Marginal Revolution: Lords of Finance

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This book traces the efforts of these central bankers to reconstruct the system of international finance after the First World War. It describes how, for a brief period in the mid-1920s, they appeared to succeed; …

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Textron cuts 4Q outlook, to exit finance business - Salon.com

In another move to shrink Textron’s finance unit, Textron Financial Corp., the company said it will liquidate $7.9 billion in assets within its $11.4 billion portfolio, compared with a previous decision to liquidate only …

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The Housing Unwind: Who Suffers? - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon

Tyler Cowen is impressed by this sentence from Paul Krugman: Anyway, it’s striking that the worst of the crisis is hitting states that largely didn’t experience a housing bubble.

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China’s South Beauty Raises CNY300 Million Finance

China’s South Beauty Raises CNY300 Million Finance. December 23, 2008 | By ChinaRetailNews.com Editor | Print This Page | Email This Article. Chinese restaurant chain South Beauty, also known as Qiaojiangnan, has announced that the …

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Matthew Yglesias » The Cost of Finance

I don’t have a great deal to add to Paul Krugman’s great column from yesterday but I just want to make sure everyone reads it. One hopes we can rebuild our economy without such a huge — and hugely profitable — finance sector. …

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App Shopper: GST Calc (Finance)

iPhone and iPod touch app store listings, news, and price drops.

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LIC Housing Finance slashes lending rates - Home - livemint.com

LIC Housing Finance slashes lending rates, LIC Housing Finance has announced a 1.75-2.25 percentage point cut in lending rates for home loans up to Rs20 lakh from 17 December, Home.

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A Year of Chaos in Finance - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture

DealBook is a financial news service reporting on mergers, acquisitions, venture capital and hedge funds and is produced by The New York Times.

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EdCone.com: Forensic finance

How a Clinton-era tax law contributed to the financial crisis: “By itself, the change in the tax law did not cause the housing bubble, economists say. Several other factors — a relaxation of lending standards, a failure by regulators to …

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Yahoo! Finance is Market Leader in Business Information Sites

One of our readers, Marc Jones, asked me to update a blog post that I wrote back on March 19, 2007, entitled, “Yahoo! Finance Market Share 52 times Bigger than Google Finance.” Well, ’tis the season. So, Marc, here’s an update from Matt …

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