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MF Global Exposes Prop-Trading Risk That Volcker Aims to Curb
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Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Jon Corzine’s risk appetite helped destroy his firm. It also provided an object lesson for Paul Volcker’s campaign against proprietary trading on Wall Street.
Nineteen months after former New Jersey Governor Corzine became chairman and chief executive officer, MF Global Holdings Ltd. yesterday filed for bankruptcy. Corzine’s decision to boost risk-taking, including a $6.3 billion wager with the firm’s own money on European government debt, triggered the collapse.
Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman, pushed to curb wagering by financial firms that have federal guarantees or are so entrenched in markets that they’re deemed too big to fail. Regulators and the industry are wrestling over the fine print in the so-called Volcker rule, which takes effect in 2012. Now, three years after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. failed, MF Global’s implosion and a probe into whether client money is missing may buttress the argument for tighter trading limits....
Hues of Life: Aboriginal and European Relations in Coonardoo
The livestock industry provided a dominant part of Western Australian’s export income from around 1900 until 1960s. Labour for the industry was largely supplied by local Aboriginal population often for subsistence allowances, after they were dispossessed of their land, and hence their traditional mode of living became impossible: “They were forced to accept such employment as their hunting and gathering lifestyle was undermined. [They] found themselves in a tough world … the Aborigines laboured from sunrise to sunset” (Broome 125). The natives were thus transformed from a tribal community to a disadvantaged dependent group. The Aboriginals proved to be skilled stockmen and stockwomen although this was seldom recognized in terms of their payment and conditions. As Henry Reynolds says, “the Aboriginal men who work on the stations are frequently as competent as any white men and yet they receive usually only their...
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SFist Tonight, 10/8: Pam Ann, Rock Photographer Lynn Goldsmith, 'Better a Live ...SFist - Dec 31, 1969
COMEDY: There will be a few tickets available at the door to see Pam Ann aka Australian comedienne Caroline Reid, "the fashion-flying, hard-drinking, A-list hostess to the stars," who's "touching down" in San Francisco after a sell-out 25-date European