Jim Hamilton’s World of Securities Regulation PCAOB’s Constitutionality Argued Before DC Federal Appeals Court

It’s Only Going to Get Worse There are 129 million housing units in the United States, comprising owner-occupied, rented, and vacant units. Of these, 18.5 million are empty. This vacancy rate is 2.5 percentage points higher than it has been at any point in the half century the data have been tracked, translating into at least 3 million too many empty housing units in the country. This number, moreover, is rising. This is the most intractable part of the real estate bubble, for we cannot find a true bottom to home prices until this inventory of empty units starts to clear, and we cannot find a bottom to the mortgage finance market until home prices bottom out.

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globeandmail.com: Streetwise - Small cap financings pulled Small cap companies are struggling to raise money in this risk-averse market, with Antrim Energy and Shear Wind pulling planned financings on Monday.

BCE’s prospects good in SCC - FP Legal Post determining the best interests of the corporation from time to time may involve consideration of a broad range of stakeholders, including shareholders, bondholders, employees, suppliers, creditors, consumers, governments and even the environment.

Alea | New Bond Math: -2 + -2 = 4 Merrill Lynch & Co., Citigroup Inc. and four other U.S. financial companies have used an accounting rule adopted last year to book almost $12 billion of revenue after a decline in prices of their own bonds.

reportonbusiness.com: RBC clients file lawsuit RBC clients file lawsuit Investors given bad advice on long-term bonds, suit claims

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