In his report, Mr. Batson makes clear that Enron's financial techniques frequently violated generally accepted accounting principles.
Now is not the time for Mr. Romney or his supporters in Congress to advocate for experiments with intriguing financial techniques on some grand scale.
It was amplified by newfangled, flighty financial techniques, notably buying assets with borrowed money and watching leverage work its arithmetical magic.
He wants the faculty to focus more on the risks of clever financial techniques; they will have plenty of case studies to choose from.
Companies routinely poured billions of yen into speculative trades — moves called "zaitech," or "financial techniques" — that turned sour when the bubble burst in 1990.
Financial regulation will have to catch up with the most irresponsible practices that led banks down this road, in hopes of averting the next crisis, which is likely to involve different financial techniques and different sorts of assets.
Then, Linda Dow, head of the firm's consulting group in New Jersey and a specialist in financial techniques, stepped up to talk about tools for survival through this "very challenging" time.
But unlike the horribly botched financing of the boom-era American housing market, where all of these financial techniques were used, no one is suggesting this set of underlying assets is safe.* "Commercialising biomedical research through securitisation techniques".
"They've taken great advantage of modern communications and modern financial techniques" to promote themselves, recruit followers and amass money and weapons, said Mark Wallace, a former Bush administration diplomat and lawyer heading the new organisation.
So the donors paid for the villagers to learn basic financial techniques, to enable them to make more profitable use of skills they already possessed, such as soap-making and chicken-breeding.
