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• What Are The Long-Term Opportunities In This Market

  
  The Wild Investor - Stock Market Advice and Education — Authority: 123
  It’s always great to hear other voices, opinions, and strategies when it comes to investing. Evan from Stock Investing 101 was nice enough to share his view on the market. Let me know what you think and if you agree with him. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here . The great ...
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• RBI’s upcoming 2 research conferences

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 433
  I just noticed RBI’s website  on its left side informs of two upcoming research conferences. First International Research Conference on 12-13 Feb 2010 at Mumbai. This conference is RBI celebrating  its 75th year (platinum jubilee) and will be a biennial event from 2010 onwards (once every 2 years). The ...
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• Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 433
  Though I knew it was coming but was not aware that it has already been set up. John Taylor in his blog points  that first public hearing of the commission is slated to be held on 13 January 2010. That public hearings are about to start is excellent news. Without such an investigation, followed by a clear ...
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• Crisis reading list from Menzie Chinn

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 433
  Menzie Chinn  who coauthors the superblog econbrowser  is teaching a new course in Fall 2009 - Policy Responses to the Great Recession.  The course details are here : This course will examine the hypotheses underlying the origins and propagation of the Great Recession of 2007, and the policy responses that ...
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• Economics lessons from Sports/Sportspersons

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 433
  Charles Plosser, President of Philadelphia Fed gave a speech recently . He says Ice Hockey great, Wayne Gretzky provides lessons for Monetary Policy. This realization was driven home to me here in Rochester. As my children were growing up, I found that there was a way to combine all three of these things into one ...
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• Earn Extra Money With Forex Trading – Is It Possible??

  
  Homebusiness-Facts.com — Authority: 158
  If youre looking for a great way to make some extra money from home, one of the ways you can do this is by something known as "Forex trading." Forex trading stands for "foreign exchange trading," and it means that you buy and sell foreign exchange currency so as to turn a profit. However, is this really a good way to ...
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• Banks Bundled Bad Debt, Bet Against It and Won (Clients lost)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  In late October 2007, as the financial markets were starting to come unglued, a Goldman Sachs trader, Jonathan M. Egol, received very good news. At 37, he was named a managing director at the firm. Mr. Egol, a Princeton graduate, had risen to prominence inside the bank by creating mortgage-related securities, named ...
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• Goldman Begins Balancing Risks and Rewards

  
  Bulletproof — Authority: 128
  When Goldman Sachs announced earlier this month that its 30-member Management Committee won’t receive cash bonuses for 2009 , the global investment bank once again demonstrated its leadership on one of the most contentious issues of the year – executive compensation. As a key part of the bank’s overall plan, ...
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• Consider These Options Before Your Start Your Loan Modification Process

  
  Financial Resource: Beginner Investing to Financial Independence! — Authority: 142
  Since foreclosures have started hitting the market, more and more people are seeking refuge under loan modification . However, being a fairly new trend, there is a lot of chaos amongst the masses to get the desired result. A recent search on Google for the keyword “Loan Modification” showed 2,740,000 results ...
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• An account of Fed mistakes

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 433
  Binyamin Appelbaum and David Cho have a nice write-up on where Fed went wrong  in this crisis. This one takes the cake: In January 2005, National City’s chief economist had delivered a prescient warning to the Fed’s board of governors: An increasingly overvalued housing market posed a threat to the broader ...
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• Used Auto Financing: Tactics To Get A Loan

  
  Financial Resource: Beginner Investing to Financial Independence! — Authority: 142
  You can get used car financing even with bad credit, and make a good deal for yourself. There are various tactics, which can be used to get control when financing a used car. This will help you in getting success with used car loans , even if you have bad credit history. Make An Effort To Improve Your Credit Score ...
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• IGNOU starts new course in finance

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Thursday said it has started a new course in financial markets practice which will commence from January.Using multi-media design and technology aided delivery system, the one year post graduate diploma programme will be offered in ...
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• Geithner: On the Road to Recovery. Politics At Its Best

  
  The Wild Investor - Stock Market Advice and Education — Authority: 123
  I’ll try my best to not sound like a pessimist here, but can you blame me? On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told National Public Radio that he strongly believes we are on the road to recovery, but it won’t be fast. Translation: We will recover sometime in the future, but who knows when. He ...
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• An Ominous Sign?

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 432
  As the following video from the New York Stock Exchange yesterday morning demonstrates, it appears sinister forces are indeed behind the U.S. financial markets… “Darth Vader Opens Wall Street” YouTube Video Link
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• Chile the next developed economy..??

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 433
  Juan Forero of Washington Post has a write-up on Chile economy  (HT: Marginal Revolution ).  He says: This week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a club of rich nations that includes the United States, Japan and several European countries, formally invited Chile to join. Becoming the ...
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• Two e-books on financial reform and trade in this crisis

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 433
  NYU Stern econs have prepared a e-book on financial reform . The chapter summaries are here . November 2008 saw the global financial system on the brink of collapse; the crisis – which began in 2007 – had entered a new and dangerous phase. That time we responded by gathering a group of world-renown financial ...
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• Fred C. Kelly Declares the Crowd is Always Wrong

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 526
  What can investors expect next year? We can expect that the crowd will probably be wrong. Or as Fred C. Kelly put it more emphatically: "The crowd always loses because the crowd is always wrong. It is wrong because it behaves normally." Kelly wrote this in a little 1930 book titled Why You Win or Lose: the ...
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• World Bank’s Knowledge in Development Notes

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 433
  I came across this very valuable short research notes section on World Bank website – Knowledge in Development Notes These notes, prepared in 2009, provide background on current development issues based on research from inside and outside the World Bank. They ask What works? What doesn’t? Why? and What’s ...
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• 10 Best And Worst ETFs Of 2009

  
  The Wild Investor - Stock Market Advice and Education — Authority: 123
  People seem to wonder what is the point of these “best of” and “worst of” lists. Besides just being interesting to see what the numbers were, it also shows you what worked in 2009 and what we may want to look at (or avoid in 2010). You’ll remember that exchange-trade funds are basically mutual funds that ...
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• Credit Card Debt Consolidation – The Sure-Shot Way Out Of Debts

  
  Financial Resource: Beginner Investing to Financial Independence! — Authority: 142
  Many people may be apprehensive about the idea of debt consolidation. Why would the lenders let go off their money? How do the intermediary debt consolidation companies benefit in the process? How do the companies save the debtors money and make profit too? It many sound unbelievable. Yet, debt consolidation is a ...
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