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Archive for June, 2009
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VIDEO: Erik Lie Research Suggests Bankruptcy Won’t Help GM Much
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009A press release from the University of Iowa that merits attention:
VIDEO: Erik Lie Research Suggests Bankruptcy Won’t Help GM Much: “June 1, 2009
VIDEO: Erik Lie Research Suggests Bankruptcy Won’t Help GM Much
New research by Erik Lie, a finance professor in the Tippie College of Business, suggests today’s bankruptcy filing by General Motors will be of little help to the company’s long-term prospects. In this video, he explains that his study shows most companies declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy emerge too soon and with too much debt to remain competitive with their peer companies.
http://tippie.uiowa.edu/news/media/LieGM.m4v”
(Yes Erik Lie is the professor who broke the post-dating of stock option grants wide open several years ago.)
G.M.’s Big Bankruptcy, by the Numbers - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009More on the story that everyone seems to be talking about.
G.M.’s Big Bankruptcy, by the Numbers - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com:
“…excluding financial companies — which generally have bigger balance sheets than industrial companies — G.M. isn’t the reigning Chapter 11 heavyweight. The largest nonfinancial bankruptcy in United States history is that of WorldCom: when it filed in 2002, it reported about $104 billion in assets. (Many of those “assets” vanished, however, when WorldCom’s accounting fraud was straightened out.)Nevertheless, G.M.’s reorganization will have its place in the record books.
With more than $82 billion in assets, G.M. on Monday became the largest industrial company to file for Chapter 11 protection. Its assets are more than double what Chrysler”
Be sure to see the chart at the bottom of the NY Times article.
Answers to Some Questions About G.M.’s Case - NYTimes.com
Monday, June 1st, 2009Answers to Some Questions About G.M.’s Case - NYTimes.com:
“General Motors followed Chrysler into bankruptcy on Monday in a case that will be one of the largest and most complex in history. It hopes to follow the same path Chrysler has taken through court, but there will be some differences between the two cases. Here is a quick look at some basics of the G.M. bankruptcy.”
Chart showing difference in economic classes and speed of adoption
Monday, June 1st, 2009Two charts that tell interesting stories.
The first is a fascinating look at how money is spent by different wealth classes. For instance, the lowest 20% spends about a third of the top 20% on food, but about a fifth on entertainment etc.
The second chart is shows how much faster new technologies have been adopted recently. (look for steeper lines).
Thanks to SimoleonSense for pointing this out (probably my favorite blogger) and the people at ThinkorSwim for making it available. (BTW as an aside, ThinkorSwim has a very high number of SBU grads working there! Great place.
Fed independence
Monday, June 1st, 2009Central Bank independence is important for the long term health of any economy. That has been fairly well established. Indeed, in the early 1990s Laurance Summers (and others) argued the importance of Fed independence for keeping inflation in check.
Why? Governments (read politicians) have an incentive to grow the money supply very quickly for short term gains at the expense of longer term inflation. Without the independence it is generally the case that
By Scott Beaulier and William Mounts in the WSJ: Obama Should Reaffirm Fed Independence - WSJ.com:
“While understanding the Great Depression is crucial, there is another event in America’s monetary history that must be remembered: The ‘Accord’ of 1951. In this case, Mr. Bernanke should aim to repeat the past.The accord struck between the Fed and the Treasury in March 1951 fundamentally changed the relationship between the two bodies that had developed during World War II.”
and later
“Without a firm commitment by the Obama administration to maintain central-bank independence at all costs, the Fed may become subordinate to the Treasury as it institutes the president’s expansive plans to inject government into the economy. If this is the case (to paraphrase Milton Friedman) fiscal deficits will always and everywhere mean inflation.”
It should also be noted however that Summers also later wrote that there seemed to be less relationship between Central Bank independence and unemployment rates and other real economic data.