FXDD Forex Weekly Roundup: Oh what a week!
Checkout this very insightful and interesting article put together by Greg Michalowski from FXDD (one of the brokerage firms that I use) ... , LT Credit, the Sterling currency crisis in the 90s, the tech boom and bust and the other modern day ... out the window. The velocity of money was multiplying at a unsustainable pace. Too bad [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 16:59:16
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83rd Carnival of Money Stories - Election Day Edition!
If this is your first time here, welcome! When you’ve finished reading all the great money stories, I hope you’ll come back, look around and consider subscribing. After standing in that long line at the polls, sit back with a glass of something relaxing and enjoy all the really good reading to be found here [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 06:55:15
83rd Carnival of Money Stories - Election Day Edition!
If this is your first time here, welcome! When you’ve finished reading all the great money stories, I hope you’ll come back, look around and consider subscribing. After standing in that long line at the polls, sit back with a glass of something relaxing and enjoy all the really good reading to be found here [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 16:24:08
Wednesday morning links
TOP STORIES China cuts rates, Fed and others set to follow - Reuters Fed May Cut Rate to 1%, ... the Next Crisis: It’s Credit Cards - NY Times Why the surge in home sales is bad news - MSN Money ... down a third of mortgage applications - Times Online Canada's housing market 'tracking' U.S. boom [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 13:11:00
Time and Pay Day Loans
There are moments when time is not on your side. There are instances when time is the only thing that you don’t have. When this is the case, you feel that there’s no hope for you anymore. Good thing that with pay day loans – Canadian payday loans for instance – you are sure that you will always have time on your side. By availing of pay day loans, you are sure that time will never be an issue – it will never weigh heavy on your shoulders. Let’s examine why. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-14 18:33:20
Business News AOL Canada
... - The deepening recession took another bite out of Canada's labour market in December as the country shed ... . "In short, a bad situation could become dramatically worse" if Washington doesn't go far enough [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 21:25:01
Sell Stock to Pay Down Debt?
I received an email from a reader about whether it was a good idea to sell their non-registered portfolio to pay down debt ... consensus is to not start a non-registered portfolio until all bad debts are paid off. But does that make sense all the time? Here is the readers situation: Credit Card Balance: $20,000 Interest [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 10:30:06
Terence Corcoran: Trade risks in auto bailouts
Will Ottawa and Washington be able to resist a return to the old tradition of auto-industry protectionism and a trade war? By Terence Corcoran On the subject of the U.S. auto bailout, Murray Ross of Pleasant Hill ... in the North American auto sector. So far there are no signs Canadian policymakers have plans to duplicate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 00:30:00
The new rules for financial markets
We must change our international regulatory framework to encourage the prudent management of credit risk By David Dodge Faced with the current and ... for 2010 than that contained in the Bank of Canada’s latest reports.Our international regulatory framework needs to be structured to provide greater incentives for the prudent management of credit ris [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 00:27:00
Folly Compounding in America: the Stuff of Broken Empires, Part 1
Note: This article has been sitting in my computer for nearly a year, beginning about the time that I felt the subprime mortgage disaster was likely to be far more serious than we were then led to believe. So, I am bringing it forward now, at a time when it seems, well, more timely [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 05:24:26
SATURDAY JANUARY 10 & SUNDAY 11, 2009
THIS SITE SUPPORTS ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL POLICE DEPARTMENTS, EMS CREWS, IN ADDITION TO ALL SERVING IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, ... UP FOR SOME NB AREASSnowfall warning in effectEnvironment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for metro ... BRUNSWICK & MAINE BORDER WAIT TIMESALL OF ATLANTIC CANADA STORM WARNINGS:This Site GIVES you the news [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 02:22:00
2008 - IV
October came, and, being the last month of university, I expected a very busy month of assignments. What I got was beyond my anticipation - a lot of work, a lot of rushing, and a lot of headaches. I had to write well over 20,000 words of assignments, one finishing up being 60 pages due on the same day as one that ended up being 50 pages [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 13:09:13
Drama in Real Life: Foreclosure!
Drama in Real Life: Foreclosure! Posted on October 2, 2008 by John Gosselin This article, from GetRichSlowly ... about the housing bubble and the credit crisis and the faltering U.S. economy seem rather abstract to me, as if people were discussing a problem in Canada or Mexico. Or Norway. I've spent the past four [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 18:58:52
Election Neglections: Educational Equity
With the election less than a month away and the key to victory lying in voter turnout and those few voters who still have not yet made up their minds, the time has come to focus on those issues the media and the candidates have ignored that will have an impact on the kind of country we will live in for the next four years [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 03:55:44
Weekly Economic Potpourri November 22, 2008
Every week there are a numerous headlines that are worthy of mentioning but I simply run out of time. Here are some news items from around the globe from this past week.Obama Targets 2.5 Million Jobs With Stimulus Plan President-elect Barack Obama said he aims to save or create 2 [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 22:23:00
How to Deal with Bad Credit Reports as a real estate investor
by Doc Schmyz Today our credit score is everything. Creditors and bankers approve or disapprove loans based on your credit worthiness ... check. Having bad credit can reduce the opportunities of things. You may get approved for a loan ... in today’s world. However, what do you do if you happen to have a bad credit score? If you have bad credit [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 08:53:43
Credit Scores and Their Effect on Canadian Mortgage Rates
Ask any Canadian who has gone through the home buying process what score is more important – last night’s NHL results or their Beacon Score – ... it the Beacon Credit Score, Trans Union has the FICO score and Experian uses the Fair, Isaac Risk ... and they’ll most likely respond, “the Beacon Score of course!”. The reason being that a Beacon [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 17:30:35
The Age of Scarcity
Civilian Death Toll Rises After Second Day of Air Strikesby Hazem Balousha in Gaza City, Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem - The Guardian (UK)Death toll moves above 300. Calls for investigation after seven students at UN college die in missile attacksTo the doctors at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City it was another body on a chaotically busy day [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 13:07:00
Portugal Sustains
"Art has a function of teaching about the human condition. We live in hope, hope is fundamental" - Manoel de OliveiraManoel de Oliveira (photo and quote above) is a living example for the Potuguese people of how to force their way out of the low growth/low per capita income trap into which they have steadily stuck their neck [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 14:35:00
Cyclo-cross, SWF Rescue Attempts Gone Awry, China’s $586 Billion Stimulus Package, and More!
by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias The cyclo-cross illustrates our quickly crashing market Sovereign wealth funds giving up on their rescue ... in takeover and financing activity” – will be the first to leave the track. – Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) – the ambulance chasers of this credit crisis tricycle wreck – seem to be losing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 14:27:16
Global Economic Tremors
Global Economic Tremors - by Stephen LendmanOn October 28, the Financial Times' columnist Martin Wolf wrote: " ... millions of homeowners into foreclosure;(3) a sharp increase in other defaults - credit cards, auto ... of the western world's banking system, the flight to safe assets, the tightening of credit to the real [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 11:40:00
Bill Frey’s radical ideas for how to fix the housing market
Guest blog from BusinessWeek Banking Editor Mara Der Hovanesian: Bill Frey, an avid investor in mortgage securities, ... of Frey’s ideas: 1. Eliminate the 30-year fixed rate loan Frey says that the 30-year mortgage ... , but that are renegotiated every five years. These types of loans are common in Canada and other countries. 2. Set [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 17:23:08
Bill Frey’s radical ideas for how to fix the housing market
Guest blog from BusinessWeek Banking Editor Mara Der Hovanesian: Bill Frey, an avid investor in mortgage securities, ... of Frey’s ideas: 1. Eliminate the 30-year fixed rate loan Frey says that the 30-year mortgage ... , but that are renegotiated every five years. These types of loans are common in Canada and other countries. 2. Set [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 17:23:08
Bill Frey’s radical ideas for how to fix the housing market
Guest blog from BusinessWeek Banking Editor Mara Der Hovanesian: Bill Frey, an avid investor in mortgage securities, ... of Frey’s ideas: 1. Eliminate the 30-year fixed rate loan Frey says that the 30-year mortgage ... , but that are renegotiated every five years. These types of loans are common in Canada and other countries. 2. Set [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 17:23:08
Impact of Credit Crisis on the Energy Industry - Where Are We Now?
I recently looked through news articles to see which energy sectors were being affected by the credit crisis ... related problems. One is reduced access to credit, making new borrowing difficult for nearly every ... of the reason for this price decline is the lack of availability of credit—many of the less credit [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 13:00:54
How Obama Supports Acorn
How Obama Supports Acorn Posted in Corruption, Economy, Elections, Obama, Politics at 8: ... as it seems. Here you seen an article at Canada Free Press that outlines those recent legislative ties ... prime loans forced down their throats, which is a very bad result. If you go to the areas Obama [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 14:59:00
Debt Rattle, October 30 2008: Swamps and Swaps
Lewis Wickes Hine Ethel June 1911. Ethel Shumate has rolled cigarettes in Danville, VA, factory for six months. Says she's 13 years old, but looks much younger. Ilargi: The US is now 'officially' on the edge of a recession, This looks very much like another way of saying the government gave up on trying the cook the books and massage the [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 18:55:47
Why The IMF's Decision To Agree A Lavian Bailout Programme Without Devaluation Is A Mistake
by Edward Hugh: BarceloanThe IMF finally announced it's Latvia "bailout" plan on Friday. The plan involves lending about €1.7 billion ($2.4 billion) ... its economic adjustment plan. The loan, which will be in the form of a 27-month stand-by arrangement ... Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.In return for the loan the IMF have agreed a "strong package of [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 08:46:00
Cara's Commentary & Community Chat, Fri., Oct. 3, 2008, 9:00am ET
With the unwinding of the humungous bank-created credit default swap market, it appears that no major bank is safe, ... . ADDENDUM When I say that the credit ring is broke, I mean that the entire financial system ... , including in testimony to Canada’s securities regulators:As a Free Market Patriot, I believe [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 14:15:38
Why The IMF’s Decision To Agree A Lavian Bailout Programme Without Devaluation Is A Mistake
The IMF finally announced it’s Latvia “bailout” plan on Friday. The plan involves lending about €1.7 billion ($2.4 billion) ... its economic adjustment plan. The loan, which will be in the form of a 27-month stand-by arrangement ... Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. In return for the loan the IMF have agreed a “strong package [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 08:48:58
UK Best Payday Loans
by Jillian Silver This article looks at the way banks exploit customers with NSF and overdraft fees ... loan industry’s position that short-term cash advance loans are significantly less expensive than ... a payday loan. Namely 75% of banks did this. The study concluded that a typical customer would incur fees [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 12:51:10
Pimp My Assets, 2
Blue October 3. Sunday, Bloody Sunday It was a calculated decision. It was a decision made only after exercising due diligence, after conducting a thorough, and painful examination of all available information. It was a decision that began in calculation and ended in the long good-bye [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 06:25:06
How to Deal with Bad Credit Reports as a real estate investor
by Doc Schmyz In today’s world our credit score is everything. Creditors and bankers approve or disapprove loans based on your credit worthiness ... . Having bad credit reduces the opportunities of these things. You may get approved for a loan ... in today’s world. However, what do you do if you happen to have a bad credit score? If you have bad [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 14:42:45
Dirty Little Secret about google adsense
While i wondering around the web i came across this web site. this website listed down all google adsense top paying keywords! then i only realized how come some people can making money real fast on the internet. it is not because they are super duper hardworking, or they are super duper talented. [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 23:05:00
Live Analysis of the Final Presidential Debate
View Poll Alright, we’re moments away from the beginning of the debate. As always, I’ll be watching CNN, who will have a focus group (undecided voters in Ohio) with a tracking rating of how people like what they’re hearing (broken up by men and women) [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 00:58:22
DrumBeat: October 7, 2008
A Gift From the ’70s: Energy Lessons The presidential candidates claim to see America’s energy future, but their competing visions have a certain vintage quality. They’ve revived that classic debate: the hard path versus the soft path. The soft path, as Amory Lovins defined it in the 1970s, is energy conservation and power from the sun, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 13:15:04
"A new world order " for Krzysztof Rybinski
What is and should be the future of global governance? Who should make the key decisions and in what institutional frameworks? The answers to these questions may be approached via a retrospective glance at an epochal moment when they might have seemed far clearer than they do today: the "diamond jubilee" [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 19:03:00
Bankrupt global financial institutions
As many readers know, I chronicle the write-downs of our venerable global financial institutions in my credit crisis timeline ... Receivables and Asset Backed SecuritiesAuto Loan Receivables and Securitized auto Loan ... a reality in the US, the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Spain, South Africa, Germany, Japan, Canada and many others [more...]
Date: 2008-07-09 09:00:01
How Real Estate investors can deal with bad credit reports
by Doc Schmyz Creditors and bankers approve or disapprove loans based on your credit worthiness ... . Having bad credit reduces the opportunities of these things. You may get approved for a loan ... score is very important in today’s world. However, what do you do if you happen to have a bad credit [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 13:04:29
Bailout for Beginners
Some links: 1. The bailout plan.2. Hilzoy, who as always is smarty-smart-smart *and* good at explaining stuff clearly. I bet she's a great professor.3. Pelosi, in the Guardian.4. The Economist explains.Those last two links were sent to me by BritFriend, who as it happens used to work in the financial markets [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 11:30:00
Debt Rattle, October 22 2008: Shelling
Library of Congress Shelling 1865 View from Circular Church, Charleston, South Carolina, after shelling by the Federal Navy. Ilargi: Stocks are plummeting once more all around the world, and if you think that trend will stop anytime soon, then you haven’t been paying attention [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 18:29:54
Transcribe 12-15-08 Sherry Talk Radio
Sherry Talk Radio12-15-2008Transcribed by Liz PattonHello everybody. You’re live. It’s Monday night. If you can hear me, go ahead and somebody give me a heads up. I’m having some technical difficulties. I don’t even have a whole lot to say tonight. Five minutes before I go on air, my whole system goes kaputz [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 01:32:00
* What if corporations have been converting assets into investment portfolios? Then they are now in the business of managing those portfolios rather than in the running of the business they are in.* Statistics are a strange animal. Unlike foxbusiness reported a couple months ago, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 19:49:44
Week in Review #47 (2008-11-23)
Does anybody really think our culture is going to change overnight because of a little $55 trillion CDS problem? The fact is that very few of us even know what a Credit Default Swap is and even fewer understand that the source of the global financial, business and economic crisis is the CDS. I warned [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 14:49:50
Tell Me Why I’m Wrong to be a Pessimist
After watching market action this week, should I be an optimist, or a pessimist? The optimists will tell you that, for the week, the Dow gained 9 ... ? The pessimist will tell you that November was a very bad month, even with the gains of last week ... indication that things will change in the near term. We live in a credit based economy. Since [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 13:14:19
McKinney, Nader debate
Democracy Now! played some of the questions and answers from the last Presidential debate with McCain and Obama, followed by a two minute reply by Green Party nominee Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader The host, Amy Goodman stopped the candidates when they were headed down the way-over-two-minutes path [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 04:33:33
DrumBeat: October 2, 2008
John Michael Greer: Cassandra's View In this setting, the presentations and talk at the conference took on a surreal quality, as though the global civilization we were discussing – the one running out of cheap and easily available fossil fuels – was on some other planet [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 14:01:45
Now It's Official: That Cheery DTCC Data on Credit Default Swaps is Mighty Incomplete
Bloomberg has a good report today explaining why the DTCC report saying the credit default swaps market is only $34 trillion in notional outstanding ... credit-default swaps didn't disclose bets in the section of the more than $47 trillion market ... by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. doesn't include privately negotiated credit-default swaps [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 09:17:44
Confusing Consumption With Investment
People are now waking up to the fact that what that real estate investment guru was pitching at the seminar wasn’t necessarily an "investment": ... credit report Mortgage for people with bad credit Credit card machine to buy Free credit report ... home loan rate refinance Bad credit home improvement loan Bad credit personal loan 1 Home interest [more...]
Date: 2008-06-24 14:10:35
Washington Mutual: Largest Bank Failure In U.S. History
AP | JPMorgan Chase & Co. Inc. came to the rescue of Washington Mutual Inc ... that JPMorgan Chase has taken over a major financial institution crippled by bad bets in the mortgage market ... to write down WaMu's loan portfolio by approximately $31 billion. JPMorgan Chase, which acquired Bear [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 13:55:36
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