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The CDO market Functioning and implications in terms of financial stability OLIVIER COUSSERAN Monetary Research and Statistics Directorate IMÈNE RAHMOUNI Financial Stability Coordination Directorate Market and Financial Stability Research Division The result of relatively recent financial innovations, collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) are securities that represent a portfolio of bank loans and/or different financial instruments. Part securitisation instrument part credit derivative

Stephen Harmston Research Study No. 22 GOLD AS A STORE OF VALUE Research Study No. 22 November 1998 WO R LD G O L D CO U NCI L CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..............................................................................3 THE AUTHOR ..............................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................5 1 FIVE COUNTRIES, ONE TALE ..............

World Wealth Report 2008 State of the World’s Wealth ........................................ 2 HNWIs Retrench to Safer, More Familiar Investments ......................................... 14 Green Investing Gains Traction in 2007 ..................................................... 18 HNWIs’ Pursuit of “Passion Investments” Is Not Deterred By Economic Volatility ...................................................... 21 Spotlight: Wealth Management Firms Adapt to Meet Unique Needs of

JETS 47/4 (December 2004) 629-45 BIBLICAL METAPHORS AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT HENRI BLOCHER* Metaphors have been a topic en vogue for several decades. Factors include the so-called "linguistic turn'' of Western thought—Michel Meyer, who teaches at the University of Brussels, suggests "one could speak of a 'rhetoric turn' with Habermas and Perelman, Eco and Gadamer"1—the emphasis on the social sciences, on anthropology, and on the power symbolic systems have to mold minds and behavior;

and, in the German case, the most radical genocide of the last century: the Holocaust. Fascism, in its many forms did not hesitate to kill its own citizens as well as its colonial subjects in its search for ideological and political closure. Millions of civilians perished on a global scale during the apogee of fascist ideologies in Europe and beyond. In historical terms, fascism can be defined as a movement and a regime. Emilio Gentile – who, with Zeev Sternhell and George Mosse,2 is the most insightful

The Meaning of it All Richard Feynman THE MEANING OF IT ALL by Richard P. Feynman Richard P. Feynman was one of this century's most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers. Born in Far Rockaway, New York, in 1918, he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a BS in 1939. He went on to Princeton and received his Ph.D. in 1942. During the war years he worked at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. He became Professor of Theoretical Physics at

through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food — and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It

MAUVOIS 1 Introduction I. The internal analysis company : 1. The history and the evolution of the brand 2. The company ressources 3. The Marketing Mix 4. The marketing facts and the communication tools II. The external analysis company : 1. The demand analysis 2. The big tendencies 3. The competition 4. The five Porter strenghts 5. The SWOT analysis III. The future perspectives 1. Opportunities and perspectives of the spirit market for the five next years 2. Recommandations

together the private search for economic gain with the government’s efforts to supply public goods, correct market failures, and aid the needy. Public choice’s insistence on viewing politicians and government bureaucrats as motivated by the same economic interests as private individuals and firms provides a background for understanding why corruption occurs and why it is difficult to combat. Corruption in my formulation is the misuse of public office for private gain. This definition leaves open the issue