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European banks growing bigger
Quick Take - As It Happens —
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Each time the music stops. there are fewer players European banks are emerging from the credit crisis bigger than before, posing more risk to their national economies. BNP Paribas, Barclays and Banco Santander are among at least 353 European lenders that have increased in size since the beginning of 2007. Fifteen ...22 hours ago -
Daniel Hannan: You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Reflections on Value Investing —
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US News & World Report Capital Commerce : I dont normally delve into the politics of the European Parliament, but this video of Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan stripping the bark off British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is worth noting. Many American politicians might be hearing the same criticisms next year ...1 day ago -
Too Big To Fault, Say The Immoralists.
Some of Patrice Ayme's Thoughts —
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NOT YOUR GARDEN VARIETY DEPRESSION. In a nutshell: the present crisis consists in a whole succession of crises imbricated like Russian dolls within each other, when they are not entangled in even more complex ways. Many of these crises are much graver than in those in the 1930s, because they belong to the ...2 days ago -
The best news for the economy in a long time
Jay Hancock's blog —
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The Great Recession may be technically over for the economists -- GDP is rising again, which means the decline in economic output that defines recessions has stopped, at least temporarily. But it wont feel like its over to Americans until the country starts adding jobs again. That hasnt happened yet, but todays jobs ...2 days ago -
Financial Post: Prem Watsa on What Comes Next
Reflections on Value Investing —
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Diane Francis interviews Prem Watsa: [Diane Francis] The markets corrected but is the worst over? [Prem Watsa] 80% of the economy [the private sector] is de-leveraging. 20% is government stimulus. Companies are operating at 65% of capacity or utilization rate. Unemployment is rising. If in ...3 days ago -
2007 Revisited: " Keeps Falling on My Head"
Reflections on Value Investing —
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Sam Zells timeless 2007 Christmas Card. Video Buy low . Sell high .3 days ago -
The Economy: Front and Center
The Confluence —
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The news is full of economics these days. The first thing on the agenda is and should be jobs. The Hill has the headline which continues to pit providing a fiscal boost to the labor markets with the federal deficit. Again, I rely on the idea of a cyclical deficit and automatic stabilizers. When the labor ...3 days ago -
Vanity Fair on Goldman Sachs
City Lakes Real Estate Blog —
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Recessions Happen, Crashes Have CausesHere are my thoughts/reactions after reading "The Bank Job: Goldmans Elite on the Crisis and Bonus Rage," by Bethany McLean in the January, 2010 issue of Vanity Fair (its online now).That is, once I gargled to get the bad taste out of my mouth.One. If your agenda is to rebut the ...3 days ago -
A Generation’s Loyalty May Be at Stake
NDN blogs —
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As Congress returns from its holiday vacation, it and President Barack Obama need to address a number of challenges facing the country from health care reform to jobs and what strategy to pursue in Afghanistan. How the Democratic leadership deals with these issues may well determine the future loyalty of an entire ...4 days ago -
Get ready to hear double dip recession talk
Jay Hancock's blog —
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Now that the economy has technically begun growing again, youre going to hear lots of talk about sinking back into a recession. We could be in the middle of "double dip" recessions, according to the jargon, or a "W-shaped" recovery (named for the shape of economic growth traced on a graph).For one thing, theres a ...4 days ago -
For Millennials, It’s the Economy Stupid
NDN blogs —
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This month’s off year elections sent one message to Washington that has been heard loud and clear. Voters expect Congress to focus on the economy, especially employment, and take decisive and affirmative steps to deal with both the causes and ravages of the greatest economic downturn in the U.S. since the Great ...5 days ago -
Dubai: Getting Pinked
BAGnewsNotes —
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In 2007, Magnum photographer Martin Parr was drawn to Dubai as an example of the raging excess of wealth and world economics -- just before the rich nearly everywhere toned it down. Today, as the financial status of this hedonistic over-engineered play world teeters at the edge of financial collapse, becoming ...6 days ago -
The New York Times Sunday Cover: Food Stamps For All!
Mediaite —
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The New York Times delivered a sobering message on Sunday with a lead story that read “Food Stamp Use Soars Across U.S., and Stigma Fades.” We’re all hurting, the paper seemed to say, as a giant United States infographic detailing the change in number of people who receive food stamps over the past two years ...1 week ago -
Working on Work
The Confluence —
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The LA Times has an article up today about a multibillion-dollar jobs bill in the works in Congress. Senators Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) are working on the bill in the Senate. It’s not clear from this article who has the ball in the House, but it appears that there’s interest in ...1 week ago -
The silver lining: “Amid Higher Unemployment, Fewer Workplace Injuries”
Collateral Damage —
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One more reason I love the Wall Street Journal. The Labor Department’s report of occupational injuries and illnesses that required days away from work mimicked the shifts the recession caused in the labor market in 2008. Hard-hit sectors, such as construction and retail, reported fewer injury and illness ...1 week ago -
The end of the end of the Great Recession
Collateral Damage —
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – Mencken Remember all that robust economic activity we heard so much about last month? The stuff about the economy expanding at 3.5% for the third quarter of this year and “officially” marking an ...1 week ago -
How to get your mojo back during the Great Recession
Cube Rules —
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Let’s face it: many of us are getting beat down in the midst of the Great Recession. Whether we’ve been laid off once — or twice — or just have to continue working in jobs we don’t like, those events naturally get us off our game. There is that tipping point where we think everything will be fine and then it ...1 week ago -
Shocking Graphic of U.S. Unemployment
Diggings —
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Latoya Egwuekwe has posted an excellent video of the nation’s rising unemployment between January ‘07 and September ‘09. The video shows the color coded unemployment rate for every county in the U.S. in that span, and the transformation from 4.6% unemployment in 2007 to the start of the recession in 2008 and ...1 week ago -
Why is Obama Championing Bush’s Financial Wrecking Crew?
New Deal 2.0 —
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Bill Black lays out a near-term list of financial priorities. Item #1: Team Obama must be purged of the ‘Wrecking Crew’ who drove the economy over a cliff. Tom Frank’s book, The Wrecking Crew explains how the Bush administration destroyed effective government and damaged our social fabric and our economy. ...1 week ago -
When Will It End?
The Hire Sense —
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The Great Recession roars on during this holiday season. Our company is focused on sales hiring, both assessing candidates for our customers and running full recruiting processes. The hiring outlook is of great importance to us and a topic I try to track closely. That being said, this abcnews.com article ...1 week ago
