NEWSLETTER

Fall 2008

• Volume 12: Issue 4
• Volume 12: Issue 3
• Volume 12: Issue 2
• Volume 12: Issue 1

Informational Docments

• Article: Notes From the Maelstrom
• Article: Can't Run Can't Hide Crisis Management
• Article: What If IFRS Replaced GAAP?
• Article: Finance in History
• Article: A Decade Of Disruption
• Other: Professor Kamp's Financial Turmoil Info

Excerpt from our weekly newsletter.

Unease on Main Street

Analysts are trying to decipher how all the rhetoric could translate into action in a new Administration. "We're going to get some sort of financial regulatory bill in 2009," says Dan Clifton, a Washington-based analyst with Strategas Research Partners, a New York investment research firm. "The question is, what will it look like? Obama says he'll reject Bush's deregulation philosophy. McCain says he'll reform Washington and Wall Street. We're waiting for their specific plans." Clifton says analysts are trying to discern whether, if elected, McCain would adopt a "pragmatic" agenda that would "balance regulation with growth," or whether he would extend Bush's legacy. "That's the big wild card about John McCain." Obama, Clifton says, is more predictable: "He's clearly about regulation."

Original Article by: Moira Herbst
Businessweek.com