This guest post is written by Matt Streeter, Product Manager at FINCAD. Taking a look at the events influencing market performance from the past several weeks, we see that these are surely exciting times, depending on the seat you’re in and how you define ‘excitement’. Greece’s potential slide into the abyss, the longer term fate of the Euro and stagnation in the US teamed with the Buffett Tax have all

This guest post is written by Gurpreet Banwait who is the director of Insight Solutions Product Management at FINCAD. Twenty or thirty years from now, when people look back on this time period, will we view the US as having been through a depression? Wikipedia defines a depression as a sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economies. It is a more severe downturn than a recession.