Fans of the Fab Four are clamoring for copies of remastered versions of two box sets of the legendary band's albums, one in stereo and one in mono, as well as the release of “The Beatles: Rock Band.”
CME Group Inc. has won the backing of five new large asset management firms in a bid to establish itself as a central clearinghouse for the $27-trillion credit default swaps business.
Summer's Almost Over :'( and so it's time to slow down a bit. This month I bring you the best of the best Jazz and Smooth Jazz CD recommendations to help you ease your way into Fall, the inevitable Winter and the need to turn your clock back (hate that!).
Summer's Almost Over :'( and so it's time to slow down a bit. This month TaylorSpearsRecommends brings you the best of the best Jazz and Smooth Jazz CD recommendations to help you ease your way into Fall, the inevitable Winter and the need to turn your clock back.
Much has been said about the death of the album at the hands of the MP3. Certainly, pop music's center is no longer the album but the freestanding song, however many good or great albums may be released now or in the future.
A new crop of consumer-facing music stores is focused on helping fans resell "used" digital music the way they do CDs. But the big conundrum with digital music is that there's no way to prove sellers legally own the songs on their computers.
This lengthy article describes how one municipal entity became victimized by its willingness to believe that it could leverage a profit by borrowing huge sums of money and investing it in contrived and dangerous derivative schemes.
The nine biggest participants in the derivatives market — including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America — created a lobbying organization, the CDS Dealers Consortium, on Nov. 13, a month after five of its members accepted federal bailout money.
Just recently I saw an animated movie, I think it was "Monsters vs. Aliens." Pretty good movie I think. In fact, it helped me make my day. But later I started thinking about how I saw this movie. It was copied.
Because many of the same bondholders presumably own credit default swaps on GM debt with AIG. And the US government has already made clear that it will cover those CDS's at 100 cents on the dollar.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Around $4 billion in payments on credit default swaps protecting General Motors Corp may need to be made if the automaker enters into a prepackaged bankruptcy, though any payments are unlikely to cause widespread losses, Bank of America said on Friday.
Why was someone as compromised as Lawrence Summers made the White House's point man overseeing $2.86 trillion in bailout funds to the financial moguls whom he had enabled in creating this mess and many of whom had benefited him financially? Will no congressional panel ever quiz …
Financial weapons of mass destruction was coined by Warren Buffet to describe the $60 trillion Credit Default Swap market and their effect on our economy.
It is not secret that much of the taxpayer billions was spent on unwinding bunch of CDS contracts that AIG had with Goldman S. and other Wall St players.
An interesting article on the missteps that where made so far in addressing the crisis.
U2's twelfth studio album, No Line On The Horizon, officially drops today. Is it groundbreaking? Have they reinvented themselves yet again?
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street At the heart of it all was Li's formula. When you talk to market participants, they use words like beautiful, simple, and, most commonly, tractable.
How 'credit default swaps'—an insurance against bad loans—turned from a smart bet into a killer.
This month, Taylor Spears Recommends publishes the "Valentine Top 10 Recommended CD's and Downloads" on this blog. Whether you are looking for a gift for your loved one or for music to set the mood, this blog has great recommendations.
Featuring recommendations of great music for Valentines gifts, or setting the mood. Music by Matthew Montfort, Tiffany Giardina, Bobby Valentino, and more; for fans of World Music, Pop, R&B;, Soul, Pop, fans - and more...this list has some great recommendations each month.
Featuring recommendations of great music for Valentines gifts, or setting the mood. Music by Ancient-Future, Tiffany Giardina, Bobby Valentino, and more; for fans of World Music, Pop, R&B;, Soul, Pop, fans - and more...this list has some great recommendations each month.
Taylor Spears Recommends announced their Top 10 Grammy Nomination CD Picks for 2009.
A financial apocalypse descends on the US and the world. Stock Market returns are terrible. Treasury Bills have a negative return. CD rates are falling.
In moves that will help shape the online future of the music business, Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying restrictions on all of the songs in its popular iTunes Store and allow record companies to set a range of prices for them.
Queen and Police recordings nominated to Grammy Hall of Fame. Article explains what the Hall of Fame is and tells that it will be part of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles which opens on 6 December.
As a sign of changing times in the intertainment industry, electronic sales have surpassed CD sales for the first time -- at least at Atlantic, a division of the Warner music biz. No other record label has reported the same phenomenon, but it is probably only a matter of time.