Financial Institutions

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• Whats your point?

  
  Credit Slips — Authority: 485
  Over the past year there have many, many articles about the perils of our nations debt load, and Ive been largely context to see these dispatched by that other New Jersey professor . But now the WSJ has entered my territory , arguing in a recent personal finance column that the CDS market shows that US ...
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• No Canadian bank bailouts? Says who?

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 425
  Institutional brokerage staff at Canada’s bank-owned investment dealers are in line for a record payday this month. And I see in my morning DTM offering that one of the justifications of this largess is that the public pursue was not used to keep our large financial institutions afloat during the recent global ...
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• Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Yunus terms poverty as an artificial human-made entity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Dec 10 (ANI): Terming poverty as an artificial and external imposition on society, Bangladesh Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus has said that it can be removed. Delivering the second Hiren Mukherjee memorial lecture in the Central Hall of Parliament here on Wednesday, Yunus said: “Poverty has not been created ...
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• Sapient, Geezeo partner for financial social media products (DMNews)

  
  Stompernet SEO Course — Authority: 166
  Interactive marketing agency Sapient is partnering with Geezeo, an online banking firm, to create social media capabilities for financial institutions.
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• Paul Volcker Disses Financial Innovations

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 795
  Julia Werdigier reports from England: Paul A. Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve and an adviser to President Obama, told a room packed with banking executives on Tuesday to "wake up" to the need for more drastic regulatory changes. "Has there been one financial leader standing up and saying, ...
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• Fact Checking the Post’s Fact Checkers

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  The Post’s fact checkers want to point out that blame for the economic crisis is bi-partisan as a jibe at President Obama. This is true, but they have the wrong story. The bubble economy dates back to the Clinton administration’s stock bubble driven boom. (Which was applauded by the Post for its budget ...
  23 hours ago

• Washington Post Joins Birthers

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  Okay, they haven’t actually questioned whether President Obama is a real American, but it wants Congress to approve trade deals (inaccurately terms “free-trade agreements”) with South Korea and Colombia to create jobs. There can be an economic argument for these bills (although the deadweight loss from ...
  23 hours ago

• The Current Health Care Reform Compromise

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  So the Sen Ten have reached a secret deal. The main points seem to be that the public option is replaced by an sub – exchange of private non profit insurers (which is very close to nothing at all) and people from 55 to 65 can buy into Medicare. I was going to give a post about why I like this compromise. Ezra ...
  23 hours ago

• RGE Wednesday Note – The Economics of Copenhagen

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  As global leaders begin meeting in Copenhagen to craft a new climate change deal, we take a look at what sort of deal might emerge, what different countries are bringing to the table and the likely economic costs of such a deal. This piece is excerpted from a longer piece, “ The Economics of Copenhagen ,” ...
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• William D. Green: Lifelong Learning For A Stronger Workforce

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  When real economic growth finally takes hold and unemployment rates begin to fall, it might be a lot easier to believe that the American workforce can actually return to business as usual. But positive numbers alone will not be enough to predict future success. The re-set of the global economy has magnified the real ...
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• Baroness Vadera: ‘I Still Have Nightmares About The Financial Crisis’

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  The former Government minister and one of the architects of the British efforts to rescue the financial system, told a high-level business conference in Sussex: “I don’t think we are through it yet — an IMF study showed at the middle of this year that banks had only declared half their losses on their books: we ...
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• The Secrets to Successful Market Investment Entry and Exit Timing

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  Shah Gilani writes: Many so-called experts would have you believe that it’s impossible to “time” the markets. That’s just not true. There’s actually a secret to market timing. It’s not just a matter of the economy. It’s a matter of how perception and collective psychology gauge the risk of ...
  23 hours ago

• Alistair Darling’s UK Pre-Budget Report Full Text

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  Mr Speaker, today’s Pre-Budget Report takes place at a critical time for our economy and for our country. Governments across the world have taken co-ordinated steps to deal with the biggest financial crisis for over half a century. Read more….
  23 hours ago

• Micro-credit programmes beat global meltdown: Muhammad Yunus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Microcredit programmes were able to weather the global meltdown as compared to the big conventional banks that were on the verge of collapse, Nobel laureate and noted economist Muhammad Yunus said here Wednesday.“While big conventional banks with all their collateral were collapsing, ...
  23 hours ago

• Fired Up About Financial Reform

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 656
  I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore… Really.  I am.  Now you may think that this could well be a normal state of affairs for me, considering that I serve as Sojourners’ Director of Policy and…
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• What Must Be Addressed: Rising Abject Poverty

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  By Charles Hugh Smith, OFTWOMINDS While the mainstream media hypes bogus statistics and endless propaganda about the economic “recovery,” and Wall Street pockets billions in bonuses, abject poverty is rising while the government dithers away trillions. CLARIFICATION: Many readers wrote to ask about the ...
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• Collapse In Tax Withholdings Refutes Improvements In Either Unemployment Or Corporate Profitability

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  Zero Hedge Even as the BLS and the administration are trying to cover up the real state of unemployment affairs using assorted semantic gimmicks of just what it means to be unemployed, and as companies provide adjusted EPS numbers, while actual earnings continue to collapse, the true barometer of ...
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• World Bank Sounds Alarm on Pension Crisis

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  Zero Hedge Submitted by Leo Kolivakis, publisher of Pension Pulse . Bill Tufts, publisher of the blog Fair Pensions for All, gave me a heads up that the World Bank released a report on Tuesday, Financial Crisis Hits Pension Systems in Europe and Central Asia : The financial ...
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• First Consumer Confidence Read Since Unemployment Report Upside Surprise, Is Down

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  Zero Hedge The ABC Consumer Confidence index was just released, and is notable as it is the first confidence read since the NFP/unemployment number was released last week by the BLS. And despite all expectations, and proddings by the Comcastic ones that the presumed drop in unemployment would boost ...
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• IG 13 Constituent Spread Update

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 451
  Zero Hedge Below we present an analysis of the 125 names that make up the CDX IG 13 index. The index closed at 97.75 today, with constituent names trading between 873 bps on the wide side, to 29 bps on the tight side. While in March the ten widest names were all trading north of 1000 bps, now even ...
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