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• What We Do

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 126
  True story – it was December 14 in Paris almost ten years ago, cold and dark at dawn, followed by heavy rain, and I was bleary-eyed from staying up all night watching CNN-International in the hotel room. Somewhere in the middle of the night there was Al Gore on the screen, conceding the presidential election to ...
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• Survey Suggests U.S. Adults Suffer From Financially Illiteracy

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 132
  Back in April 2008 I wrote about how a Fed survey showed U.S. high school seniors and college students are struggling when it comes to financial literacy. Now, another survey suggests this applies to the adult population in the United States as well. From Gail Buckner, writing on the FOX Business website Monday: ...
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• Wall Streets Bonus Baby Steps

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 445
  After U.S taxpayers sacrificed billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street, the rescued financial institutions promised to cut executive bonuses and extravagant business expenses. However, data shows that many of the same companies that we bailed out earlier in the year, are planning to give out hefty bonuses in ...
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• FINRA Warns Investing Public of Green Energy Investment Scams

  
  Investing Blog — Authority: 126
  FINRA Warns Investing Public of Green Energy Investment ScamsWASHINGTON—-The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued an Investor Alert today warning investors to be wary of green energy investments that promise large gains from investing in companies purportedly involved in developing or producing ...
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• ALERT: Stock market will tread water in 2010

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 158
  Chicago Sun Times Article Dated December 27th, 2009: Article Entitled: STOCK MARKET WILL TREAD WATER IN 2010: Important Excerpt from this article… …The New York Times reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission and the security industry’s in-house cop, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, are ...
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• Federal Reserve Board Urged to Ban Mortgage Kickbacks that Cost Homeowners Billions

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 510
  As the year ends with a spotlight on pending health and financial reforms in Congress, the Federal Reserve closed its comment period for mortgage rules that could save families billions of dollars. In a detailed comment letter , a Washington organization dedicated to eliminating abusive financial practices recommends ...
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• December 26, 2009

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 128
  December 26, Boxing Day is December 26, the day after Christmas, and is celebrated in Great Britain and in most areas settled by the English (the U.S. is the major exception), including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Despite its name, Boxing Day, which is celebrated on December 26 in Great Britain, has nothing ...
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• Goldman Begins Balancing Risks and Rewards

  
  Bulletproof — Authority: 128
  When Goldman Sachs announced earlier this month that its 30-member Management Committee won’t receive cash bonuses for 2009 , the global investment bank once again demonstrated its leadership on one of the most contentious issues of the year – executive compensation. As a key part of the bank’s overall plan, ...
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• SEC Chair on the Hot Seat? Finra Scandal Could Put Her There

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 653
  Filed under: Scandals Veteran Bloomberg reporter Susan Antilla wonders in her latest column whether Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Mary Schapiro is the right person to have at the helm of the SEC. Back in 2006, Schapiro was the head of the National Association of Securities Dealers when the ...
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• The Senates Bill: Should It Pass?

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 497
  Rising health care costs are crippling the economy, squeezing middle class families budgets, and making health care unattainable for a growing number of Americans. More than 14,000 people lose their coverage every day . We know that as the number of unemployed goes up, the number of uninsured goes up as well. Most of ...
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• Some Thoughts on People Management

  
  Soropa Blog — Authority: 131
  A prosperous business depends to a great extent on good people management skills. You can succeed in learning these techniques. Having a spontaneous skill for getting along with people and forming relationships may be an advantage, but you can do many things to facilitate the process. Forging relationships: ...
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• Defining Transparency Down

  
  Corrente — Authority: 639
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post While the different players and events in last years financial crisis seem somewhat blurred now that some time as passed, the collapse of Washington Mutual (WaMu) was the biggest bank failure in American history at the time. It was ...
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• Obamacare and the Facade of Regulation

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 477
  The French and Japanese health care systems do not exclude private industry.They are not socialist in any sense of the word. Each consists of a regulatory apparatus that is the instrument for carrying out national policy–in the case of health,ensuring a universal system for all the country’s citizens..The ...
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• Those "Other" Lenders

  
  Stock Chartist — Authority: 117
  While were all sitting around waiting for the wind to pick up (if you dont know what Im referring to you didnt read yesterdays posting) you might want to take a look at a little corner of the financial world, some of the companies on the Credit Services Industry Group. If we were on Wall Streets sell-side (those are ...
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• Government vows to strengthen Switzerland’s financial centre

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 504
  Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss government says it will assume a greater role in creating the appropriate conditions for the country’s financial institutions to continue their leading position in global finance. The government recognizes the importance that Switzerland’s financial centre plays in ...
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• 2010 Forecast: Clouds And A 100 Percent Chance Of Algorithms

  
  The Online Investing AI Blog — Authority: 128
  Swami Stream @ Flickr Is the first decade of the 21st century really almost over? Wasn’t it just yesterday that we prepared for the collapse of society because of the Y2K bug? Wasn’t it just yesterday that we laughed off the Mayan 2012 prophecies because they were so far in the future? Well, the new year and ...
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• House greenlights creation of consumer credit watchdog agency

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 695
  Filed under: Banks , Borrowing , Credit cards Its not law yet, but its come a long way. On Friday, Dec. 11, the House of Representatives passed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009, which includes a provision for creating a new agency aimed at protecting ordinary Americans from predatory ...
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• Debt Going Down Because Households are Defaulting

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 486
  Growth requires finance. Capital needs to be raised and allocated. Then, earnings must be distributed and invested. And, of course, consumers want credit too. One sector that is growing particularly fast in the emerging markets is...you guessed it...finance. You could say that the thing that emerging markets most ...
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• Having wrought recession, banks resist reform

  
  The Platform — Authority: 569
  R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch You would think that an industry that just 15 months ago nearly cratered the world economy might be a little apologetic. You would think that, having been bailed out and newly enriched by taxpayers’ money, the industry might be humbled…
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• Childers Must Hope Populist Vote Helps

  
  Majority In Mississippi — Authority: 136
  Last Friday, the House passed a financial overhaul bill that “creates a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), imposes new curbs on the multitrillion-dollar derivatives market and sets up a new system for dissolving failing financial firms.” Simply put, this was a huge financial overhaul that the ...
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