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One of investors' greatest fears today is that the world is on the edge of an economic downturn that may be deeper and longer than anything experienced in modern times.
Spurring this concern is a prolonged liquidity crisis that has affected virtually every corner of the global financial system. Lenders have tightened the spigots of credit to a trickle, while individuals and businesses are loath to spend or to take risks. In this environment, doomsday scenarios continue to proliferate: a wide-ranging and catastrophic "unwind," or deleveraging; a further stock market collapse; or, at best, a global economy that limps along, if not in outright depression, then in a long and bitter recession, perhaps resembling Japan's "lost decade."
To assess these risks, we studied a number of historical banking crises and their impact on economic growth and financial markets. A clear-eyed analysis of these crises lends important perspective on our current situation, providing us with a better-informed view of the risks and potential opportunities in the market today.
Our study leads us to conclude:
Understanding the current crisis requires a long-term global perspective. Severe shocks to a financial system do not occur often; to find comparable events we need to look beyond the post-World War II experience in the United States. By casting a broader net, we can capture and analyze a number of prior episodes with striking similarities to the current environment.
Every prior episode followed the pattern of a multi-year credit expansion culminating in a banking system crisis, followed by a corresponding credit contraction. The magnitude of the credit contractions bore a direct relationship to the depth of stock market and economic losses. While it is important not to draw overly fine conclusions from a limited number of episodes, benchmarking the recent credit expansion to past banking crises provides useful comparison: It suggests that the economy may experience an even more severe downturn than most expect, but that United States and global stock market valuations already may reflect such a scenario.
The size and scope of the U.S. government actions to ensure continued credit supply and help stave off a collapse in credit demand are unprecedented. Their efficacy will be critical in determining whether the outcome of this crisis is better or worse than those of previous crises. Our analysis suggests that tracking the aggregate amount of credit in the system provides the best measure of the success of government intervention.
An Enduring Cycle
To begin our research, we identified nearly 200 systemic banking crises that we believe share important similarities with the current crisis.1 These episodes, which occurred in more than 100 different countries during the past 130 years, involved the simultaneous failure or near-failure of multiple banks, impairing the ability and willingness of credit intermediaries to channel money from savers to borrowers. It is this characteristic — a severe shock to a country's financial system — that differentiates the current crisis from more typical business cycle-related recessions and bear markets.
In narrowing our sample set to only the most relevant systemic banking crises, we applied the following logic: Arguably, developed-market banking crises during the last 20 years provided the closest parallels, but would have left us with too narrow a sample size; so we included certain emerging-market crises during the same period. We determined their relevance by measuring factors such as the country's wealth and the maturity of its banking system.2 Finally, because of the uniquely large and diversified nature of the U.S. economy, we looked back in history to include five major pre-World War II U.S. crises. This screening process resulted in 15 crises. (See "Comparable Crises," this page.)
While we recognize that a sample of 15 banking crises is by no means a large data set and that each situation was unique to its time and place in history, there are commonalities across the events. Indeed, each banking crisis we studied had at its core the hallmarks of a classic credit cycle: A self-reinforcing but unsustainable relationship blossoms between borrowers emboldened to increase their indebtedness and lenders prepared to stretch their balance sheets to meet the escalating demand for credit.
We looked at the run-up in lending before each crisis and the subsequent deleveraging, as measured by the loan-to-deposit ratios of banks in each of the 15 examples. The ratio in each case increased for a varying number of years prior to the crisis, peaked around the crisis, and then decreased for years afterward. Underneath the rise in the amount of loans extended per dollar of deposits lay deteriorating underwriting standards and the willingness of lenders to rely more heavily on riskier sources of funding.
While the "unwind" trigger was different every time (when we could identify one at all), the onset of a crisis not surprisingly tended to mark a peak in lending activity. A crisis event usually coincided with loan impairments and defaults that in turn damaged bank capital and the ability to lend. Simultaneously, changes in sentiment reduced the desire to lend and, in many cases, to borrow.
In virtually all cases, the disinclination of banks to lend created ripple effects that threatened to bring the wheels of commerce to a near standstill. Most of the crises we studied share many similarities with today's situation, including major real estate price declines, equity bear markets and heightened equity volatility. The fact that these traits are shared across the episodes in our sample set helps establish them as reasonable benchmarks against which we can compare our current situation.
A starting point for analyzing the implications of a systemic banking crisis for economic growth and stock market performance is simply to observe the average outcomes of past crises. What we find is that the average peak-to-trough downturns in both the real economy and the financial markets were indeed severe. (See "Benchmarking the Pain," this page.) On average, corporate earnings turned negative, GDP fell 10 percent, and the unemployment rate rose by more than seven percentage points. The worst of these crises, the Great Depression, saw GDP contract by more than 30 percent and unemployment spike by 21 percentage points. That's an outcome more than three times the magnitude of the average crisis in our sample.
Local stock markets in the affected countries during these crises saw average real price declines of 52 percent from peak to trough over a 2.6-year period. On average, they took 9.2 years to regain their peaks. Again, the Great Depression took the dubious honor of being the worst, posting an inflation-adjusted stock decline of 81 percent, with a painful 26.5 years to recover.
What might a simplistic application of these data imply for the current crisis?
If today's crisis turns out to be "average," then we might expect a dismal real economy but a stock market with a peak-to-trough decline equal to what already has occurred.
The typical recovery period of nine or so years suggests that prices could return to their inflation-adjusted peaks by the year 2016. While that may sound like a long time to wait, a recovery by then would imply eight years of real double-digit stock returns.
But can we say this is an average crisis? And is the economic impact likely to be in line with past banking crises?
Consequences of Deleveraging
Historically, the magnitude of a credit expansion before a crisis has been reflected in the ensuing credit contraction. In plain English: the bigger the boom, the bigger the bust. This relationship becomes meaningful when we consider that the magnitude of credit contractions in the aftermath of banking crises has been related to the depth of economic and stock market declines.
In our sample of crises, outstanding bank loans tended to decline in the ensuing contraction by an amount roughly equal to real loan growth in the final three years of expansion. (See "Run-ups Forecast Contractions," this page.) This three-year window makes intuitive sense based on deteriorating lending standards in the run-ups to nearly all the crises we studied. Anecdotal examples include Japanese banks accepting artwork as loan collateral in the late 1980s and U.S. lenders issuing NINJA (No Income, No Job, No Assets) mortgages during the recent cycle.
One challenge in applying this relationship to the current cycle lies in tallying aggregate loans outstanding. During much of the historical record and in many countries still, banks provide the vast majority of outstanding private credit. In the United States, however, non-bank lending plays an important role, and never has that role been more prominent than in the recent cycle with the emergence of the so-called shadow banking system. This system includes a host of largely unregulated entities, including private finance companies and special purpose vehicles set up by banks to move loans off their balance sheets.
To capture loans enabled by this shadow system as well as by more traditional forms of nonbank lending such as the corporate bond market, we added all borrowing by households and non-financial businesses to derive our estimate of total U.S. loans outstanding. (See "How Big Was the U.S. Run-up, Really?" p. 35.)3
Under this definition of loans outstanding, the inflation-adjusted credit growth in the United States during the three years leading up to the first quarter 2008 peak totaled 20 percent.
If the U.S. credit market undergoes a contraction that follows the pattern of prior crises — and as of the third quarter of 2008 this contraction had barely begun — we would expect $5 trillion (20 percent) of the $25 trillion peak loans outstanding to vanish through roll-offs, write-downs, and defaults in the coming years, even as new loans are made.
What would a contraction of this magnitude imply for the U.S. stock market? With the exception of Japan in the 1990s (see "Has the U.S. Equity Market Hit Bottom?" this page), the magnitude of the stock market declines in our sample bore a reasonable relationship to the magnitude of the ultimate declines in loans outstanding. This relationship reflects the higher risk premiums and slower profit growth generally associated with contracting credit.
If loans in the United States in fact contract 20 percent and the historical relationship to equity prices holds, we would expect a nearly 50 percent real decline in equity prices. That is almost exactly the loss experienced by the S&P 500 Index from its October 2007 peak through its recent lows.
Of course, credit contractions ultimately impact equity markets because of their effects on the real economy. What would a 20 percent decline in outstanding credit imply for U.S. GDP? Following other systemic banking crises, a 20 percent contraction in the domestic credit market would be consistent with full-year U.S. GDP shrinking by 7 percent — an almost unimaginable figure. (See "Forecasting U.S. Economy Shrinkage," this page.) This would represent an outcome unprecedented in the post-World War II era and far exceeds economists' consensus forecast. Indeed, we recognize there are legitimate reasons why this relationship may not hold as strongly in today's economy.
Of the crises we examined, those occurring before World War II experienced the greatest economic contraction, on average. Modern developed economies have tended to be less severely affected by crisis-induced credit crunches, in part reflecting the powerful role now played by government fiscal and monetary authorities in responding to financial and economic emergencies. (See "Failure and Success," p. 39.) Such involvement is likely to be an important factor in how this crisis plays out.
Government Intervention
Will the current crisis follow the patterns of past systemic banking crises? If the United States can avoid a 20 percent deleveraging cycle, then perhaps the equity market has overshot and GDP need not fall by 7 percent.
The main reason for optimism, in our opinion, is the unprecedented government response to date.
Even before the current crisis, government entities played a key role in the funding channels that linked suppliers of credit to borrowers. Indeed, government programs implicitly or explicitly supported about 50 percent of financial intermediaries' deposit and credit market liabilities, thanks to FDIC deposit insurance, loans made to financial institutions by the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBs), and government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In the wake of the crisis, the government has dramatically expanded existing programs to ensure the stability of critical sources of credit. Fannie and Freddie have been placed into conservatorship, effectively nationalizing their operations, and the FDIC has expanded its deposit insurance guarantee by about $1 trillion.
Furthermore, between the U.S. Treasury, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve, an alphabet soup of entirely new programs has been introduced, extending the government's buttressing of the lending markets well beyond the traditional avenues of deposit insurance and agency backing. (See "Here Comes the Fed," p. 38.) The new programs loosely target previously unsupported segments of the funding liabilities of the U.S. financial system. We estimate that announced efforts to shore up the commercial paper and asset-backed securities markets, as well as financial institutions' bond market liabilities (in which partial relief has come from Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)-funded equity recapitalization), could provide a minimum of $3 trillion in additional credit market support, on top of the $1 trillion in expanded FDIC insurance.
In other words, through new, expanded and existing programs, the government has added about $4 trillion in lending market support, effectively backstopping more than 70 percent of the deposit and debt liabilities of the financial system's primary credit intermediaries. And while most of this support comes in the form of broad guarantees, the impact of various direct interventions already can be seen on the Fed's balance sheet, which has ballooned from a little more than $800 billion to more than $2 trillion and is likely to hit $3 trillion by spring.
What's more, should the situation continue to worsen, the government authorities are clearly prepared, as Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke recently declared, "to do what we need to do to keep the U.S. credit system working and to try and create a recovery in the financial system."4
Are such efforts likely to meet their goal of breaking the destructive cycle of forced deleveraging characteristic of past crises?
In our view, the depth and breadth of government intervention mark a promising break from many previous episodes, when the response was often either too tepid or too narrowly targeted, or both.
But we recognize it's too early to sound the "all clear." Indeed, some retrenchment on the part of lenders will be both necessary and healthy. And in fact, the programs enacted to date do not appear geared to prevent deleveraging altogether. Rather, they aim, again in Bernanke's words, to slow it by "allowing a more orderly process of asset sales and the necessary deleveraging by financial institutions."5
Regardless of the success of government efforts to stabilize the supply of credit, the ability and willingness to lend does not necessarily lead to a desire to borrow. Perhaps not surprisingly, we recently have witnessed aggregate residential mortgage debt — and with it total household debt — decline for the first time in the post-World War II era.6 Should the recession deepen, it's possible that uncertainty and pessimism about the future could become so acute that firms and households simply refuse to borrow even when credit is available. This raises the specter of the so-called paradox of thrift, when too much saving (that is to say, too little spending) actually threatens economic growth. Additional fiscal stimulus from Washington is meant to help address this risk by directly stimulating demand and by indirectly buoying consumer confidence.
In the near term, it appears the biggest risk to mitigating the downside of the current deleveraging cycle is that fiscal stimulus may not stave off a collapse in credit demand. Over the longer term, the key risk may come from the law of unintended consequences: While the size and character of the current crisis are not unprecedented, the magnitude and diversity of the government's response are. Keeping a watchful eye on the potential side effects stemming from these monetary and fiscal support programs will help us gauge the success of the government's efforts.
Looking Ahead
The current financial crisis is different from other post-World War II U.S. recessions and bear markets. At its heart is an enormous disruption to the financial system rather than a typical business cycle or exogenous shock. But this situation is not that different in character or magnitude from past systemic banking crises, from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives.
While no one can predict what lies ahead, the similarities of recent events to past credit crises suggest that we can look to credit metrics to understand and monitor the current situation. Applying these to the patterns of similar past crises points to a real economy that faces a deep recession but a stock market whose prices may already anticipate such an outcome.
Furthermore, if today's government remedies prove more effective than those of the past, we may navigate this storm with a less painful deleveraging than might otherwise be expected.
— Bernstein Global Wealth Management, a unit of AllianceBernstein L.P., does not offer tax, legal or accounting advice. In considering this material, you should discuss your individual circumstances with professionals in those areas before making any decisions.
- Our original list came from events categorized as systemic banking crises in these studies: Luc Laeven and Fabian Valencia, "Systemic Banking Crises: A New Database," International Monetary Fund (IMF), November 2008; and Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, "This Time Is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Banking Crises," National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), April 2008.
- Regarding the level of wealth, we limited the sample set to those countries with a real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita that was greater than 20 percent of that of the United States. For the maturity of the banking system, we based our analysis on the credit market regulation score of the Economic Freedom of the World Index, which is co-published by the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., the Fraser Institute in Vancouver and more than 70 think tanks around the world. That component of the index measures bank deposits held in privately held banks, foreign bank competition, the percentage of domestic credit consumed by the private sector, and the level of intervention in credit markets. We included only those past crises in which the country involved had a score on the index that was greater than 70 percent of the U.S. score as of the late 1980s.
- Categories of household and business debt outstanding include residential and commercial mortgages (including mortgage debt owed by the financial sector); consumer credit; nonfinancial corporate bonds and commercial paper; bank loans to nonfinancial and financial sectors (excluding loans from the Federal Reserve to the financial institutions); and other loans and advances to the non-financial sector (excluding U.S. government loans to state and local governments and government-sponsored enterprises).
- In response to questioning after Congressional testimony, Nov. 18, 2008.
- U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's prepared remarks at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, Dec. 1, 2008.
- Though by less than 1 percent through the third quarter of 2008, per the seasonally adjusted Fed Flow of Funds on an annualized basis.
Jon Ruff, far left, is a director and Vincent L. Childers is a research analyst in the Wealth Management Group at Bernstein Global Wealth Management in New York
Comparable Crises
The current situation is not without precedent
We looked beyond U.S. bear markets and recessions to analyze systemic financial crises around the globe and over time, narrowing our sample set to 15 episodes with relatively common characteristics.
Group I: Developed Countries, Post-WWII
|Relative Wealth*
|Banking System Sophistication**
|United States — late 1980s
|Japan — 1990s
|Norway — late 1980s
|Sweden — early 1990s
|Finland — late 1980s
Group II: Open Developing Countries, 1990+
|Relative Wealth*
|Banking System Sophistication**
|South Korea — late 1990s
|Argentina — early 2000s
|Thailand — late 1990s
|Turkey — early 2000s
|Colombia — late 1990s
Group III: United States, 1870-WWII
|Relative Wealth*
|United States — 1930s
|United States — mid-1910s
|United States — early 1900s
|United States — 1890s
|United States — 1870s
*Relative Wealth=Real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of country divided by the greater of U.S. or U.K. real GDP per capita
**Banking System Sophistication=For the maturity of the banking system, we based our analysis on the credit market regulation score of the Economic Freedom of the World Index, published by the Fraser Institute. That component of the index measures bank deposits held in privately held banks, foreign bank competition, the percentage of domestic credit consumed by the private sector and the level of intervention in credit markets. We included only those past crises in which the country involved had a score on the index that was greater than 70 percent of the U.S. score as of the late 1980s
— AllianceBernstein, 2009
Benchmarking the Pain
The economic and market impact of the crises can be measured
Drops in both economic activity and the stock market were, on average, severe, but the Great Depression was an outlier in terms of GDP reduction.
Averages of past Crises
|What Happens to Real Economy
|What Happens to Real Equity Prices
|Corporate Earnings (EPS)
|Unemployment (Percentage Points)
|Peak to Trough Drop
|Peak to Trough (Years)
|Years to Regain Peak
|Up 5.6
|Up 4.5
|Up 11.4
|Great Depression**
|Up 21.0
|Average of All
|Up 7.2
|*Real, per capita, annualized
**Also included in Pre-WWII data
|— Global Financial Data, IMF, Morgan
Stanley Capital International, NBER, OECD &
AllianceBernstein, 2009
Failure and Success
Three very different experiences provide insight into the role government can play in resolving — or prolonging — a systemic financial crisis.
The United States in the 1930s
The Great Depression differed from other crises in many ways, but perhaps the most insidious was the 25 percent decline in the consumer price level seen from 1929 to 1933 in the United States.1 Such a deflation distorts many economic relationships, not least between lenders and borrowers as the real value of debt rises. One can see the heightened pain for a highly levered economy from extreme deflation in the experience of the United States in the 1930s, which fell well outside the normal relationship between real loan and real gross domestic product (GDP) contraction. (See "Forecasting U.S. Economy Shrinkage," p. 36.)
The most significant reason for the magnitude of this price decline was continued adherence to the gold standard. The more quickly countries left the gold standard in the 1930s, the more quickly their economies "reflated." Under the gold standard, governments were virtually powerless to influence the money supply and therefore to undertake any action that would reflate their ailing economies. Today, governments strongly influence the money supply, so we view a repeat of this aspect of the Great Depression as a virtual impossibility.
Japan in the 1990s
The Japanese government's failure to address its banking problems for most of the 1990s impaired its ability to stimulate the economy and resulted in the maintenance of an abnormally high level of loans outstanding. Rather than write down dubious loans, Japanese banks restructured them and so kept credit flowing to weak and otherwise insolvent "zombie" firms. The survival of these zombie firms pressured the profits of healthy firms and hence weighed heavily on equity prices. The repercussions of such distorted credit flows meant that Japan in the 1990s fell outside the normal relationship between real loan and real equity price contraction. Structural disincentives to write down bad loans do not exist in the United States, and as such we would expect a tighter relationship between equity declines and eventual loan declines than that experienced by Japan. (See "Has the U.S. Equity Market Hit Botton?" p. 35.)
Sweden in the Early 1990s
The Swedish experience presents a more positive outcome than either the United States in the 1930s or Japan in the 1990s.
Financial reforms in the 1980s led to a credit boom and, with it, overheated consumer spending and real estate prices. A tighter monetary and fiscal environment combined with a currency crisis to reverse the boom by the early 1990s.
The resulting carnage in the banking system ended only after the government had nationalized 22 percent of all banking-system assets.2 The government then transferred the bad assets of the failed banks to two specially created companies for disposal. These companies operated very effectively and completed their task ahead of schedule. The benefit of this approach was that GDP and equity declines were less than would be expected given the magnitude of loan contraction. (See "Forecasting U.S. Economy Shrinkage," p. 36 and "Has the U.S. Equity Market Hit Botton?" p. 35.)
Furthermore, equity prices returned to their prior peak much faster — 2.2 years — than in most other crises.
- In the United States, the Long Depression of the 1870s following the Panic of 1873 also exhibited a 25 percent price decline, but because we do not have reliable gross domestic product (GDP) data, it is not in our loan-GDP analysis.
- Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, "On the Resolution of Financial Crises: The Swedish Experience," O. Emre Ergungor, June 2007.
War of the Rose — Gregory Crewdson's Digital C-Print "Untitled," from his 2001 series "Twilight," belongs to Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum. The university's trustees approved a plan to close the museum and sell its entire collection. See "Driven To Defy Donor Intent?" p. 58 for story. Photograph, courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augstine, a New York-based art gallery.


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The Market has room for 100 vendors and plenty of convenient parking. It's time to get those fresh vegetables, fruits, baked goods, meats and even hand made crafts.
CEDAR SPRINGS, Mich.-- A group of northern Kent County actors are presenting a play this weekend that will have audiences in stitches.
A cast of 13 performs "Seek Immediate Medical Attention'' at Kent Theatre in Cedar Springs Thursday, Aug. 7 through Saturday, Aug. 9.
"Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease,'' director Dave Schmuker said. "The play highlights the comical interactions in a doctor's office and deals with everything from hypochondriacs to one-sided romance.''
Schmuker, who penned the original script, is making his directorial debut. He's been active in community theater for several years, often appearing with the Rogue River Community Theatre Company.
GRAND RAPIDS – Starting this week, people in Kent County will be receiving letters and phone calls asking families to take part in the 2014 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).
This health survey is the largest-conducted telephone survey in the world. The survey will help the KCHD and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to track critical health issues, as well as creating and evaluating public health programs in Kent County. Issues and Answers, a phone marketing research firm, will be conducting the survey on behalf of the Kent County Health Department (KCHD).
Michigan State Police, local law enforcement and Michigan's Field Neurosciences Institute have teamed up with McDonald's of Michigan to once again launch "Caught Being Safe," a statewide bicycle/scooter helmet safety program. Kids wearing helmets and "caught being safe" by participating law enforcement officials will treated to a free ice cream cone or Apple Dippers at McDonald's.
According to the Field Neurosciences Institute (of Michigan): "Caught Being Safe! has shown a significant increase in both helmet utilization and public awareness regarding the critical importance of wearing a bicycle helmet. This program has impacted not only children but adults as well."
BELMONT, Mich.—It's a condition that affects 10 to 15 percent of new mothers: postpartum depression.
Survivors, family, friends and supporters will put on their hiking boots this Saturday, June 21 to raise awareness about this condition. This is the second year for the Climb Out of the Darkness event. At 9 a.m., participants will climb Cannonsburg Ski Area to symbolize their collective rise out of the darkness and rejection of the stigma of maternal mental illness. The event is open to everyone and registration is free.
The climb is one of more than 100 such events taking place worldwide during Summer Solstice, in conjunction with Postpartum Progress.
KENT COUNTY, Mich.—As Memorial Day approaches, Kent County Commissioners are getting ready to hear a proposal to create a millage to support county veterans.
The proposed Dedicated Veterans Millage would be for .050 mill, generating slightly more than $1 million for veteran outreach and emergency services. The measure would also more than double available federal claims assistance hours.
On May 8, the Kent County Board of Commissioners Millage Subcommittee unanimously supported forwarding the millage request onto the Finance and Physical Resources Committee for consideration. The proposal will be discussed at the Kent County Commission's finance meeting Tuesday, May 20 at 8:30 a.m. Supporters hope to get the millage on the November ballot.
ROCKFORD, Mich.— The face of a Special Olympics Michigan athlete from Rockford is now gracing grocery store shelves.
SpartanNash has selected David Paquette to be featured on boxes of Spartan brand honey and oat crunch with almonds cereal this month. Paquette was named the 2013 SpartanNash Healthy Athlete of the Year last may during the opening ceremonies of the Special Olympics State Summer Games. He has been involved with Special Olympics Michigan for 15 years. He has lost 55 pounds because of his dedication to living healthy, sparked by is participation in SOMI.
Paquette will visit the Cascade D&W Fresh Market to sign autographs this Friday, May 16 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. He will also appear at the Northland Drive Family Fare on Saturday, May 17 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Led by positive reception for newly-public social media firms -- and Zynga's impending $10 billion IPO -- early-stage investors are scrambling to pour funding into the social gaming space.
Their big bet: Social gaming start-ups will be the next big thing to hit the public markets.
Offering fresh alternatives to established gaming firms like Activision Blizzard (ATVI) and Electronic Arts (ERTS), Zynga and companies like PopCap Games could light up the gaming sector if they go public.
It's no secret that the traditional video game sector as a whole has slowed, with sales of hardware, software and accessories dropping 6% last year to $18.6 billion, according to industry tracker NPD Group.Just one example is Activision, which despite claiming title to the best-selling video game of all time -- Call of Duty: Black Ops, sales of which topped $1 billion six weeks after its debut -- posted sluggish growth over the past year. Its stock price has also remained largely flat since the beginning of the year, as investors question the company's ability to drive growth beyond its core titles. Video game watchers are now turning their attention to the global social gaming market, which is forecast to reach almost $4 billion in 2015, up from $1.5 billion last year, according to market research firm Business Insights. Companies receiving investment and pre-IPO buzz are plentiful. Kabam, a maker of Facebook games like Dragons of Atlantis, raised $85 million last month in a financing round led by Google (GOOG) Ventures. CrowdStar, which has developed hits like Happy Aquarium and Happy Island, took in $23 million in its first funding round in May from Intel Capital (INTC) and Time Warner Investments (TWX). And Wooga, known as the Zynga of Europe, scored $24 million, which was led by Highland Capital Partners. Besides tapping into a whole new generation of gamers -- Zynga's popular FarmVille and CityVille Facebook titles are played mostly by women ages 25 to 44, for example -- the social gaming space is attractive to investors because it's not as capital intensive as the traditional gaming industry, said Maha Ibrahim, a partner at Canaan Partners who was an early investor in Kabam. "You're spending $1 million to develop a game rather than $50 million," she said. Social gaming start-ups also have a less risky business model. If a title initially flops, these companies can pull the plug quickly, a process that is much more difficult for large publishers who spend millions of dollars to develop a game franchise's deep story lines, high-resolution graphics, huge marketing push and global retail rollout.
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SMU Men's Swimming & Diving Team Set For 2013-14 Season
Mustangs Seek To Win First American Athletic Conference Title
Mustangs Edge Crosstown Rival TCU, 156-144, In Dual Meet
SMU wins 10 events on the night
2014-15 (Jr.): Finished fourth in the three-meter in a dual meet vs. TCU.
2013-14 (So.): Finished fourth in the three-meter dive in dual meet at TCU... Competed at various meets throughout the season.
2012-13 (Fr.): Conference USA Championship: Finished fourth in the platform dive and sixth in the three-meter dive... Finished third in the three-meter dive in a dual meet versus TCU... Placed sixth in the one-meter dive in a dual meet versus LSU.
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three-meter dive - 316.88
platform dive - 236.45
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I had so much fun making the glasses for my Pig that I had to make a pair for my giraffe then everyone got a pair, haha And of course I had to make it into a video so you can make some for your amigurumi. But this method will also work
for your dolls or stuffed animals.
What I used:
18 gauge florist stem wire (18 inches long)
round things to bend the wire like thread spools or small jars
pliers with wire cutters
And if you want to wrap your glasses as I did then:
yarn or string
fabric glue
I can make this into a regular photo tutorial and step by step guide if requested but for now the only tutorial I have is a video right here.
I first made wire glasses for an amigurumi Bunny by Little Yarn Friends that I made my mother as a gift a couple years ago. It's a great pattern! You can see the bunny and it's glasses right here.
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Researchers from security firm FireEye claim that attackers are actively using a remote code execution exploit that works against the latest versions of Adobe Reader 9, 10 and 11.
Foxit released version 5.4.5 of its Foxit Reader PDF viewer plug-in on Thursday in order to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to compromise computers running previous versions of the software.
Adobe released security patches for its ColdFusion application server on Tuesday, addressing four critical vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited by attackers since the beginning of January.
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Adobe has shut down Connectusers.com, a community forum site for users of its Adobe Connect Web conferencing platform, because the site's user database was compromised.
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Swaders Sports Park fuels friendly competition between friends and family members with an endless series of sports and gaming opportunities. Guests jump into one of four different go-karts and zip around two tracks or guide golf balls past challenging obstacles and serene water features?such as waterfalls, streams, and nymphs holding water guns?on two 18-hole mini-golf courses. Golfers can also head to the driving range or smack a different kind of ball in the batting cages.
Inside the facility, a whirring collection of lights and sirens ricochet off the walls from more than 70 arcade games. A multilevel laser-tag arena conceals players behind towering glow-in-the-dark obstacles, and the Route 66 bowling alley allows guests to bowl on highway-themed lanes without the risk of potholes that comes from playing on regular highways.
Prince George Golf Club's 18-hole course unfurls across 6,640 yards of kempt, relatively flat fairways hemmed by fragrant pine trees. The picturesque par 72 poses a moderate challenge to golfers, and the bulk of its difficulty comes in the form of small greens, 13 of which are fortified by at least two sand bunkers and one Frenchman sunbathing in the nude. The back nine presents a slightly harder layout that includes two par 3s where tee shots must clear intervening water hazards on the way to their flagged destinations. A driving range and putting green foster preround practice sessions, and PGA pros roam the club's verdant grounds imparting swing-honing advice in lessons and searching tirelessly for their father's long-lost mashie niblick.
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- Release Date: Dec 20, 2012
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Coop tasks under friends
Does anyone else have coop tasks to make more stars, algae and sand dollars on their friends list.
Answer from: lisamancuso
I'm not sure how it works. I participated in a coop task with you and I have no idea if we completed it or got credit for it. The only notice I got was that it had ended. I wish the game had explained it more. Also, this dailt homework seems extreme at higher levels.
Answer from: ChristopherReef
I got the game update about a week ago and have participated/initiated a few coop tasks. There's a few things I don't like about the coop tasks, but it's at least something to help break up the monotony of just collecting XP points to get to the next level. I agree with lisamancuso- the Daily Homework are often ridiculous. I don't think I've been able to collect once on it. If anyone wants to add me to their friends to participate in the friend coop, my user name is ChristopherReef44.
Answer from: Brit
I can see the screen with a list of coop tasks, but I don't seem to have the ability to join thru it or initiate a coop task, maybe bc i'm not linked in thru Facebook, but I'd be interested! Add me if you'd like.ParadiseReef715. Maybe if someone invites me i can join. Thanks!
Answer from: Bribillstein
I'm a little confused with the coop quest as well. Wish they would have explained it better. Add me if interested: Bribillstein
Answer from: noblesuji
I usef to start coop task but no one ever played with me. i just finish of the task and wait for others to finish but everyone will leave. :(
add me : reef name : noblesuji
Answer from: delilah
Having the same issue with the coops being confusing, not being able to tell if we all completed the task or not. If anyone is interested they can add me, i would like to participate in more. bianca_delilah is my reef name. Level 22. Thanks!
Answer from: christina
I would also like to join a coop. add me christina91988
Answer from: DebbieAdams1106
I would like to join in coop's debbieadams1106
Answer from: Reef1455450
Add reef1455450 for quests!
Answer from: FluteLlama
I accidentally joined a coop that I didn't even have that plant in my reef, so I couldn't do the work. Do they take stuff away from you if you don't complete the task?
Answer from: titansreef1
Hi, I am on level 29. If anybody wants to add me to Co-op quests, I am up for the challenge. Name: titansreef1
Answer from: oopapadoo
Same here. Please include me in your cooperative quests (coop sounds too silly ;) Name is OOPAPADOO.
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Do you suppose the 29 crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald would have survived if it actually had life boats?
not in that storm, she went down too fast
Well he needed a song and hadn't had a hit song for a long while.. so he figured out a way to take all the life boats off and got them all drunk so they didn't even think about life boats.. Once the boat sank, then he could write his song.. I thought it was a brilliant idea.. ;-0
Went to White Fish Point last Sept do not think there would have been time for a life boat and the song made it very well know and forever .
No there was too much wind to launch a boat much less survive in them. That storm was a real nasty blow; she was loaded too heavy to make shelter and really there was or is nothing that could have saved those men.
Not sure, but some scuba gear with dry suites would have been outstanding!!!!
I like the song and I am not sure, I think the Edmund Fitzgerald went down rather quickly in high seas.
I know where it went down but the water was rough that night
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Is there a way that I can get the MiE restore image on a USB flash drive without downloading it? Could I use the "HP MIE Restore Image Creator" to pull the image off my Mini 1000MiE? Is there any other way to get it?
I've been trying for 2 weeks to download a restore image for my HP Mini 1000 with the Mobile Internet Experience (Ubuntu Linux) without success. I've got a DSL line at home, A Vista machine, a XP machine, and a Ubuntu Linux machine. They are networked through a netgear router. I have downloaded and installed the proper software for each platform.
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The Linux machine does a little better. It will download and write the restore.img file to disk but then stops after 100% is displayed on the download progress bar. I left the "HP MIE Restore Image Creator" program running for 2 hours but nothing further occured in the terminal. The restore image was not written to the flash drive. Was there some additional command that I should have entered in the terminal?
I installed the "HP MIE Restore Image Creator" on a XP machine at work. This has a much faster internet connection. The program will download about 80% of the restore.img file to disk and then fails with an "operation timed out". The flash drive is never written to. This is consistent over the course of the last 2 weeks, I try it serveral times at different times each day.
I contacted HP Support but they sadly, seemed unable to do anything. I've seen others in the forum say that they have downloaded this Linux restore image. I was able to download the Ubuntu Remix image which is about the same size. I really don't think that it is a problem with my equipment. It is like the HP server is overwhelmed. I really would be much more confident using the HP Mini with a MiE restore image on my thumb drive.
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Camille Landry is a writer, activist, and social justice advocate who lives in Oklahoma City. This post is part of our "Neglected Oklahoma" series, which tells the stories of Oklahomans in situations where the basic necessities of life are hard to come by. These are real people and their stories are true (names have been changed to protect privacy).
It's Saturday morning at a free clinic in an Oklahoma City church staffed by student volunteers. Another group of volunteers is serving breakfast. There are over 100 people waiting for medical care. Many of those waiting have chronic diseases – diabetes, hypertension, asthma and/or heart disease. The patients are mostly between 18 and 65 – too old for Medicaid, too young for Medicare – but a few children wait to be seen, too. Most of the adults are employed. None of them have health insurance.
George Carter sits at the table reading a textbook as he waits his turn. He is clean-cut and polite. George was 22 when he left a job at a big box store to attend college full time. "I was healthy. I was strong," he says. "I planned to finish my computer science degree and join the Navy."
George had been having back pain but didn't think it was serious - until he woke up in excruciating pain. He had two ruptured disks. The injury is not covered by worker's compensation since he didn't file a claim before he left his job.
His mother's insurance covered back surgery because George was a full-time student, but when his 23rd birthday came, he was automatically dropped from the policy. When the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") kicked in, George was 26 - too old to be covered by a parent's plan.
He had to move in with his mother. George lives with searing pain, numbness and weakness that make it difficult to walk, sit or stand. He studies computer science via online courses and works from home as a telephone solicitor.
George is at the free clinic today hoping for a prescription for muscle relaxers and a referral to a neurologist that he can afford. He won't take narcotics: "I can't risk addiction for temporary pain relief. I make do with Tylenol and Advil and muscle relaxers, a heating pad, and an ice pack." He hasn't seen a doctor in over a year.
What about Obamacare? Because he lives in Oklahoma, health insurance isn't an option for George. The Affordable Care Act works by giving tax credits to working people that pays most of their insurance premiums. Since Oklahoma lawmakers have opted not to accept federal funds for extending Medicaid eligibility, some 150,000 Oklahomans with incomes below the poverty level have been left without assistance for purchasing health insurance. George is one of them.
It does not have to be this way. For example, Kentucky has a gross domestic product similar to Oklahoma's. Its per-capita income is slightly lower than Oklahoma's, and it has a similar number of uninsured residents. Unlike Oklahoma's Governor Mary Fallin, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear signed on to the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion program. If George lived in Kentucky, he would be able to access the medical care he needs.
A nurse calls his name and George steps behind a curtain to be examined. He emerges with ibuprofen and a prescription for muscle relaxers, plus a referral to a clinic staffed by residents from the OU School of Medicine. He needs $125 to be seen at the clinic. This has to be paid before he can see a doctor. He will have to work out a payment plan.
"All I need is a little help and I can get a job, pay taxes, be a contributor instead of a recipient. Our taxes pay for people in other states to get health care but there's no help for me here."
George pushes aside the pancakes and slowly rises to his feet. "I refuse to stop trying. I got knocked down, but I will get up again."
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Today, Amazon officially announced its Kindle ebook reader. Contrary to what we previously reported, the Kindle is notWi-Fi compatible. Instead, it's on its own EV-DO network, called Whispernet, which is affiliated with Sprint. Unlike any other EV-DO device we've ever heard of, the Kindle has no monthly fee. That doesn't make the Kindle a replacement tablet computer or Blackberry, however. The EVDO network is to be used pretty much exclusively for downloading books, newspaper and magazine content, and RSS feeds. It has a browser, but only a very basic one.
The Kindle's major competition right now is Sony's Digital eBook Reader. That device doesn't connect to the Internet at all, but converts Word documents into readable files for free (the Kindle will charge $.10 per document emailed), and makes it easy for you to read any pdf file. The Kindle is geared much more towards customers who want to buy books from Kindle's Amazon store, which has 90,000 books already, all under $10. Unlike with iTunes, any book that you download from Amazon onto the device is stored permanently on Amazon, in case your Kindle ever crashes.
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Email to Jake: March 9, 2003
I sent this email to a group of friends on March 9, 2003:
Anyone been reading about the celebrity commercial wars? Martin Sheen & Co.? Liberal media articles mocking liberals. "Those know-nothing celebrities know nothing" is the gist. I've yet to hear much about the conservative response, led by former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson, who, in his commerical (which I haven't seen), says the following in support of a possible war with Iraq:
When people ask, "What has Saddam done to us?" I ask, "What had the 9-11 hijackers done to us before 9-11?"
So true! We're all guilty until proven invaded.
Jake responded. Same day:
Amen Erik.
The conservatives, whose recent ascendance was led by a B-movie actor turned president, have no business complaining about "know nothing celebrities." Same for the liberal media complaining about fellow liberals. The reason the actors are making such noise about the war has a lot to do with the shameful absence of noise coming from the democrats in Congress. My senator Hillary Clinton, for her part, went out of her way last week to reaffirm her support of Bush's war plans.
And the fact that the media themselves accept the myth of the liberal media only tilts their coverage further to the right. According to polls, a majority of Americans believe Saddam was a 9/11 co-conspirator. No evidence has been produced, but who needs evidence when a steady barrage of slanted coverage will do?
Apologies that we were all so, so right, and the others were all so, so wrong.
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