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  • Dubai World could sell assets to ease debt burden


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    • Dubai government finance chief says some assets may be sold • Creditors could be forced to accept short and late repayments Dubai World may sell off domestic and overseas assets as it attempts to rescue itself from the burden of $60bn (£36.5bn) debts, the emirates government said today. The stricken ...
    8 hours ago
  • Now lets tax transactions | Stephany Griffith-Jones


    Comment is free | guardian.co.ukAuthority Authority: 164
    A currency exchange levy would work politically and morally for a debt-ridden, post-crisis world A global financial transactions tax may have seemed a utopian dream in the past. This was surprising, given that on a national level many countries have successfully implemented financial transactions taxes. Indeed, one ...
    8 hours ago
  • Cheaper bank bail-outs lead Obama to weigh job spending


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 727
    Washington, Dec 8 (DPA) US President Barack Obama is mulling whether to inject more public funds into the struggling jobs market in the US, taking advantage of the less-than-expected cost of financial bail-outs over the past year.Obama was expected to unveil a package of measures to tackle unemployment during a major ...
    9 hours ago
  • Switzerland looks to lure disaffected bankers with tempting tax laws


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    • Canton of Uri alleged subject of DVD circulated in City • Financial industry branching out from Geneva and Zurich The Swiss canton of Uri is more used to holidaymakers flocking to see its stunning Alpine vistas and the statue, in the capital Altdorf, dedicated to national hero William Tell. But the diminutive ...
    10 hours ago
  • Russian aluminium provider Rusal forced to delay $3bn flotation


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    • Hong Kong stock exchange blocks long-awaited IPO • Delay comes as blow to oligarch owner Oleg Deripaska Rusal, the worlds largest aluminium producer, suffered a humiliating setback today after it was forced to delay its long-awaited $3bn (£1.8bn) share flotation on the Hong Kong stock exchange. In a blow to ...
    10 hours ago
  • Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Constitutionality of SOX Board


    ABA JournalAuthority Authority: 650
    The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today on the constitutionality of a financial watchdog agency created by the Sarbanes-Oxley law. At issue is whether the Securities and Exchange Commission may appoint members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board without violating the Constitution. Challengers to ...
    12 hours ago
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield rate increase, Obama lies, Blue Cross Blue Patients, ObamaCare study, Premiums rise 54%, Congressional Budget Office, Pelosi and Reid lies


    Citizen WellsAuthority Authority: 559
    More Obama Lies   ****  Update  Below 12/7/09, 1:05 PM ET  ****  Weeks before I read the Wall Street Journal article below, I knew that ObamaCare would raise rates for existing health care policy holders and that the impact would happen sooner than later. Several weeks ago, a close personal friend informed ...
    12 hours ago
  • Cash is King


    zero hedgeAuthority Authority: 751
    One thing you might expect in the midst of a bank confidence crisis (aside from a spike in mattress sales) is a spike in currency demand.  Yeah, the UKs got that , but really, it is not about confidence.  Promise. Mr Bailey, who is also executive director for banking services at the Bank, said that low ...
    12 hours ago
  • The Curious Case of the Missing $100bn


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    The WSJ says that the Obama administration expects to lose $141bn from TARP, down from previous estimates of $341bn. The NYT says that the Obama administration expects to lose $42bn from TARP, down from previous estimates of $341bn. Its not that Im not grateful, but whered the NYT find that extra $99bn? Turns ...
    12 hours ago
  • The Prosperity Gospel and the Financial Crisis -- Sightings


    Ponderings on a Faith JourneyAuthority Authority: 136
    Martin Marty is back from a month long absence -- traveling the world it appears -- and wrestles with the question of how a certain form of Christianity may have contributed to the current crisis. Much of the problem is rooted in the collapse of a housing bubble, created in large part by people who overbought. ...
    12 hours ago
  • EPA Poised to Declare CO2 a Public Danger


    The Liberty Tree LanternAuthority Authority: 132
    By IAN TALLEY WALL STREET JOURNAL   WASHINGTON–The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will early next week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy, according to several people close to the matter. ...
    13 hours ago
  • Dispelling The “Capitalism Failed” Myth


    Conservative CompendiumAuthority Authority: 134
    This won’t be the first time the subject has been discussed on this blog, but the determination of the many to paint last year’s financial implosion as a failure of capitalism requires diligence and constant restatement of the truth. The truth is exactly what Steven Horwitz and Peter Boettke bring in their new ...
    14 hours ago
  • TARP’s apparently gonna cost a little less. Time to celebrate!


    ShortFormBlogAuthority Authority: 525
    $ 341 billion the original anticipated cost of TARP to taxpayers; thats pretty huge, right? - $ 200 billion the amount the government says you can now chop off that number; hooray! source
    14 hours ago
  • Trickle-Up Economics


    In These New TimesAuthority Authority: 139
    My choice for article of the year!Paul Craig RobertsGlobal Research7th December, 2009Goldman Sachs senior executives are arming themselves with New York gun permits, according to Alice Schroeder on Bloomberg.com. The banksters “are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the ...
    15 hours ago
  • Leading economists spell out letter of the law ahead of PBR


    ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUCAuthority Authority: 568
    There’s a very significant letter published in the FT today , signed by twelve leading professors of economics. They’re calling on the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, not to risk the recovery through premature spending cuts in this week’s Pre-Budget Report. I’ve copied it out below. The letter that shows that ...
    18 hours ago
  • Elevating HR to Drive Innovation


    Blogging InnovationAuthority Authority: 139
    by Rowan Gibson Its every employees nightmare in recessionary times: finding a "pink slip" in the pay envelope, or getting a fateful phone call from HR. Over five million workers in America have had that gut-wrenching experience since the economy hit a wall in 2007. And this year the global layoff tsunami will ...
    20 hours ago
  • Treasury Forecasts Smaller Loss From Bank Rescue - NYTimes.com


    Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.comAuthority Authority: 167
    The Treasury Department expects to recover all but $42 billion of the $370 billion it has lent to ailing companies since the financial crisis began last year, with the portion lent to banks actually showing a slight profit, according to a new Treasury report.
    21 hours ago
  • 10 Best Books About The Financial Crisis


    Debt Consolidation - Consolidate Debt Now!Authority Authority: 430
    10 Best Books about the Financial Crisis Along with the great tsunami waves of latest individual finance books in the market, it may turn out to be a little irresistible in demanding to gather suitable reading on the financial disaster. A number of books listed below were written in respect to the crisis ...
    21 hours ago
  • Recent World Events Indicate Impending Market Chaos


    Pak Alert PressAuthority Authority: 578
    By Giordano Bruno | Neithercorp Press For the past couple years we have been covering every nuance of the economic collapse and in almost every instance we have come to the conclusion that 2010 would be the year that the U.S. would see an incredible downturn, possibly resulting in the inflationary disintegration of ...
    22 hours ago
  • Gold And Silver: Why They Are Important, And Why They Are Often Manipulated


    Pak Alert PressAuthority Authority: 578
    By Giordano Bruno | Neithercorp Press For decades, gold and silver investors have been warning the masses about the catastrophic weaknesses inherent in fiat currencies; currencies backed by nothing but empty promises and printed out of thin air ad nauseam by Central Banks. Precious metals, they said, were the only ...
    22 hours ago

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