Hindi film industry's fortunes are directly connected to that of the world finance markets.
Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union spending in campaigns certainly made it so in 2010.
The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation.
Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.
It's hard to predict the future, but some people think that Bitcoin could do to finance what the Internet did to communications.
Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.
To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.
