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Banking Collections Administrator
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Banking Collections Administrator · Standard Banking Hours · Banking and Financial Services Collections · Excellent Conditions Opportunity : This is a great opportunity to use your banking or financial services collections experience and join a growing company. This role will involve ...4 hours ago -
A Double Dip in Housing?
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By Thomas Firey Washington is fretting this week over news that mortgage applications fell dramatically in November . Coupled with earlier indications of further softening in the housing market , there is growing fear that housing is headed for a “double-dip downturn” that could further damage the economy. As ...17 hours ago -
Credit Card Dementia and Boundary Cases
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By Jason Kuznicki The most interesting libertarian-related conversation I’ve read today comes from Rortybomb , by way of Andrew Sullivan , with commentary by Megan McArdle . Here’s a challenge to libertarians from Rortybomb, aka Mike Konczal : I want to pitch to the credit card and financial industry a ...1 day ago -
Popping Bubbles
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By Peter Van Doren David Leonhardt’s column today in the New York Times , in reaction to Ben Bernanke’s recent speech at the American Economic Association meetings, asks an important question: If the Federal Reserve failed to detect the housing bubble when it occurred, why should we entrust it with that role ...1 day ago -
Insurance Administrator - Cork
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INSURANCE ADMINISTRATOR We are looking to recruit an experienced Life and Pensions administrator for a Cork based company. The role will be based around a 3 or 5 day week dependent on candidate needs. REQUIREMENTS: 1-2 years experience in a financial service environment QFA qualified Ability to work on ...2 days ago -
How best to invest in gold and silver in 2010
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ArabianMoney has done a great deal of due diligence in gold and silver investment over the past couple of years. You do need to be careful. It is only too easy for somebody to take your money and claim to have invested it in gold and silver – perhaps pointing you to a few bars [...]2 days ago -
Did the Fed Buying MBS Make a Difference?
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By Mark A. Calabria Recent years have witnessed a multitude of new Federal Reserve programs aimed at bringing stability to our financial markets. One of the largest programs has been the Fed’s purchase of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guaranteed mortgage-backed securities (MBS). The program was initially announced ...3 days ago -
The Bailout Bowl
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By Tad DeHaven Neal McCluskey wrote an op-ed on the ways that taxpayers subsidize college football bowl games. As a college football fan, it pains me that I can’t even get a respite from big government on game day. This Wednesday’s matchup between Central Michigan and Troy will be particularly insulting to ...3 days ago -
Bernanke Still Doesn’t Get It
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By Mark A. Calabria Yesterday, at the annual meetings of the American Economic Association, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke offered a continued defense of the Fed’s monetary policies earlier this decade. Essentially he believes that monetary policy did not contribute to the housing bubble. He also makes clear that ...3 days ago -
Raising the Bar
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[ Dave Birch ] I thoroughly enjoyed the first two BarCampBank "unconferences" in London in 2008 and 2009 . So much so that I have persuaded my colleagues at Consult Hyperion to support a third which is very kindly being hosted by PayPal UK at their offices in Richmond , west London, on Saturday 30th January ...4 days ago -
Finance directors banking on better times in 2010
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Britain’s finance directors are at their most confident for two years and are gearing up for expansion as concerns ease about the availability of credit and the strength of the recapitalized banking system, according to a quarterly study by Deloitte. The survey, which takes the views of 128 finance chiefs, ...4 days ago -
Some holiday reading
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Want an in-depth look at the legislative struggle for financial reform in Congress? Read this excellent article from the Huffington Post’s Laura Bassett, Jeff Muskus and Elyse Siegel. It’s chock full of revealing eye-openers that show why passing strong financial regulation to rein in Wall Street is so ...1 week ago -
Madness: taxes that lose us income and employment
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Labour’s ‘bash-the-bankers’ bonus tax is, they say, supposed to raise £550 million in tax revenue . However, looks like this tax on jobs could cost us dear. JP Morgan, the giant US investment bank, is seriously considering scrapping plans to make Canary Wharf its European headquarters. Having spent ...1 week ago -
A Lump of Coal From Treasury
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By Mark A. Calabria On Christmas Eve, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner decided that the nation’s taxpayers had been naughty, and accordingly left a big lump of coal in their stockings. More specifically, after Congress had finally left town and health care filled the headlines, Treasury announced in a short press ...1 week ago -
Blank-Check Bailout for Fannie and Freddie Means Taxpayers Get a Lump of Coal from Obama
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By Daniel J. Mitchell Even though politicians already have flushed $400 billion down the rathole, the Obama Administration has announced that it will now give unlimited amounts of our money to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-created mortgage companies. While President Obama should be castigated ...1 week ago -
TARP Payouts: Wells Fargo & CitiGroup
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WashingtonCitiGroup & Wells Fargo Repay $45 billion TARP Investments$300 billion CitiGroup Loss Pool Guarantees Closed At Profit To TreasuryAt the close of business December 23, 2009, the U.S. Treasury announced TARP repayments totaling $45 billion from CitiGroup (NYSE:CITI) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC). FOR ...2 weeks ago -
University of Michigan Study Confirms Link between Financial Bailout and Corruption
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By Daniel J. Mitchell Since Senators engaged in open extortion and bribery to enact Reid’s government-run health care plan, it is hardly newsworthy that Washington is riddled with corruption. But the magnitude of sleaze is probably far greater than most people realize. There is a new study from a couple of ...2 weeks ago -
Duncan Dunked in WSJ
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By Neal McCluskey Last week, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal declaring that it’s time to end the Federal Family Education Loan program (FFEL) which subsidizes banks and insulates them against almost all lending risk. Duncan wants to eliminate the “middle ...2 weeks ago -
SBA Is Not Small Business Solution
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By Tad DeHaven There is a lot of talk in the press about the difficulty small businesses are having obtaining credit. President Obama recently admonished bankers for not lending enough to small businesses. However, it seems obvious that lenders would have a more difficult time finding creditworthy borrowers during a ...2 weeks ago -
Good News on Housing!
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By David Boaz The Wall Street Journal reports that some mortgage insurers and lenders are beginning to relax their down-payment requirements, so that buyers in some parts of the country can now borrow 95% instead of 90% of a property’s value. Buyers who can’t come up with even a 5% down payment can turn to ...2 weeks ago
