Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST

naked capitalism: "Fears mount in Japan over complex yen products"

power reverse dual currency notes (PRDC) sold concealing hugely complex structures with ``multiple points of pain''

complex yen products; fears mounting; Japan; naked capitalism.

Tue 2008-10-28 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: S&P: "We'd Do a Deal Structured by Cows" And Other Rating Agency Dirty Linen

naked capitalism: S&P: "We'd Do a Deal Structured by Cows" And Other Rating Agency Dirty Linen

cows; deal structure; naked capitalism; P; Rating Agency Dirty Linen; s.

Wed 2008-07-23 00:00 EDT

The use of phrases and structured queries in information retrieval

by W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle, and David D. Lewis (1991)

information retrieving; Phrases; Structured Query; use.

Tue 2008-07-08 00:00 EDT

protobuf - Google Code

-- Protocol Buffers encode structured data; XML alternative; Google in-house protocol

Google Code; ProtoBuf.

Thu 2008-07-03 00:00 EDT

Information Arbitrage: Straight-talk on FAS 157: Blackstone and their Banker Buddies Have it Wrong

gap management; "Trading risk becomes liquidity risk when you can't trade...Do real stress-testing of liquidity scenarios and construct a capital structure that address much of the liquidity risk posed by non-standard assets...So why do risk managers and bank managements' so consistently make bad decisions? Probably because there is an over-reliance on measures that are seemingly quantifiable."

Banker Buddies; Blackstone; FAS 157; Information Arbitrage; straight-talking; wrong.

Thu 2008-07-03 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Moody's Sacks Structured Finance Head Over CPDOs

"eems a move designed to mollify critics without admitting to bad practices in bread-and-butter products"

CPDOs; Moody's Sacks Structured Finance Head; naked capitalism.

Fri 2008-06-20 00:00 EDT

Walter Bagehot Was Wrong - June 19, 2008 - The New York Sun

Walter Bagehot Was Wrong, by James Grant - June 19, 2008 - The New York Sun; Jim Grant: structuring mortgages for central bank deposit in special liquidity facilities will result in a new cycle of currency debasement; Walter Bagehot versus Thomson Hankey on central banks, moral hazard, fairness, and ready money

2008; June 19; New York Sun; Walter Bagehot; wrong.

Tue 2008-06-17 00:00 EDT

Sudden Debt: No More Salami

global CDO issuance down 94% YOY; death of structured finance leaves Wall Street production lines idle

Salami; Sudden Debt.

Wed 2008-05-28 00:00 EDT

Economist's View: "The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too"

review of Jamie Galbraith's "The Predator State" by L. Randall Wray; "market solutions are designed to enrich a favored oligarchy through a spoils system administered through the states structure"

Conservatives Abandoned; Economist's View; free market; liberalism; Predator state.

Tue 2008-03-18 00:00 EDT

Techniques For Defining, Using And Manipulating Rights Management Data Structures

Edwin J. Hall, Victor H. Shear, Luke S. Tomasello, David M. Van Wie, Robert P. Weber, Kim Worsencroft, Xuejun Xu

US Patent 7062500: 707/102; Intertrust

defines; Manipulating Rights Management Data Structures; technique; use.

Thu 2008-03-13 00:00 EDT

Finding a catalog

generating analytical catalog records from well-structured digital texts, by David Mimno, Alison Jones, Gregory Crane (2005); named-entity extraction

catalog; find.

Wed 2007-09-12 00:00 EDT

Calculated Risk: Fleck on Structured Investment Vehicles

Bill Fleckenstein on SIVs; Fleck observed credit problems early

Calculated Risk; flecks; Structured Investment Vehicle.

Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT

Econbrowser: Borrowing short and lending long

by James Hamilton; new bank-like institutions have evolved outside existing regulatory structures, issuing commercial paper and buying securitized debt

borrowers Short; Econbrowser; lend long.

Thu 2006-10-26 00:00 EDT

Task-structure analysis for knowledge modeling

B. Chandrasekaran, Todd R. Johnson, Jack W. Smith

(1992); background

knowledge modeling; Task-structure analysis.

Fri 2004-05-14 00:00 EDT

Robotics Institute: Learning Statistical Structure for Object Detection

Learning Statistical Structure for Object Detection, by Henry Schneiderman (face detection)

Learning Statistical Structure; object detection; Robot Institute.

Mon 2004-03-15 00:00 EST

FpML.org

-- Financial products Markup Language; XML Standard for Swaps, Derivatives, and Structured Financial Products

FpML; org.