just government funded, BBC News has learnt.
Sullivan is enormously well-versed in personal finance, which he writes about for the New York Times.
Excluding its listed finance arm, its net debt is 1.9 times its gross operating profit.
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Now 37, Oliver drops in on his half-brother a few times a year while scouring the globe for mega finance deals on which he can give advice as joint global head of UBS Investment Bank's Financial Institutions Group.
Now 37, Oliver drops in on his half-brother a few times a year while scouring the globe for mega finance deals on which he can give advice as joint global head of UBS (nyse: UBS - news - people ) Investment Bank's Financial Institutions Group.
The newly appointed finance spokesperson for Scottish Labour, Ken Macintosh acknowledged the difficult economic times surrounding this draft budget.
For instance, in boom times, when credit flows freely, it is easier to finance the risky innovations that may boost future productivity growth.
Imagine the increase in our cost of finance if we paid the same rate as Spain or Italy (three times as high) or Greece (double digits).
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As finance minister for almost four years until May, he enjoyed the best of economic times.
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Mr Wolf, chief economics commentator for the Financial Times, begins with a truth that is easy to forget: sophisticated finance does bring benefits.
Responding to a question by the Financial Times, the ECB confirmed that Mr Draghi met Mr Grilli at a finance ministry office in Milan, but declined to comment further.
However, this is one reason that depending on the rich to finance government is so ill-advised: Progressive tax rates create mountains of cash during good times that vanish during recessions.
Those in the middle are defined by a relative unpredictability that, in good times, is the source of great optimism, and, in not so good times, is the source of an insecurity that reaches down from the level of personal finance to the level of personal identity.
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As I have written more than a few times in the past, data is pretty boring, but it is at the core of finance and all measurements, from customer profitability in retail banking to risk management in global institutions.
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Like companies, business schools "have to change with the times and go where the market is, " says Anurag Gupta, chair of the banking and finance department at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management.
They're attractively priced. (Except for Pfizer, which sells near 40 times next year's numbers and is too rich.) Other enticing prospects lie with commercial finance companies that aren't overly sensitive to interest--such as Heller and CIT, both of them very cheap.
They're still attractively priced. (Except for Pfizer, which sells near 40 times next year's numbers and is too rich.) Other enticing prospects lie with commercial finance companies that aren't oversensitive to interest rate changes--such as Heller and CIT, both of them very cheap.
On February 27th, Financial Times Advisor featured an article about financial giant HSBC's continued and growing embrace of Shariah-Compliant Finance.
Only last autumn, the Fed had to save world finance by masterminding the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund, and cutting interest rates three times.
After all, times have been tough, and credit card companies were allowed to operate in shady ways prior to personal finance reform legislation taking effect in February 2010.
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