Sentences with phrase «financial folly»

The gossips columns are having a field day with this, but I wonder if Carter's financial folly really reflects how he feels about his dog.

I am in the process of reviewing This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly — a book that deals with the reality of sovereign defaults over the last 800 years.

This is a short book that in some ways is a summary of Reinhart and Rogoff's greater work This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.

As house prices fall, a huge amount of financial folly is being exposed.

A nice litte write - up about «This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly,» a new book by two economics professors.

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff — $ 9.18 (or rental from $ 4.03)

His 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly has been widely cited by academics, policymakers and journalists, while its massive data set has been extensively used by researchers worldwide.

If you want to buy the book, you can buy it here: This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.

Another financial folly?

The tendency of humans to avoid the obvious in their financial follies is well documented.

Conversely, some of the greatest financial follies have also occurred in the hedge fund industry, whether it be the collapse of Long Term Capital Management or the Ponzi - scheme fallout of Bernie Madoff's Ascot Partners.

Not exact matches

History is ambiguous, and every financial mania is unique, the product of the peculiar folly of its time.

The former, temporarily checked by the enormity of the financial crash they engineered, have now come roaring back, loading the sacrifices necessary because of their own folly on to their victims.

Apple and I assume Amazon need to include in their financial statements the number, cost, and delay time of the returns, so authors and publishers can take this EU - folly into account in their pricing.

And despite the financial crisis, the spending never stopped... In Apr - 2008, management actually embarked on a brand new investment folly (solar energy) with an initial USD 100 million deal to purchase a controlling interest in Stirling Energy Systems.

Investors seeking financial gains are best suited to buying real estate, which is, despite its follies, one of the steadiest investments on the market.

But because he did not get everything EXACTLY right and because financial reporters did not know enough to ask for confidence limits, John Bogle's predictions are treated as folly.

Loyola 2L's experience teaches a valuable lesson that transcends his more limited point about the folly of taking on massive law school debt in a job market that offers no guarantee of financial success.

However, I nixed that in favor of my second favorite passage: Ely's conclusion (also edited) where he promises that» [U.S. Dollars and Venezuelan Bolivars] and the like will quickly fade into financial history, just as tulipmania [and the German mark, the Argentinian peso and the Zimbabwean dollar] did, serving solely to remind future generations of the folly of gambling on illusions of value [like fiat currency].»