If you are reading this right now, please my email address is cn~AT~hushmail~DOT~com. I’m a male child who is currently unemployed. I recently received calls that my mother is dead and being an only male the expenses are killing me. I have already sold most of the items in my home just to pay for her funeral. I’m in the process plan the funeral but my greatest stumble block is that I have no funds. It’s frustrating and lonely, sometimes I feel like joining my mom… My mom is all I got… I need to bury her properly. I seeking help because I do not qualify from government and loan due to I’m unemployed right now. I strongly believed that there has to be someone out there that can help me.… Please the overall cost to complete with the one I have is $750 any small contribution would be greatly appreciated. My mom it hurts enough she is dead so suddenly, then on top that it kills me to know I can not bury her. Please help.
Michael Pettis is a professor at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets. He has also taught, from 2002 to 2004, at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management and, from 1992 to 2001, at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the board of directors of ABC-CA Fund Management Co., a Sino-French joint venture based in Shanghai.
Pettis has worked on Wall Street in trading, capital markets, and corporate finance since 1987, when he joined the Sovereign Debt trading team at Manufacturers Hanover (now JP Morgan). Most recently, from 1996 to 2001, Pettis worked at Bear Stearns, where he was Managing Director-Principal heading the Latin American Capital Markets and the Liability Management groups. He has also worked as a partner in a merchant banking boutique that specialized in securitizing Latin American assets and at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he headed the emerging markets trading team. Besides trading and capital markets, Pettis has been involved in sovereign advisory work, including for the Mexican government on the privatization of its banking system, the Republic of Macedonia on the restructuring of its international bank debt, and the South Korean Ministry of Finance on the restructuring of the country’s commercial bank debt.
Pettis is a member of the Institute of Latin American Studies Advisory Board at Columbia University as well as the Dean’s Advisory Board at the School of Public and International Affairs. He is the author of several books, including The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse (Oxford University Press, 2001). He received an MBA in Finance in 1984 and an MIA in Development Economics in 1981, both from Columbia University.