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• Online Mortgage Loan – Tips and Advice For Borrowers

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 450
  In the past 10 years the way we do business has changed. In the 90s a lot of business was done as brick and mortar. This means that business was conducted using a physical storefront with inventory and employees. Given the internet this has all changed. In the financial sector this has had a major impact on ...
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• The political economics of this situation is pretty straightforward. We have a double deficit problem.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  The government deficit has a strange history with the Republicans led by Bush and cheered on by Greenspan worrying over a no-debt economy less tha a decade ago. (Adults, let’s not forget this most important point of recent history.) If not for the Bush-Greenspan tax policies, the US debt would be trillions less ...
  2 days ago

• The Failure of Financial ETFs

  
  ETF Expert — Authority: 131
  Not a lot of folks are talking about it… but financial ETFs are struggling. While the “dollar carry trade” has encouraged investors to push big time benchmarks to 52-week highs, the SPDR Select Financial Fund (XLF) is still -6.8% below its closing high from 1 month ago.Consider...
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• From Riches To Rags

  
  Becoming Who You Want To Be — Authority: 151
  The Wall Street Journal has started revealing how the New York financial area is in such awful straits presently that some ex- stock gurus have disappeared to the modest life of working for a income. For example, look at Carlos Araya. He was once the Wall Street administrator you would see ordering high-priced dinners ...
  3 days ago

• The Recession Is Still Very Much Alive.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  There seems to be a growing divide in the current U.S. economy. On the one hand, you have the financial sector swimming in their bailout-induced profits like a modern day Scrooge Mcduck. In their circles, it appears as if the recession is over. On the other hand, you have average Americans seeing access to credit ...
  4 days ago

• BI: Impact of crisis began to subside

  
  Bank Indonesia — Authority: 121
  Bank Indonesia is assessing the impact of the global economic crisis could hit almost all sectors perkonomian, now began to subside.BI Senior Deputy Governor Nasution Nasution said Indonesia’s economy began to show improvement this year. This is evident from the preservation of inflation, a stable economic growth, ...
  4 days ago

• Sponsor An Executive

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 569
  That’s right America. Because we’re all in this TOGETHER. “Sponsor An Executive” YouTube Video Link
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• Senator Dodd Calls For ‘Sweeping New Government Powers’ To Prevent Another Economic Collapse

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 569
  More fairytales coming out of Washington today so as you and I can sleep better at night knowing the Great Nanny State is watching over us. From the Associated Press’ Anne Flaherty: Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd on Tuesday called for sweeping new government powers to prevent another economic ...
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• 2009 Wall Street bonuses …

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 144
  … are not going to go over all that great . I understand the nature of compensation in the financial industry, but sometimes image is everything, and the industry has a pretty shabby image on Main Street. From the link: Ask yourself, in this day and age, with officially reported unemployment at 10.2%, the ...
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• The Big Shift

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  In recent months, Ive repeatedly made the point that the financial crisis was a symptom, not a cause. Innovation was weaker than expected, private sector job growth outside of healthcare was virtually nonexistent, while real wages and real stock values showed little gains from the late 1990s to the end of 2007, when ...
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• In the 1930s over 11,000 banks failed.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  Many depositors lost all of their funds. Back then most of those banks were state chartered and were quite small, so the number sounds much bigger than the problem actually was in dollar terms. Today we have seen a consolidation in the number of banks from around 11,000 ten years ago to around 8,300 in the summer of ...
  6 days ago

• Does Wall Street Control Washington?

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 569
  “For anyone who takes issue with our increased focus on politics on Mad Money, let me make a few things clear. We are not a partisan show. We don’t care about left or right. In fact, if it were up to us, we wouldn’t be talking about politics at all. We’d much rather be directly talking about stocks that work ...
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• EU states given stark warning on debt levels

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  The European Union’s public debt could by 2014 rise to 100 per cent of gross domestic product – a year’s economic output – unless governments take firm action to restore fiscal discipline, EU finance ministers will be warned on Monday. The stark message is contained in a European Commission analysis, which ...
  1 week ago

• US Clashes With UK Over New Tax Proposal

  
  taxgirl — Authority: 499
  When it comes to economics, the US and UK tend to find themselves on the same page. A recent example is their consolidated front over the need for banking transparency – both countries took a tough approach with respect to the banking secrecy laws of in Switzerland and Luxembourg. But this weekend, the US and the ...
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• Mobile phones and economic development

  
  Ajay Shah's blog — Authority: 504
  The CMIE Consumer Pyramids data shows that in all their income categories, more than 50% of households have a mobile phone. It is only in their bottom category `Lower Middle Income - II that only 37.5% of households have mobile phones. From `Higher Middle Income - III upwards, the incidence is above 80%. If ...
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• Gambling, Washington-Style

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 569
  Had to pop some Tums before sitting down to write this post. Read it, and you’ll understand why. From MarketWatch this morning: At its high point, the federal government was guaranteeing or insuring $4.3 trillion in face value of financial assets, according to a report released Friday by the Congressional ...
  1 week ago

• Signs Of The Time, Part 56

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 569
  What Wall Street wants, Wall Street gets. Even at the expense of your own health, according to some reports.  From Reuters’ Bill Berkot this evening: New York City health officials scrambled to explain themselves on Thursday in the wake of media reports about bankers who got scarce H1N1 flu vaccines through ...
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• Governments taking over banks

  
  Ajay Shah's blog — Authority: 504
  Jerry Caprio and Ila Patnaik , at two ends of the world, on the same subject. The UK Special Resolution Regime has excellent documentation on the web. There is a lot of talk in India about financial stability, where basic ideas are distorted to defend the status quo. Financial stability is, ...
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• Alex Callinicos v Martin Wolf

  
  LENIN'S TOMB — Authority: 593
  Copyleft of Lenins Tomb
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• Bailout Banks’ Bonuses Could Surpass 2008 Levels

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 569
  As further testament to Washington’s strategic use of your hard-earned cash, Reuters staff wrote today: Eight major banks which were at the front of the line for government bailouts have already set aside $117.6 billion this year to pay employees, almost as much as they paid in all of 2008, a Reuters analysis has ...
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