Globe & Mail: A call for long-term thinking

Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Monday, January 17, 2011
http://www.globeadvisor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/gam/20101019/RBBLACKROCKFINKERMANATL
BOYD ERMAN and TIM KILADZE - Tuesday, October 19, 2010

TORONTO -- Larry Fink worries that Americans are putting their economy at risk by neglecting the future.

The founder of BlackRock Inc., the world's largest asset management company, isn't keeping the concern to himself, either. "The biggest weakness I think we have in America is we have forgotten the long term," Mr. Fink said in a recent interview ...


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BNN: Experts see more trouble for U.S. real estate

Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Monday, January 17, 2011
http://www.bnn.ca/News/2010/10/6/Experts-see-more-trouble-for-US-real-estate.aspx
Reuters | October 6, 2010

Commercial real estate is where the action will be next year, restructuring and bankruptcy experts said at the Reuters Restructuring Summit summit on Wednesday.

"I call it a slow-motion train wreck," James Sprayregen, a restructuring partner at law firm Kirkland & Ellis, said in New York. "That's probably where I think you're going to see more action than anything over the n...


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