Bi-annual Country risk survey monitoring political and economic stability of 186 countries
Results revealed
August 2009
Restructuring of synthetic structures basically boils down to shedding all or part of the exposure in order to increase the likelihood of return.
Increased government borrowing is an unsound way to stave off recession. It puts sustained economic growth in peril rather than promoting it.
Attempting to restructure a complex securitization can be a Sisyphean task. Many experts are reaching the conclusion that it might be simpler to push these deals into insolvency instead. Louise Bowman investigates.
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The message from the US government is too inconsistent. The UK government, so long as the buyers are responsible, does not seem to have such hang-ups about private equity ownership of banks. We are quite interested in RBS and Northern Rock. One way or another we will back a UK group or organize a group to try to participate in those events
Wilbur Ross