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Beauty and the Borrower
By Colin Gustafson | Fri, 14 Mar 2008 at 11:04 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: Beautiful people are more likely to get loans and to pay less interest than average-looking borrowers with near-identical credit credentials, a New York University associate professor of finance, Enrichetta Ravina, finds in a paper cited this week on the ...

Why Pete Rose Didn't Fare Better in His Bets
By Colin Gustafson | Mon, 10 Mar 2008 at 10:17 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: Insider knowledge doesn't always bring a higher payoff — especially when inside experts try to cheat in a market full of other, well-informed participants. That's the conclusion of a paper written by a Rutgers University economist, Douglas Coate, and ...

Fedspeak as Balm for Investors
By Colin Gustafson | Mon, 10 Mar 2008 at 10:14 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: When the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, speaks tomorrow about mortgage foreclosures, pay attention to his words. Fedspeak is a language of its own, as lawmakers saw when Mr. Bernanke presented a stark picture of the American economy to ...

Facts About NAFTA and Jobs
By Colin Gustafson | Wed, 5 Mar 2008 at 6:03 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The leading Democratic presidential candidates have been arguing that the North American Free Trade Agreement has devastated America's workforce by allowing Canada and Mexico to siphon off manufacturing jobs. But a University of Michigan professor, Mark ...