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# 1515 EMERGING MARKETS & PRIVATE EQUITY

 

GUESTS:  Sarah Alexander, President, EMERGING MARKETS PRIVATE EQUITY ASSOCIATION, Aglae Touchard, Chargee d’Affairs, Fund Management, PROPARCO, French Development Agency, Teresa Barger, Managing Director, CARICA CAPITAL

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  CHANGES TO EM PE INVESTMENT STRATEGY

2.                  PRIVATE CAPITAL FLOWS

3.                  FUNDRAISING EVOLUTION IN U.S.

4.                  CHINA AND INDIA CONTINUE TO LEAD LP INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

5.                  LIMITED PARTNERS NOT RE-INVESTING WITH GENERAL PARTNERS

6.                  FACTORS LIKELY TO DETER LPS FROM REINVESTING NEXT 12 MONTHS

7.                  CHANGE IN OVERALL RISK OF EM PE

8.                  RISK PREMIUM RISES

9.                  OUTWARD FDI FLOW

10.              CAPITAL CONSTRAINT IS PRIMARY REASON LPS REDUCE COMMITMENTS

11.              DESPITE INCREASED RISK, LPS PLAN TO INCREASE EXPOSURE

 

MEDIA MATTERS

 

GUEST:  Jeanie Clark, Founder, STEEL CORSET PRODUCTIONS

 

 

# 1514 SMALL BUSINESS AND STIMULUS SPENDING

 

GUESTS:  Eric Dobyne, Regional Director, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Minority Business Development Agency, Steven Rogers, Director, Levy Institute for Entrepreneurial Practice, KELLOG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, Robert Colorina, Director, AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL ACQUISITION CORPORATION, Michael Granger, Chairman, CEO CAPITAL ACCESS FORUM

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING

2.                  INFRASTRUCTURE: PRODUCTIVE SPENDING

3.                  WHO PAYS FOR IT ALL?

4.                  RAIL USE GROWING

5.                  FUNDS FOR TRANSIT CAPITAL EXPENDITURES

6.                  $819 BILLION INFRASTRUCTURE BILL

7.                  OBSTACLES TO INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING

8.                  CONGRESS SPENDS $410 BILLION OMNIBUS

9.                  POTENTIAL U.S. SMALL BANK LOSSES

10.              U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE TRAND ’99-‘09

11.              THE BAILOUT IN BROAD TERMS

12.              BANK BAILOUTS

13.              WHAT IS TARP MONEY BEING SPENT ON?

14.              BANK LOSSES TO EXCEED $2 TRILLION

15.              LOCAL AND REGIONAL REQUESTS

16.              AMERICAN RAILS LAG THE WORLD

17.              U.S. RAIL SYSTEM IS TWO CENTURY OLD

18.              U.S. AND JAPANESE GOVERNMENT DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC AS A PERCENTAGE OF GDP, ’91-‘08

19.              ROADS TO NOWHERE

20.              LAST BIG HIGHWAY SPENDING PROGRAM – ½ CENTURY OLD

21.              LOBBYING EFFORTS

 

MEDIA MATTERS

 

GUEST:  Carol Bidault de l’Isle, Partner, MEDIA FUSION

 

 

# 1513 ASIA AND THE GLOBAL RECOVERY: CAN CHINA SAVE THE WORLD ECONOMY?

 

GUESTS:  Mark DeWeaver, Partner, QUANTRARIAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Masahiro Kawai, CEO, ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK INSTITUTE, Woo Yuen Pau, President, ASIA PACIFIC FOUNDATION OF CANADA, Chair, PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION COUNCIL

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  CHINA SHANGAI SE A SHAREXX: SHASHR (INDEX)

2.                  CHINA’S GDP DECELERATING MUCH FASTER THAN THE ’97-’98 ASIA CRISIS

3.                  WORLD BANK SLASHES CHINA GDP GROWTH

4.                  DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS, VS CHINA SHANGAI (INDEX)

5.                  CHINA RELIES ON ITS ECPORT MACHINE

6.                  WORLD TRADE TO FALL 9% IN 2009, COMPARED TO 4.6% GROWTH IN 1999

7.                  CHINA’S EXPORTS IN FREE FALL

8.                  REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT GROWTH SLOWS DRAMATICALLY

9.                  FOREIGN BANKS BAILING OUT

10.              WORLD’S LARGEST ECONOMIES 2050

11.              FOUR TRILLION YUAN STIMULUS PROGRAM

12.              CHINA’S STIMULUS CNY 4 TR ($586 BN)

13.              STIMULUS EFFECTS WILL BE MUTED

14.              WORLDWIDE GDP COLLAPSES

15.              CAN CHINA ADD JOBS AND CONSUME?

16.              A “W” RATHER THAN A “V” – SHAPED BOTTOM

17.              GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT ONLY 1/3 OF TOTAL

18.              THE TRADE WARS BEGIN

19.              BANK CREDIT AND CASH UNABLE TO HELP

20.              CHINA ECONOMIC RECOVERY? DOUBTFUL

21.              STIMULUS SPAWNS CORRUPTION ANXIETY

22.              CORRUPTION STILL PROBLEM

23.              CHINA’S LEADER “WORRIED” OVER U.S. TREASURIES

24.              CHINA’S PURCHASE OF U.S. TREASURIES SLOWS TO A TRICKLE

25.              IMPORTANCE OF STRENGHTENING REGIONAL COOPERATION

26.              % RESPONDENTS WHO EXPECTED WEAKER TO MUCH WEAKER ECONOMIC GROWTH FOR THE GLOBAL ECONOMY OVER THE NEXT 12 MONTHS

27.              THE GLOBAL CRISIS WILL ACCELERATE THE PACE OF ASIAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND COOPERATION

28.              THE US ECONOMY WILL RECOVER FROM THE ECONOMIC CRISIS TO RESUME ITS LEADING POSITION IN THE WORLD ECONOMY?

29.              WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH OVER THE NEXT 12 MONTHS?

30.              ECONOMIC STIMULUS AND RECOVERY PACKAGES % RESPONDENTS WHO WERE SATISFIED (NET-SATISFIED MINUS DISSATISFIED)

31.              EXPECTATIONS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH NEXT 12 MONTHS COMPARED WITH PAST YEAR?

32.              IMPACT OF DEEPER REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

33.              RATE THE FOLLOWING RISKS TO GROWTH FOR THE ASIA PACIFIC OVER THE NEXT 12 MONTHS?

 

 

# 1512 BANK “STRESS” TEST: OR PHONY BANK EXAM

 

GUESTS:   DOUGLAS REDIKER, NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION and MARTIN WEISS of WEISS RESEARCH

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  BANK BAILOUTS

2.                  HEDGE FUND MANAGER MOCKS BANKERS

3.                  AMERICA’S TRANSFORMATION TO A “FINANCIAL” ECONOMY

4.                  CHANGE IN BANKRUPTCY RULE MAY HAVE LED TO DEFAULTS

5.                  ASSETS HELD AT FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

6.                  WEISS EVALUATION OF STRESS TESTS

7.                  WEISS EVALUATION

8.                  WEISS EVALUATION

9.                  WEISS EVALUATION

10.              ACCOUNTING GAMES BEGIN

11.              MARK-TO-MARKET TOXIC ASSETS

12.              U.S. OVERPAID FOR BANK TOXIC ASSETS

13.              WEISS EVALUATION

14.              WEISS EVALUATION

15.              “SUBPRIME” IS TINY IN THE BIG PICTURE

16.              THE FED’S FOOLISH ASSUMPTIONS

17.              OOPS! FED ADJUSTS GDP DOWNWARD, BAILOUT TOTAL UP

18.              DERIVATIVES MARKETS SKYROCKET!

19.              GOVERNMENT FUNDS COMMITTED TO DATE, GROWS AND GROWS

20.              BANK LOSSES TO EXCEED $2 TRILLION

21.              BAILING OUT THOSE WHO CAUSED THE CRISIS

22.              U.S. GOVERNMENT/BANKS STILL FACE MAJOR LOSSES/DEBT ISSUE

23.              TOTAL ANNUAL DEFICIT, OR SURPLUS AS SHARE OF U.S. GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT

 

 

# 1511 WILL OBAMA’S IMAGE PROMOTE BETTER TRADE FOR THE U.S?

 

GUESTS:  Pierre Vimont, FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S., Klaus Scharioth, GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S., Petr Kolar, CZECH AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S., Mikail Gorbachev, Former Secretary General of the SOVIET UNION, Former President of the RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Imad Moustapha, AMBASSADOR OF SYRIA, John Bruton, DELEGATION TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Doug Berry, US COMMERCIAL SERVICES, U.S. Department of Commerce

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  OPINIONS ON THE US MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

2.                  VIEWS OF THE UNITED STATES’ INFLUENCE

3.                  CONFIDENCE IN BUSH

4.                  CONFIDENCE IN PUTIN

5.                  PREDICTED CHANGES IN US RELATIONS WITH WORLD DUE TO ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA

6.                  PRIORITIES FOR THE NEW US ADMINISTRATION

7.                  EVEN LOSING OUR CLOSEST FRIENDS

8.                  “WAR WORTH FIGHTING” – SINCE 4/03

9.                  ARAB VIEWS

10.              OPINIONS OF THE US GOVERNMENT’S HANDLING OF...

 

MEDIA MATTERS:

 

GUEST:   ANDY EDMUNDS, THE INTERNATIONAL FILM INDUSTRY IN VIRGINIA

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  MOVIE TICKET SALES AND PRICES RISE

2.                  2009 STARTS WITH A LION’S ROAR

3.                  SUCCESS FORMULA: FUND AND DUMB

4.                  FILM PRODUCTION TO FALL

 

 

#1509 THE AIG SCANDAL AND RAMPANT FRAUD IN FINANCIAL/INVESTMENT INSTITUTIONS

 

GUESTS:  GEORGE SOROS, SOROS FOUNDATION, ROBERT JOHNSON, SOROS FUNDS, ALAN GREENSPAN, Frmr. FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN, BILL DANZELL, AUTHOR: "GIMMIE BACK MY MONEY"

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  Bush W. Bailout – Tarp I

2.                  Change in bankruptcy rule

3.                  America’s transformation to a “financial” economy

4.                  Government funds committed to date, grows and grows

5.                  Derivatives Markets skyrocket

6.                  Assets held at financial intermediaries

7.                  Bailing out who caused the crisis

8.                  Upcoming bond  defaults expected to set record

9.                  Commercial delinquencies soar

10.              Commercial mortgage securities defaults rise

11.              Hedge fund extinction

12.              More shoes to drop in 2009

13.              U.S. overpaid for bank toxic assets

14.              Tarp said to be ripe for fraud

15.              Bank losses to exceed $ 2 Trillion

16.              Pricing toxic assets for the fed?

17.              U.S. Government/Bank still face major losses\debt issue

18.              AIG “rebranding” its name

19.              Bank bailouts

20.              No bonuses for Wall Street

21.              One trillion dollars

22.              AIG taxpayer bailout cash to foreign clients

23.              Bailout recipients owe uncle Sam taxes

24.              Bank may have to replace Ceo’s

25.              Senator Dodd in trouble

26.              Risk management

27.              Spreading “tarp” over a leaking roof

28.              Tarp money

29.              “Subprime” is tiny in the big picture

30.              Presidential Approval Index

31.              Give President Obama a grade

32.              No confidence in congress

33.              Why Congress bailout Wall Street, rather than main street?

34.              2008 top recipient of AIG contributions

35.              The best government money can buy

36.              Behind the AIG bonuses

37.              Summers has sticky ties to Wall Street

38.              Treasury dept

39.              Accounting games begin

40.              Total Annual deficit

 

 

#1508 CAN CHINA OR THE G-20 SAVE THE WORLD ECONOMY?

 

GUEST:  ALAN TONELSON, Chief Economist, U S BUSINESS & INDUSTRY COUNCIL

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  G20 meeting and mixed results

2.                  “Bric equity markets 2009

3.                  World Bank slashes China GDP GROWTH

4.                  U.S. trade deficit with China continues

5.                  China’s export in free fall

6.                  China relies on its export machine

7.                  Four Trillion Yuan stimulus program

8.                  Stimulus effects will be muted

9.                  Stimulus spawns corruption anxiety

10.              Corruption still problem

11.              Bank credit and cash unable to  help

12.              Can China add jobs and consume?

13.              China economy recovery

14.              China’s purchase of U.S. treasuries slows to a trickle

15.              China’s leader “worried” over U.S. treasuries

16.              Foreign banks bailing out

17.              G-20 “stimulus”

18.              The trade wars begin

 

#1507 TAX EVASION IN THE U.S.

GUEST: Raymond Baker, Managing Director, GLOBAL FINANCIAL INTEGRITY

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  BAILOUT TOTALS

2.                  TAX GAP UNCOLLECTED

3.                  TAX SCHEMES

4.                  CAYMAN ISLAND STILL LEADS

5.                  EVASION DESTINATION SPREADING WORLDWIDE

6.                  NON-OECD

7.                  SWISS BANKING

8.                  FINANCIAL OUTFLOWS

9.                  AMERIDEBT

10.              HEDGE FUNDS

11.              U.S. TAX DODGERS USE INFRASTRUCTURE

12.              FEDS PROMOTE SOME DODGING

13.              FAR REACHING TAX SCHEMES

14.              IRS REQUIRES TIPS

15.              IRS SEEKS RECORDS ON EVERYBODY

16.              IT’S THE WEALTHY STUPID

17.              UBS GAME PLAN

18.              EUROPEAN TAX HAVENS

19.              SLAP ON THE FINGERS

20.              AGENCY HEADS: FINE EXAMPLES

21.              WEAK CONGRESSIONAL EFFORTS

22.              MISPLACED RESOURCES

23.              AUDITS FALL SHORT

24.              CRIMINAL CHARGES FEW AND FAR AWAY

25.              ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

26.              DERIVATIVE PUZZEL

27.              INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT

28.              ILLICITS BIGGEST MOVERS

29.              TOP 7

 

 

#1506 MORTGAGE FRAUD: THE OTHER REASON BEHIND THE HOUSING CRISIS

 

GUEST:  JOHN MURPHY, CEO of MARCOR INVESTIGATIONS INC.

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  Existing Home Sales, 2005-2008

2.                  Defaults, Swimming, Foreclosures

3.                  Properties in Foreclosur 2006-2009

4.                  Seeds of the financial crisis

5.                  Fannie Mae Loosened Standard in 1999

6.                  Mortgage originations

7.                  Mortgage fraud  pervasive

8.                  Quick defaults smell of fraud

9.                  The mortgage broker

10.              Option arm’s defaults soar

11.              Housing push for hispanics lod to wave of foreclosures

12.              The Yleld spread premium

13.              Banks add to mortgage arms loss reserves

14.              Growth in mortgage loan fraud

15.              Majority of loans for “affordable housing goals”

16.              “Liar loans”

17.              Mortgage investigations soar

18.              President’s plan to stem foreclosure surge

19.              Mortgage “cramdown” plan

20.              Still trouble closing the mortgage “barn door”

21.              Subprime litigation climbs

22.              Less than prime market is big equity backing home mortgages

23.              Ahead for 2009-2012

 

 

#1505 GLOBALIZATION AND CONVERGENCE OF TELEVISION WITH THE COMPUTER

 

GUESTS:  JOHN & MORGAN LANGLEY, LANGLEY PRODUCTIONS(“COPS”); TONI LEIPONEN, CEO/CO-FOUNDER, THE ICAREUS GROUP; KALEIL  ISAZA TUZMAN, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, ROO GROUP, DUBAI MEDIA CITY

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  Bush W. Bailout – Tarp I: larger than any in history

2.                  Bonuses to record heights

3.                  Bailout Vs other spending programs

4.                  A growing profession

5.                  Total Financial Bailout

6.                  Washington decides Detroit’s fate?

7.                  The bailout in broad terms

8.                  Tarp said to be ripe for fraud

9.                  Commercial rents U.S. 2008

10.              Retail sales

11.              Home price retreat in cities with largest gains

12.              Virginia sales jumped in 2008

13.              Median household incomes rank at top of the nation

14.              Bailout costs thus for 2008|2009

 

 

#1504 COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE’S TEETERING CRANES

 

GUESTS:  SIGRID ZAILCITA, Head Research, Washington, D.C., CUSHMAN WAKEFIELD REAL ESTATE

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  Global Commercial Rents

2.                  Commercial delinquencies soar

3.                  Inventories are growing fast

4.                  China’s trade slumps

5.                  Commercial rents U.S. $ 2008

6.                  Lenders grapple over Chicago’s Hancock tower debt

7.                  Lehman brothers’ commercial real estate legacy

8.                  Commercial mortgage securities default rise

9.                  Upcoming bond defaults expected to set record

10.              Home prices retreat in cities with largest gains

 

 

#1503 CARIBBEAN’S ECONMIC CRISIS

 

GUESTS:  ALVARO CASSERLY, Frm. Chair, JAMAICAN STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUSTE RIMPEL, Trustee, CARIBBEAN/CENTRAL AMERICAN ACTION, SAMUAL MARTIN, Chair, TRINIDAD/TOBAGO HERITAGE AND STABILIZATION FUND, PABLO BREARD, V.P. Research, Head, SCOTIA CAPITAL

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  Central America: 2008 GDP Growth

2.                  Caribbean States: 2008 GDP Growth

3.                  Fastest Growing Export Markets for U.S.

4.                  Gross Domestic Products

5.                  U.S. Runs a trade surplus with neighbor el Salvador

6.                  Fastest Growing Trade Partners with U.S.

7.                  Central America: on even trading partner with U.S.

 

 

#1502 CENTRAL AMERICA’S CAPITAL CRUNCH

 

GUESTS:  PAT MINICUCCI, Sr. V.P. SCOTIA BANK, ANGELA BROCK, Partner, INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL GROUP, JOHN RODRIQUEZ, V.P. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL BANKERS ASSOCIATION, JORGE ROLDAN, Division Chief, INTER-AMERICAN INVESTMENT CORPORTATION

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  Central America: 2008 GDP Growth

2.                  Caribbean States: 2008 GDP Growth

3.                  Fastest Growing Export Markets for U.S.

4.                  Gross Domestic Products

5.                  U.S. Runs a trade surplus with neighbor el Salvador

6.                  Fastest Growing Trade Partners with U.S.

7.                  Central America: on even trading partner with U.S.

 

 

#1500 FINANCIAL MARKET’S DAM BURSTING

 

GUESTS:  NEAL SULLIVAN, Former Executive Director, NORTH AMERICAN SECURITIES ADMINISTRATORS ASSOCIATION, MARY GODSHALL, Financial Correspondent, Reuters, Bloomberg, Forbes, BRAD SHERMAN, (D-CA) HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE, STEPHEN HARBECK, President, SIPC, Lynn Tilton, CEO of PATRIARCH PARTNERS.

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  U.S. Economic Indicators

2.                  Dow Jones Industrial Average 10 – Years Performance

3.                  S.E.C.`s misplaced priorities

4.                  S.I.P.C. Funds Vs Liabilities

5.                  The financial flood

6.                  S.E.C. Examined Madoff`s $ 50 billion hedge fund over and over again

7.                  President Obama now supporting additional bailout funding

8.                  U.S. debt indicators

9.                  Spreading “Tarp” Over a leaking roof

10.              Tarp money being spent on

11.              Bank losses to exceed $ 2 trillion

12.              Wall Street has plenty of capital

13.              Questions of “inside” favors, connections with regulators

14.              Why did congress bailout Wall Street, rather than main street?

15.              Wall Streets bailout

16.              The infamous “S.I.V.”

17.              No precedent in U.S. history

18.              Toxic debt

19.              Americas transformation to a “financial” economy

20.              Credit default swaps out of control

21.              Derivatives markets explode

22.              Debt

23.              Financial history lesson

24.              Separating conflicts of interests

25.              Wall Street Morphs – into banking

26.              More shoes to drop in 2009

27.              Obama’s choice to head the S.E.C.

 

 

# 1417 U.S.TRADE POLICY WITH CHINA

 

GUESTS:  William Hawkins, United States Business & Industry Council; Ambassador Susan Schwab, U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATITIVE; Yi Gang, Assistant Governor THE PEOPLE’S BANK OF CHINA; Zhou Wenzhong, Ambassador CHINESE EMBASSY TO THE U.S.

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  U.S TRADE BALANCE (DEFICITS)

2.                  U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES

3.                  HUGE TRADE GAP

4.                  U.S TRADE DEFICITS: BY NATION

5.                  FOREIGN EXCHANGE HOLDINGS (In billions of U.S. $)

6.                  U.S TRADE REPRESENTATIVES WIN SMALL VICTORIES WITH CHINESE

7.                  CHINA OUT-BIDS RIVALS TO ACQUIRE WORLD’S LARGEST MINING COMPANY

8.                  ACQUISITION OF TECHNOLGIES AND HIGH-TECH KNOWHOW

9.                  U.S. TRADE DEFICIT WITH CHINA BROADENING TO “HIGH VALUE”

10.              USURPNG FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY

11.              CHINESE BUILDING OWN AIRCRAFT

12.              INWARD INVESTMENT CONTINUES INTO CHINA

13.              FIRST TRADE?

14.              CHINA’S LOBBYING EFFORT

15.              TECH SALES TO CHINA QUESTIONED

16.              CHINA SIMPLY SAYS NO TO THE U.S

17.              FIG. 1 CHINA TARGET INTEREST RATE VS. FED TARGET RATE

18.              IF CHINA “REBALANCES” ITS RESERVES

19.              MOVES SLOWLY ON EXCHANGE RATES

20.              CHINESE OIL PRODUCTION AND DEMAND <BARRELS PER DAY(M)>

21.              CHINA ACQUIRING FINANCIAL ASSETS

22.              CHINESE CARS COMING TO U.S. SOON

23.              CHINA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH IN PERSPECTIVE

24.              TECH SALES TO CHINA QUESTIONED

25.              CHINESE ROCKET SCIENCE

26.              MILITARY GROWS IN CAPABILITIES

27.              CHINA VS U.S IN CYBER WAR

28.              WORLD’S LARGEST ECONOMIES 2050

29.              “INTERNATIONAL INVESTOR” ASKS: WHAT IF U.S POLICY REVERSED?

 

  

# 1416 THE SECRET WORLD OF PRIVATE CAPITAL:           PRIVATE EQUITY, HEDGE FUNDS, SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS AND TODAY’S GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS

 

GUESTS:  Thomas Puetter, ALLIANZ CAPITAL PARTNERS; David Rubenstein, CARLYLE GROUP; David Hale, HALE ADVISORS (Chicago)

 

SLIDES:

 

1.                  “PRIVATE CAPITAL” TAES SEVERAL FORMS

2.                  DOWNSIDES OF PRIVATE EQUITY

3.                  CURRENT OVERSIGHT OF INTERBATIONAL RELATIONS INADEQUATE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

4.                  ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT (In $ Trillions)

5.                  FIRESALE: BANKS SELL EQUITY STAKES TO RAISE RESERVE CAPITAL

6.                  PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS WEAVE A TANGLED WEB OR RELATIONSHIPS

7.                  HEDGE FUNDS: “CONS” ON THE FEDS

8.                  KL GROUP ACCUSED