The broader-based TOPIX is currently at 896.88, down 1.424 percent. --- On Wed, 9/30/09, Michael King <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Michael King <[email protected]> Subject: Re: 8.3 earthquake off Samoan islands (Tsunami News from Tokyo) (and a modest proposal) To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 6:31 PM A special edition of The Polka? On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Doug Elrod <[email protected]> wrote: This precipitated one of the few Tokyo live reports (Margaret Connelly (sp?)) that I can remember since the "Business News from Tokyo" days. Anyone remember any other? -Doug Elrod ([email protected]) P.S. Hearing about the rating agencies being grilled in Congress, it struck me that the problems with them would largely go away if they were just transformed into "bookies", of a sort. Simply have them be the only ones allowed to issue the (*also* troublesome) "credit default swaps", and if their "ratings" (seen via how they price the CDS's) are correct their profits will be maximized, just the same as a skillful bookmaker! And there would be no problem making such ratings public. Has this been proposed before? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
