Month: December 2009

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2008/9 Financial Crisis: A Lot to Learn On Bailouts and Too Big To Fail Companies In Order To Draft New Regulation

I.                 Introduction

Some basic financial concepts and the facts surrounding the 2008/9 economic crisis constitute the first stage of this article.

The analysis of certain characteristics and effects of the Bailouts and of having Too Big To Fail Companies in the market is what follows.

Finally, I will go into different opinions and strategies addressing main issues that are a challenge for the regulation to be enacted in order to prevent these kind crises and deal with the legacy of the bailouts. What to do with Too Big To Fail Companies is part of that approach.

It is a side goal of this article to make the topic in question and the issues arising from it, accessible not only to those with a background in law and finance but especially to people without it.

 

II.               Concepts: Money, Markets, Bubbles, 

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Comcast and NBC Universal: The Implications of Big Media Mergers in an Increasingly Smaller World

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I.
Introduction
     
Comcast's proposed takeover of NBC Universal is expected to completely
restructure the entertainment industry's landscape. Analysts, investors, and
public interest groups alike have responded strongly to the anticipated
agreement, which is expected to be finalized imminently. The merger of the
largest American cable company with one of the largest entertainment
enterprises in the world would give the combined entity control over
approximately one out of every five viewing hours in the United States. [1] Not
surprisingly, the deal will be heavily scrutinized and raise considerable
questions of antitrust law, media diversity, and the future of internet usage.
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