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The Same Old Song »
Posted by: Beau7890 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
What's up with the Republicans? Have they no sense that their policies have sent the country hurtling down the road to ruin? Are they ...
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Banking on the Brink »
Posted by: Beau7890 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Comrade Greenspan wants us to seize the economy’s commanding heights.
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O.K., not exactly. What Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman — and a ...Read (319) | Share | Discuss (41) | Read Full Story at nytimes.com
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In Letter, Buffett Accepts Blame and Faults Others »
Posted by: Beau7890 8 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
The renowned investor Warren E. Buffett chided himself and the business world at large in his annual letter to shareholders of his holding company on ...
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The Worst Predictions About 2008 »
Posted by: _kam0_ 10 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
Just about everybody (except me) got wrong-footed by 2008, but some people's mistakes were truly spectacular
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WaMu becomes biggest bank to fail in US history »
Posted by: engineer 1 year, 1 month ago in Business & Finance
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp . seized WaMu on Thursday, and then sold the thrift's banking assets to JPMorgan Chase & Co . for $1.9 billion.
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Central Banks Slashing Rates As Investors Flee »
Posted by: Beau7890 1 year ago in Business & Finance
Central banks around the world are moving to further slash interest rates as they seek to contain the damage from the bursting of the biggest ...
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Nationalisation is most likely way out of US banking mess »
Posted by: DoseASpinoza 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The game is up: within the next few weeks, if not days, the US government will have to step in and nationalise one or more ...
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Banks Refusing To Take Back Foreclosed Properties : NPR »
Posted by: DoseASpinoza 8 months, 1 week ago in News
In some parts of the country, simply walking away isn't so simple — especially if the bank doesn't want your house.
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The Woman Greenspan Silenced »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year ago in Business & Finance
More than a decade ago, a woman you're likely never to have heard of, Brooksley Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission-- a ...
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$700 billion, what a joke, we need to give them $5 trillion! »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 1 month ago in Business & Finance
Treasury Secretary Henry "Hank" Paulson's $700 billion plan to buy devalued assets from financial companies is "a joke'' because it doesn't go far ...
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America's $53 trillion debt problem »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year ago in Business & Finance
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act contains plenty to make lawmakers on the left and right shudder. On the right, it's the apparent abandonment of ...
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Wake Up America - Home Prices ARE Falling »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year ago in Business & Finance
Am I not doing my job? Or is nobody listening? How is it possible, in the midst of the worst credit crisis in history, which ...
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A Wall Street Bailout Wouldn't Help Anyone But Rich Investors »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 1 month ago in Political News
The free market didn't work. People bought when they should have sold, and they need to get spanked. Author Thomas Frank explains why.
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Bankers vs. Economists »
Posted by: bowsnumba1 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Which profession bears more blame for the global credit meltdown and its ensuing gazillion-dollar bailouts: bankers or economists? This isn't a trick question.
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Market News Live: Video - Geithner: Toxic asset plan almost done »
Posted by: SNance 8 months ago in News
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tells Charlie Rose in an interview that the toxic asset plan will provide low-cost government financing to private investors willing to ...
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