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• Consumer Financial Protection: An Alternative

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 745
  Creating a new “Consumer Financial Protection Agency” (CFPA), as proposed in the financial regulation bill now before the House, would raise costs for consumers, reduce the number and type of products available to them, increase the micro-management of financial services firms, and greatly increase the confusion ...
  18 hours ago

• Mortgage Cramdowns Will Hurt Consumers

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 745
  Just as the housing market is showing definite signs that it is stabilizing after a lengthy drop in housing prices, the House of Representatives is about to vote on proposal that would destabilize it once again while also raising the cost of mortgages for future home buyers. The proposal – to be offered by Rep. ...
  19 hours ago

• No Canadian bank bailouts? Says who?

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 424
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• Boeing and the Higgs Effect

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 516
  | Peter Klein | In their calls for greatly expanding the Federal Reserve System’s and Treasury Department’s roles in the economy, Chairman Bernanke, Secretaries Paulson and Geithner, and their academic enablers have repeatedly emphasized the temporary nature of these “emergency” measures. “History is ...
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• The Fallacy Which Underpins the EU: The Euro Time Bomb Revealed by Greece

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 605
  The fallacy which underpins the European Union’s common market and euro currency has been exposed once again by the current financial crisis in Greece which threatens “dire consequences” for the common currency. The situation in Greece was described earlier this week by the CEO of Deutchse Bank, Josef ...
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• Geithner: TARP program extended to Oct.

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 459
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced Wednesday that the U.S. administration will extend the governments financial bailout program until next fall. In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Geithner said the extension is "necessary to assist American families and stabilize financial markets." ...
  2 days ago

• Who else but bankers gets a bonus simply for turning up?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  If bankers want rewards, then perhaps they should start earning them, says Tracy Corrigan.
  2 days ago

• First Dubai… Now Greece… Who’s next?

  
  Economics — Authority: 140
  First Dubai… Now Greece… Who’s next? Greece saw its credit ratings downgraded to the lowest level in the eurozone on Tuesday as fears mounted over its deteriorating public finances. For the first time in 10 years, Greece lost its A rating, as Fitch cut ratings on Greek debt to BBB+ with a negative ...
  2 days ago

• The Informant’s Incentive

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 557
  by Chidem Kurdas This October, prosecutors announced a case of hedge fund insider trading with multiple arrests and perp walks amid great media fanfare. Revelations from court documents have become curiouser and curiouser. The government’s key witness, Roomy Khan, comes across as a determined practitioner of ...
  2 days ago

• Americans Accumulate Substantial Retirement Assets in IRAs

  
  The Personal Finance Chronicle — Authority: 120
  From the Investment Company Institute: IRA Ownership Widespread Across U.S. Population Washington, DC, November 23, 2009 - Americans are accumulating significant resources in individual retirement accounts (IRAs) through rollovers from employer-sponsored retirement plans and contributions, according to a ...
  3 days ago

• U.S. Shares Plummet As World Markets Decline On Stability Worries

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 535
  Melvin Baker - AHN Reporter New York, NY (AHN) - U.S.
  3 days ago

• Mobile Banking basics and issues

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 429
  RBI Dep Governor, K.C. Chakrabarty gives nice insights into mobile banking/commerce. It is a good reality check on mobile-banking from an Indian perspective. We usually think using technology should make it very easy to provide fin services, but there are many risks as well. He draws experiences from international ...
  3 days ago

• Ten Laws of Technical Trading

  
  The Wild Investor - Stock Market Advice and Education — Authority: 420
  I have no idea what I’d do without StockCharts.com. The free stock charting website offers charts that rival paid applications. They also have a pretty good technical analysis-focused blog. They recently posted their “Ten Laws of Technical Trading” which anybody interested in technical analysis should read. ...
  3 days ago

• SEC’s Insider Trading Focus Provides Insight Into Enforcement Priorities

  
  Bulletproof — Authority: 421
  In just the last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued at least 36 subpoenas to brokerage houses and hedge funds as the agency continues to make it clear that it means business when it comes to insider trading. Last month, federal authorities arrested 20 individuals connected with the now ...
  3 days ago

• Riksbank Balance sheet expansion and were negative interest rates useful?

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 429
  It is balance sheets gaore. All central bankers are busy explaining how they used their balance sheets in this crisis. See Bank of England , Fed , Comparison between Fed, Bank of England and Bank of Japan  and other posts on the topic here . Now, Svante Öberg, Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor explains how ...
  4 days ago

• Bottom up vs Top Down Macroeconomic thinking

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 429
  Paul De Gruawe  has written a brilliant post in voxeu  on exciting things to come in economics. The post is a summary of the paper he has written on the subject. Here is a presentation on the paper. He says The extraordinary assumptions of macroeconomic models have left the outside world perplexed about what ...
  4 days ago

• RBI on financial outreach tour

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 429
  I had just pointed  a while ago that Charlie King, Bank of England’s Deputy Governor is going around UK to explain quantitative easing and BoE role in the crisis. I came across this Business Standard news story  which says RBI top bosses (including Governor and 4 deputy Govs) are on a financial outreach tour ...
  4 days ago

• Unemployment Is Key To Economic Recovery

  
  The Wild Investor - Stock Market Advice and Education — Authority: 420
  With a slew of economic and retail numbers due to be released this week, an interesting question will undoubtedly be the hot topic: Is the economy actually improving? By looking at the overall U.S. market returns YTD, it would seem that we’ve definitely made heavy strides in the right direction, but then again ...
  4 days ago

• No one questions why the dollar is set to raise.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Suffice to say as the dollar rises any attempt to increase interest rates will multiply the effects of a strong dollar.The fed cannot lower interest rates so if the dollar takes off with a lot of velocity the effects had better be good and not bad because the fed is all out of bullets. As investors sell off gold a ...
  4 days ago

• Opening a US bank account (bank of america) by ITlady

  
  freelancersblog.net — Authority: 177
  hello I’m not US resident , and i want to open a bank account there within one week or less. I want the account in bank of america. so i want a person who can provide me the full service, i don’t want any guides or information , I want a service… (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: Customer Support, Finance, Financial ...
  4 days ago

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