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• What Obama, Pelosi, Reid, & the Republicans Should Resolve for 2010

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 790
  Senate passage of a landmark health bill helped Democrats end 2009 on a note of triumph. They are acting at least somewhat like an organized political party, Will Rogers famous quip notwithstanding, and President Obama is on track to avoid Bill Clintons fate of failing to deliver on a major campaign pledge.   ...
  16 hours ago

• Serious Money: Dubai Vaporizes $48 Trillion

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: International markets , Bad news , Rants and raves , Middle East , Scandals , Economic data , Politics , Serious Money , Recession , Financial Crisis Best wishes to all and, next to world peace among people, we should hope for the same among world markets. I have let some time pass before ...
  1 day ago

• Bank Executives to Testify Before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: Politics , Financial Crisis Is this the first time youve heard about the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission ? Probably. It seems that Treasury Secretary Geithner organized the commission to investigate what went wrong during the financial crisis of 2008! Thats right 2008! Can you imagine -- the ...
  2 days ago

• Lie #9: The U.S. Dollar Is Dead

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: Financial Crisis Monetary neurotics, led by the polite, appealing and economically brain-damaged Ron Paul, believe the U.S. dollar is dead because of our growing debt and the Fed running the printing presses, which must lead to inflation, which, in turn, will kill the dollar. Recent falls in the ...
  2 days ago

• Top Picks for 2010: Annaly Mortgage (NLY)

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: Newsletters , Stocks to Buy , Housing , Recession , Financial Crisis , Annaly Capital Management (NLY) , best stocks for 2010 This post is part of a special report, Top Picks for 2010, the 27th annual survey in which TheStockAdvisors.com asks the nations leading advisors for their single ...
  2 days ago

• Savings Rate Increases: Americans Saving More In Weak Economy

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  The recession has caused a seismic shift in the consumer culture, converting die-hard spenders into savers. A growing number of people, either smarting from a job loss or spooked by the financial crises of others, are scrambling to get out of debt, establish emergency funds, and add to their retirement and savings ...
  2 days ago

• "…I think it’s fair to say that since 1980, and it really started in the seventies, but it really..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “…I think it’s fair to say that since 1980, and it really started in the seventies, but it really began in 1980, we created a whole new form of capitalism. I call it a mutant viral form of capitalism; predatory capitalism, and its main basis is that business should make profits regardless of the social / ...
  3 days ago

• Its $6 Million Each for Fannie and Freddie Chief Executives

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: Management , Politics , Headline news , Housing , Financial Crisis Tis the season to be greedy! Fannie Mae ( FNM ) CEO, Michael Williams, and Freddie Mac ( FRE ) CEO, Charles Halderman, will each receive $6 million in total compensation for 2009 ! How would you like to work for a company that ...
  3 days ago

• Lie #2: New Accounting Rules Show Banks Are All Right

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: Bad news , Financial Crisis Earlier in the year, U.S. lawmakers and financial companies pressured the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) into changing its rules to help out the banks. "Changes to fair-value, or mark-to-market accounting ... allow companies to use significant judgment in ...
  3 days ago

• Lie #1: The Stress Tests Provided Transparency in the Banks

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: Bad news , Financial Crisis "The effect of this capital assessment will be to help replace uncertainty with transparency. ... We chose a strategy to lift the fog of uncertainty over bank balance sheets and to help ensure that the major banks, individually and collectively, had the capital to ...
  3 days ago

• 2009s Biggest Wall Street Lies

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: Bad news , China , Black Friday , Palm Inc (PALM) , Smartphones , Housing , Federal Reserve , Recession , Financial Crisis The market staged an impressive rally this year, but it was predicated on some very big lies, as opposed to solid fundamentals or the beginnings of a real recovery in the ...
  3 days ago

• "Why should Iceland suddenly be so seemingly essential to global finance? Or: Why do giant countries..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “Why should Iceland suddenly be so seemingly essential to global finance? Or: Why do giant countries that invented modern banking suddenly need Icelandic banks to stand between their depositors and their borrowers—to decide who gets capital and who does not? And: If Icelanders have this incredible natural gift for ...
  3 days ago

• Hawaii needs your help!

  
  Gadling — Authority: 699
  Filed under: North America , United States Hawaii needs $1.23 billion and could use your help. Governor Linda Lingle is calling it a " fiscal crisis " and says it wont be fixed with budget cuts alone. Essentially, the fiftieth state wants everyone else to chip in. This years budget gap is $721 million, which will ...
  5 days ago

• Geithner: We Are on the Road to Recovery, but in the Slow Lane

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 766
  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told National Public Radio in an interview Tuesday that he strongly believes we are on the road to recovery , but it wont be fast. He said "we were in a very deep hole . . . Its going to take a long time to repair the damage done to confidence." But he sees people spending more and ...
  6 days ago

• "How did the shareholders let them get away with this? They were sitting on the gravy train too,..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “How did the shareholders let them get away with this? They were sitting on the gravy train too, enjoying the views from the observation car. How did the directors let it happen? Innumeracy, and inability to understand accounts that have become misleading to the point of treachery. How depressing the shame and folly ...
  1 week ago

• "What were the sources of this imaginary wealth? First, spreads on credit that took no account of..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “What were the sources of this imaginary wealth? First, spreads on credit that took no account of default probabilities (bankers have been doing this for centuries, but not on this scale). Second, unrealised mark-to-market profits on the trading book, especially in illiquid instruments. Third, profits conjured up by ...
  1 week ago

• "The Washington Post is reporting that the federal government has quietly decided to exempt Citigroup..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “The Washington Post is reporting that the federal government has quietly decided to exempt Citigroup from a large future tax bill in allowing it to exit the TARP program. This is a backdoor bailout worth billions and is an outrage that demonstrates the lengths to which government will go to gift these organizations ...
  1 week ago

• Reinsurers to Take it on the Chin: Rates Likely to Fall 9% in January

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 766
  The Jan. 1, 2010, reinsurance renewal is approaching fast, but a quiet year for catastrophe losses is causing the annual ritual to proceed slowly. Insurers and reinsurers are still dancing around an agreement on next years rates, and an insider at a major reinsurance intermediary tells me that the process could extend ...
  1 week ago

• "Perhaps A.I.G.’s employees would also be judged not guilty. But we would like to see the record to..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “ Perhaps A.I.G.’s employees would also be judged not guilty. But we would like to see the record to find out. As fraud investigators, we would like to examine the trading patterns of A.I.G.’s financial products division, and its communications with Goldman Sachs and other bank counterparties who benefited from ...
  1 week ago

• "City people have always been paid well relative to others, but megabonuses are quite new. From my..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “ City people have always been paid well relative to others, but megabonuses are quite new. From my own experience, in the mid-1990s no more than four or five employees of Barclays’ then investment bank were paid more than £1m, and no one got near £2m. Around the turn of the millennium across the market things ...
  1 week ago

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