This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

Bénassy-Quéré, Kumar and Pisani-Ferry (RGE Monitor): G20, Not G7, September 25, 2009. A striking outcome of the global financial crisis has been the substitution of the G7 for the G20 as the key forum for international coordination. There is something like a paradox in such substitution since the agenda of G20 meetings has so far focused on financial regulation issues, which are of more concern for G7 than for non-G7 G20 countries. Indeed, it has so far been much more specific on financial regulation than on trade, global imbalances or the reform of Bretton Woods institutions, where the views of non-G7 G20 countries are highly needed.

WSJ Blogs - Real Time Economics: Marc Faber takes on Krugman, links Bernanke and Mugabe, September

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BSD Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: BSDM) (www.bsdmedical.com) announced today that the Company has completed integration of a BSD-2000/3D/MR Hyperthermia System with a GE Healthcare (GE) 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center at Duke University Medical Center. GE Healthcare is a division of the General Electric Company. This is the first installation in the United States of the BSD-2000/3D/MR and the first integration of a BSD-2000/3D/MR system with a GE MR system. The integration and installation was a joint effort between BSD Medical, Duke University, and GE Healthcare engineers, physicists, and physicians.

UQM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (NYSE Amex:UQM), a

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Stratos Renewables Corporation, an emerging agro-energy company focused on developing a sugarcane ethanol project in South America, announced this morning that Leonard Brooks has been elected to the company’s Board of Directors.

Leonard Brooks, a senior investment banking professional with more than 20 years of investment banking experience, founded and ran a number of investment banking initiatives at prominent firms including most recently the Private Equity Finance Group at Goldman Sachs, and the Private Equity Placement Group at UBS. He graduated with an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and has been a member of the Fuqua School of Business Isle Maligne Society since 1985. He also holds a BBA from The College of William & Mary.

Stratos’ CEO, Tom Snyder, commented, “This is another very important step for Stratos Renewables in our evolution. Leonard is a very accomplished finance executive and brings to us valuable experience and

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Today, Aeolus Pharmaceuticals announced that it has generated a net loss of $459,000, or $0.01 per basic share, for the three months ended December 31, 2008. This compares to a loss of $641,000, or $0.02 per basic share, for the three months ended December 31, 2007, a decrease of 28%.

John L. McManus, President and CEO, stated, “Results for the quarter continue to demonstrate our success in reducing overhead and successfully partnering with universities and the government to further the development of AEOL 10150. While making wise use of our cash is important, it is also critical that we move forward the development of our lead drug candidate AEOL10150.”

“During the past quarter we initiated a study of AEOL 10150 as a countermeasure against exposure to radiation at Duke University. We expect to have some of the results of that study before the end of the current quarter. Additionally, we expect

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After U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers meet today (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday), most experts expect a half a percentage point cut in the benchmark Federal Funds Rate – which is already 1.0%.

That doesn’t leave members of the central bank’s policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) much room to maneuver. Still, the policymakers may have more ammunition in their arsenal and the statement that accompanies the rate decision at the end of the two-day session could shed some insight on the “creative” actions the Fed could consider in addition to rate cuts (For instance, the central bank could extend the new investment firm discount window, offer additional loan guarantees, or utilize any number of other tools).

And the Fed may well have to use those other tools. As Japan’s “Lost Decade” demonstrated, “zero” interest rates won’t necessarily jump-start an economy – especially when interest

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After U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers meet today (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday), most experts expect a half a percentage point cut in the benchmark Federal Funds Rate – which is already 1.0%. That doesn’t leave members of the central bank’s policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) much room to maneuver. Still, the policymakers may have more ammunition in their arsenal and the statement that accompanies the rate decision at the end of the two-day session could shed some insight on the “creative” actions the Fed could consider in addition to rate cuts (For instance, the central bank could extend the new investment firm discount window, offer additional loan guarantees, or utilize any number of other tools). And the Fed may well have to use those other tools. As Japan’s “Lost Decade” demonstrated, “zero” interest rates won’t necessarily jump-start an ...

Reason for comment LiDCO’s half year results reported today show some early glimpses of what the future might be like. Headline revenues were up only a modest 3% but this masks underlying dynamics which while early are highly encouraging.

Objective's view:

We continue to believe that the HDM market is ripe for the picking and that LiDCO’s product offering puts it in pole position to benefit from the improving dynamics of this market which we value to be worth around £1.2 billion for both surgical and critical care applications.

All in all, the first half of fiscal 2009 has been a very eventful one. Apart from some working capital adjustments which we will need to make to account for higher LiDCOplus inventories (due to more rapid cannibalisation and longer manufacturing lead times), we see no evidence in this report that would push us to

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University Endowment FundsUniversity Endowment Funds ListQuick Link: Hedge Fund Marketing GuideYesterday a hedge fund sent me this list of university endowments from Wikipedia and I thought I would share this with others involved in hedge fund marketing and sales.Institution Endowment (2005)billion USD Endowment (2006)billion USD Endowment (2007)billion USD Amherst College $ 1.155[1] $ 1.337[2] $ 1.662[3] ...

Last week’s crude and gasoline inventories dropped more than expected as the effects of Hurricane Gustav resulted in some production disruptions. Gustav, which struck last month, was the fourth-most-destructive storm to hit the United States, causing $20 billion in damages. And then came Hurricane Ike. Ike made landfall in the Galveston area of the U.S. Gulf Coast on in the pre-dawn hours Saturday (the day I was penning this column) as a Category 2 storm with winds hitting 110 miles per hour.  Ike’s path toward Houston makes it the first storm to hit a major U.S. metropolitan area since Hurricane Katrina eviscerated New Orleans in 2005, Bloomberg News reported. We won’t know how much direct damage those high winds from Hurricane Ike will cause for several days at least. From the initial reports, the results appear to be devastating. But the indirect costs are ...