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• ABK: ONLY 1% chance they won’t default!!!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  “Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) — Ambac Financial Group Inc.’s bond- insurance unit faces a 99 percent chance of default, credit derivatives show, as financial institutions brace for the second-largest bond insurer to file a capital update with regulators later today. Swap Payouts Delinquency proceedings against the ...
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• USDA: Number of Americans going hungry increases

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 499
  By HENRY C. JACKSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON – More than one in seven American households struggled to put enough food on the table in 2008, the highest rate since the Agriculture Department began tracking  food security levels in 1995. That’s about 49 million people, or 14.6 percent of U.S. households. ...
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• Meredith Whitney: “I haven’t been this bearish in a year”

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 666
  Below is a CNBC video with Meredith Whitney in which she joins Nouriel Roubini on the doom and gloom parade.  Over the summer, both Whitney and Roubini were fairly optimistic. In June I said : Think of the consensus forecast as an anchor which restricts the outlook of any individual forecaster afraid of failing ...
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• Dodds Financial Reform Proposal

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 121
  Im still waiting for Congress to take real action to deal with the hegemony of huge financial institutions, including the "shadow banking system" of hedge fund ownership of banks and other institutions. Last week, I noted that Dodd has come out with a bill that does not pretend to hoe the party line.  Whether that ...
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• Government, BOG asked to protect rural banks from poaching

  
  The Ghanaian Journal — Authority: 156
  GNA – The North Eastern Chapter of Association of Rural Banks has called on the government and the Bank of Ghana (BOG) to protect rural banks from poaching of their staff by the traditional banks.    The Chapter, which comprises rural banks in the Northern and Upper East regions, said the rural [...]
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• America a Fascist Nation

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  America a Fascist Nation David L Lamon I have to wonder at this gathering of reprobates in Copenhagen if they secretly agreed to bilk the U.S. taxpayer for money without an officially declared agreement as the U.S. and U.N. has done repeatedly over the years. “. In other words, an agreement made in secret that ...
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• Jaguar Land Rover gets 170-mn pound loan from GE Capital

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, Nov 16 (IANS) GE Capital Monday signed an agreement with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the UK-based subsidiary of India’s Tata Motors, to provide a working capital facility of up to 170 million pounds (over Rs.1,300 crore) for a five-year term.In a statement, GE said the facility represented “an innovative ...
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• 200 Mortgage Fatalities This Year

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 450
  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation reported last week the closing of three federally insured financial institutions. In addition, Financial Resources Mortgage Inc. closed and New South Federal Savings Bank suspended mortgage originations, according to published reports. In all, MortgageDaily.com has tracked ...
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• Asset Search News Roundup: November 16, 2009

  
  Asset Search Blog — Authority: 115
  A tax filing at the " Financials Page " of its website reveals that the Alavi Foundation had assets in 2007 with a fair market value of nearly $88 million.  Federal prosecutors meanwhile, filed an amended complaint last Thursday against The Alavi Foundation.  It sought asset forfeiture, as reported by Reuters , ...
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• Nochex – Best UK Merchant Account Company For Home-Based, Retail, Internet Business To Collect Credit Cards Payments

  
  Make Cash Online Today — Authority: 133
  Nochex – Cheap United kingdom Merchant Account Provider For Your Business To Accept Credit Cards Transactions If you own a business based in UK, a local merchant account is the good option for your company. Because once you have a business and a merchant account located in your country, it is fast to handle your ...
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• Bryan Zepp Jamieson: Monkeys on a Stick

  
  The Lonesome Mongoose — Authority: 109
  The grotesque dance of corporate legislators. Bryan Zepp Jamieson, November 15, 2009 One of the early fallouts of “tort reform”, the ongoing drive by corporations to put themselves beyond the reach of the law, has been the widespread use of waivers mandating private arbitration in the event of any dispute. ...
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• Fixed Term Investment Characteristics

  
  Rich Credit Debt Loan — Authority: 537
  The government only represents approximately 30 percent of our retirement income allotment. The companies that we work for and their retirement pension plan is only going to amount to another 30 percent or so, and most people do not even have these types of retirement plans. In other words, it is absolutely up to us ...
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• No more too big to fail

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  Our company, J.P. Morgan Chase, employs more than 220,000 people, serves well over 100 million customers, lends hundreds of millions of dollars each day and has operations in nearly 100 countries. And if some unforeseen circumstance should put this firm at risk of collapse, I believe we should be allowed to fail. As ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• Guest Essay: Iron Sharpens Iron

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 499
  By Charles Hugh Smith, OFTWOMINDS We feature a new essay by author Chris Sullins, “Iron Sharpens Iron” . Chris Sullins, who recently published his Strategic Action Thriller Operation SERF , finally found time to compose a new essay. The long drought of new Readers Journal essays has finally been ...
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• Barofsky: Bailout "Almost Certainly" a Financial Loss for Taxpayers

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 499
  By Chris Carey, Bailout Sleuth The federal bailout of the nation’s financial sector will “almost certainly” result in a loss for taxpayers, the inspector general overseeing the program said yesterday. “We need to temper or be realistic about our expectations, a dollar-for-dollar return is just highly ...
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• Spot Gold On June 1, 2010: $2000.00

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 499
  Zero Hedge Over Under More articles from Zero Hedge….
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• Radio Zero: Putin’s Bane

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 499
  Zero Hedge It’s not Russian Radio and video hasn’t killed us yet. Listen here: http://cdo.zerohedge.com:8000/listen.pls Or pick up our West Coast Mirror (with 1000 slots) here: http://72.13.86.66:8000/listen.pls thanks to the mind-blowing generosity of EGI Hosting . Chat up the DJ (send your ...
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• Fed’s Bill Dudley Explains Bank Runs, Discusses Collateral Risks, Suggests Way To Prevent Systemic Collapse

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 499
  Zero Hedge An impressively comprehensive presentation by Bill Dudley before the Center for Economic Policy Studies Symposium earlier, discusses, and ties in, all the key concepts Zero Hedge has been discussing over the past several months, among these the tri-party repo system, bank runs (what and why), ...
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