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• FDIC Says 552 Troubled Banks At End of Third Quarter

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 542
  The troubled bank tally keeps getting worse. MarketWatch’s Ronald D. Orol wrote today: The number of distressed banks in the U.S. rose to the highest level in sixteen years in the third quarter, and the insurance fund used to protect bank depositors swung to a negative balance, according to a report released by ...
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• U.S. Income Inequality Is Frightening–And Much Worse Than We Thought

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  The Business Insider, September 30, 2009 U.S. Income Inequality Is Frightening–And Much Worse Than We Thought Posted using ShareThis The newest economic inequality numbers, which ran counter to the expectations of almost  all experts , are frightening. The Associated Press released an article titled,  US ...
  5 days ago

• Economic reforms will continue in India, says Manmohan Singh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Smita PrakashWashington, Nov. 23 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Monday assured that economic reforms being carried out by India will continue.Addressing business leaders of India and the United States at a luncheon here, Dr. Singh said: “Whenever I meet businessmen to talk of our plans for the ...
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• Why The High Price Of Gold?

  
  puritanpub.com — Authority: 152
  Are you aware of the price of gold lately? It broke the $1,000 barrier in the last few weeks and by all indications will continue to rise at a steady rate. Because of this news people have started to invest more heavily in gold coins and buy gold bullion to get in on the a commodity that is more stable than ...
  1 week ago

• Rating agencies and Indian debt

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 414
  India has always received a raw deal from rating agencies. This carries a cost to the country. Indias present sovereign rating of BBB implies that Indian companies will rate lower and hence pay highs spreads over the risk free rates. Taking into account outstanding ECBs and NRI deposits and assuming that they cost 2 ...
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• Protecting Your Investments In Times of Economic Crisis

  
  Rich Credit Debt Loan — Authority: 536
  The United States economy is currently experiencing a serious financial shake up. No one really understands just how deep or how far reaching the damage is going to be, but what we do know is that there is going to be damage, and that we are going to be at the mercy of the markets and the world economy while we try to ...
  1 week ago

• How the AIG bailout scuttles chances for a second stimulus

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Paul Krugman is right to be worried about the unintended consequences of the AIG bailout: [Inane quote from Paul Krugman. see artile]I do fear that the Obama administration has done a bad job of separating the financial-sector bailouts, on the one hand, from the stimulus bill, on the other. And if the general public ...
  1 week ago

• MarketWatch Columnist Predicts 2012 Financial Crash

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 542
  If you think I’m nasty when it comes to ranting about Wall Street, meet Paul Farrell. Farrell is a columnist for MarketWatch (and who I introduced to readers way back on June 13, 2007), and his latest piece should hopefully hammer home the gravity of the situation I’ve been warning about for the last ...
  1 week ago

• Wall Street Looks Forward To The Holidays

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 542
  Big profits? Big bonuses? What’s not to like about the coming holiday season if you’re on Wall Street? The New York Times’ Zachery Kouwe wrote today: Ten months ago, President Obama said a time would come for Wall Street to make profits and pay bonuses, but “now’s not that time.” But it appears that ...
  1 week ago

• Washington Lawmakers Demand Transparency From Fed

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 542
  The assault on the Federal Reserve continues. From the Associated Press’ Daniel Wagner today: A group of House Democrats are stepping up demands for greater transparency from the Federal Reserve after reports that the Fed mishandled the bailout of insurance giant American International Group Inc. The group, ...
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• The problems of big banks

  
  Ajay Shah's blog — Authority: 417
  I wrote an article in Financial Express titled The problem of big banks . On this subject, also see: In the world of banks, bigger can be better , Charles Calomiris in the Wall Street Journal . A three-way split is the most logical , by John Gapper in the Financial Times . ...
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• If Stocks Tank, Shouldn’t Gold Soar?

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 143
  November 13, 2009 By Jeff Reckseit The following article is provided courtesy of Elliott Wave International (EWI). For more insights that challenge conventional financial wisdom, download EWI’s free 118-page Independent Investor eBook . ————- Large banks and more recently pension funds ...
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• The average American family must look at the current stock market rally as some kind of cruel joke.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  We have people anxiously waiting for government funds or paychecks to clear at the end of the month so they can wait outside of a Wal-Mart shopping center at midnight to buy food once their funds clear. We have nearly 36 million Americans on food stamps and another 27 million unemployed or underemployed. If this is ...
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• Lining up at Midnight at Wal-Mart to buy Food is part of the new Recovery

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Lining up at Midnight at Wal-Mart to buy Food is part of the new Recovery. Banks offering Mattress Interest Rates. The Invisible Recovery Outside of Wall Street. There seems to be a growing divide in the current U.S. economy. On the one hand, you have the financial sector swimming in their bailout-induced profits like ...
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• Hard to disagree with any of these points about the coming double dip recession.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  “Oof. Financials are taking a hit after Meredith Whitney told CNBC that she “hasn’t been this bearish in a year.” She’s also calling for a “double dip” recession. StreetInsider bullet-points her comments: * the banking sector is “not adequately capitalized today” * sees another leg down ...
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• If Anyone Can Salmond Can

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 544
  Its not often these days I read the Scotsman in detail, mainly because I have no enthusiasm for labour press releases, but this story is interesting: Salmond fights to restore faith in banking . During FMQs recently Alex Salmond (Scotlands First Minister) was chided for not paying enough attention to Scotlands ...
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• Online Mortgage Loan – Tips and Advice For Borrowers

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 450
  In the past 10 years the way we do business has changed. In the 90s a lot of business was done as brick and mortar. This means that business was conducted using a physical storefront with inventory and employees. Given the internet this has all changed. In the financial sector this has had a major impact on ...
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• The political economics of this situation is pretty straightforward. We have a double deficit problem.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  The government deficit has a strange history with the Republicans led by Bush and cheered on by Greenspan worrying over a no-debt economy less tha a decade ago. (Adults, let’s not forget this most important point of recent history.) If not for the Bush-Greenspan tax policies, the US debt would be trillions less ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Failure of Financial ETFs

  
  ETF Expert — Authority: 425
  Not a lot of folks are talking about it… but financial ETFs are struggling. While the “dollar carry trade” has encouraged investors to push big time benchmarks to 52-week highs, the SPDR Select Financial Fund (XLF) is still -6.8% below its closing high from 1 month ago.Consider...
  2 weeks ago

• From Riches To Rags

  
  Becoming Who You Want To Be — Authority: 150
  The Wall Street Journal has started revealing how the New York financial area is in such awful straits presently that some ex- stock gurus have disappeared to the modest life of working for a income. For example, look at Carlos Araya. He was once the Wall Street administrator you would see ordering high-priced dinners ...
  2 weeks ago

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