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SEC Forum on Small Business Capital Formation

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ARCHIVED VIDEO WEBCAST Original live broadcast: Thursday, November 20, 2008

Morgan, Goldman May Squeeze Regional Bank Profits

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Regional lenders including Marshall & Ilsley Corp. and Zions Bancorporation face more competition for deposits and may have larger credit losses after Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s conversion to banks.

The Richest Game

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The National Football League is the strongest sport in the world. The reason: No other league has so successfully exploited new stadiums as the NFL during the past decade. Each of the top 10 most valuable teams plays in a modern stadium, or will by 2010. Yes, England's prolific soccer team, Manchester United, is still the most valuable team in the world ($1.8 billion), but there are only four soccer teams (Real Madrid, Arsenal and Liverpool are the others) worth over $1 billion. The NFL now has 19 teams worth that much, compared with five last year and none five years ago.

Bailouts will lead to rough economic ride

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When interest rates are lowered to below what the market rate would normally be, as the Federal Reserve has done numerous times throughout this decade, it becomes much cheaper to borrow money. Longer-term and more capital-intensive projects, projects that would be unprofitable at a high interest rate, suddenly become profitable.