Great Recession

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• The Decade of Nothing

  
  Conserva tive Radical — Authority: 139
  The Decade of Nothing : Paul Krugman reminds us to be gloomy about the aughts.
  12 hours ago

• Foreclosures Causing Mass American Migration

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 144
  The real estate recession, which has frozen more then 10 percent of homeowners in their homes, has slowed domestic migration dramatically in many states in the South and West, including Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, South Carolina and Montana.According to Census Bureau estimates several states have negative ...
  14 hours ago

• Scrooge Updated

  
  Get the Flick — Authority: 428
  Just when you were getting your head wrapped around collateralized debt obligations, you find out that there is such a thing as synthetic collateralized debt obligations. And if you think that will tax your brain, wait until you read this. Banks Bundled Bad Debt, Bet Against It and Won ”Goldman was not the ...
  4 days ago

• The Incredible Shrinking Third Quarter U.S. GDP Figures

  
  Global Economic Crisis — Authority: 116
  It was with triumphant fanfare that the Obama administration initially announced that the Q3 results for the U.S. economy showed a robust 3.5% annualized growth, signalling and end to the Great Recession. Predictably, the Dow Jones index soared. Then, somewhat latter, a revised number came in from the Bureau of ...
  5 days ago

• Time’s Person of the Year Drives the Crisis Spiral

  
  Jutia Group — Authority: 578
  Fed President Ben Bernanke has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2009. However, in looking back at former People of the Year it becomes crystal clear that this title doesn’t necessarily mean that the honored person has done something good for the world … It only meant that he or she had made ...
  5 days ago

• Tiger Woods and Mammon’s Scorecard

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 650
  Money has become the measure of man, contributing much to our recent sorrows. It may, indeed, be the prime reason. Greed, a sin, leads to ruin. As we try to come to grips with why the wheels came off the…
  5 days ago

• The Great Recession’s Ten Commandments

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 623
  Are we safely on the other side of The Great Recession ?  Are we about to double dip?  Can a single shred of data from the government be trusted?  What letters shape will the recovery take?  Whatever, well see. For now, Im still going to continue to abide by the The Great Recessions Ten Commandments until we ...
  6 days ago

• Outlook for 2010 and beyond

  
  The Housing Chronicles Blog — Authority: 114
  Given the depth of the Great Recession’s impact on the housing industry, most insiders are hoping for that long-awaited economic rebound which will finally provide some solid flooring to our decimated industry. And some may get their wish, although the recovery will be uneven, slow and prone to a variety of ...
  1 week ago

• Economists Believe the Recession is Far From Over

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 144
  The Economist warns that the recession we just experienced is only a small taste of the pain to come.While massive government action around the world softened this recession’s blow, to the point that many in the world barely felt it, it will soon be time to deal with the repercussions of bailouts and stimulus.Read ...
  1 week ago

• Has Marylands economy hit bottom?

  
  Jay Hancock's blog — Authority: 477
  Todays column reprises a piece I wrote a year ago, right after the authorities officially proclaimed a recession, about how Marylands economy is doing and where its going. I called back the folks I talked to in December 2008. Its slow, but at least theyre seeing signs that were at or near the bottom. Even so, ...
  1 week ago

• SEC just now seeking key information on meltdown

  
  theCLog — Authority: 444
  Another amazing investigative journalism piece of awesomeness from our friends at ProPublica — by Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger This story is part of an ongoing investigation with NPR’s Planet Money . Almost three years since banks started taking losses that led to the worst financial ...
  1 week ago

• Bleeding the Economy

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 530
  by Roger Koppl At the Cobden Centre ’s website (and here ), Steve Baker discusses recent Fed signals in the context of Big Players theory.  The more active the Fed (or other central bank), the greater the fraction of entrepreneurial attention devoted to Fed watching rather than productive activity.  As Baker ...
  1 week ago

• Maryland economy shows signs of stabilizing

  
  Jay Hancock's blog — Authority: 477
  State policymakers tell Laura Smitherman in todays Sun that, despite new tax-collection disappointments, the Maryland economy is showing signs of bottoming out. Comptroller Peter Franchots initial reaction to the latest revenue estimates "is one of relief." House Speaker Mike Bush is "cautiously optimistic."Im ...
  1 week ago

• Hello Wall Street? Barack Calling. Can You Hear Me Now? Hello???

  
  BAGnewsNotes — Authority: 549
  The question, Mr. President, is how do you expect to call these guys onto the carpet when you cant even get them on the carpet ? Bad weather or not, consider the symbolism of some of the biggest banking execs -- including Blankfein of Goldman Sachs; Mack of Morgan Stanley; and Parsons of Citi -- not showing up for ...
  2 weeks ago

• "The private-equity deal makers who bought and sold once-solid companies like trading cards, saddling..."

  
  To Here Knows When — Authority: 140
  “The private-equity deal makers who bought and sold once-solid companies like trading cards, saddling them with debt, never saw the workers whose jobs were shredded by their cunning games of financial looting. The geniuses in Washington and on Wall Street who invented junk mortgages and then bundled and sold them as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Go go go go carefully, go airstream driver

  
  Jay Hancock's blog — Authority: 477
  This is either good news: People are buying RVs because the economy is picking up. Or its bad news: People are buying RVs because theyre living in them. Airstream, a leading recreational vehicle manufacturer in North America, announced today that it has increased its production by 25% since October in order to meet ...
  2 weeks ago

• How do states deal with fiscal crisis? A history lesson

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 608
  States are grappling with “nightmare scenarios” but history suggests there won’t be catastrophic results, says a Stateline report today. The report goes back in time to look at how states and the federal government responded during the recession of the early 1980’s, the Great Depression, the Panic of 1837, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Theater Review | The Great Recession: One Man’s Rotten Economy Is Another Man’s Inspiration. Discuss.

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  This collection of new short plays inspired by our annus horribilis is a mostly low-interest evening.
  2 weeks ago

• Economic Forecast 2010

  
  Global Economic Crisis — Authority: 116
  President Barack Obama’s chief economic advisor is Larry Summers, the man who served as Treasury Secretary to Bill Clinton. It was during the Clinton administration that Summers led the drive to deregulate the financial industry, a policy measure that contributed significantly to the financial collapse of 2008. This ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Particular Darkness of Our Great Recession

  
  BAGnewsNotes — Authority: 549
  What gives our Great Recession its particular darkness ... is the disconnect between the corporate culture that is dictating the firing and the rest of us. In the shorthand of the day, it’s the dichotomy between Wall Street and Main Street, though that oversimplifies the divide. This disconnect isn’t just about ...
  2 weeks ago

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