The U.S. Dollar: A Federal Reserve Thingy

by The Mogambo Guru The front of a recent issue of Barron's asks, "Are Treasury Bonds Safe? ... , "This means that anybody who is buying any debt - when the central banks of the world are creating more and more money and credit at such astronomical rates - is a real moron, or lunatic, or both [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 21:29:29

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Fixed Mortgage Rate

Fixed Mortgage Rate January 17th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed Mortgage Loan Video Many people who are looking to buy a home consider ... a mortgage hanging around their neck forever but with home buyers entering the market later ... to be true. Loans agreed with a 15 year fixed mortgage keep the same interest rate throughout [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:30:19

Kicking Off the Panic of 2009

“Sir, there are no seats left. You’re going to have to stand in the back.” I was only 10 minutes late, but the conference hall was packed. Every seat was taken. The walls were lined with people. At that point, I knew without a doubt, there was a lot more downside left in real estate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:47:37

at the Apple Macworld keynote… Update: Apple marketing exec Phil Schiller just announced at Macworld that starting immediately, ... of pop songs at $1.99 to your cell phone, I’d imagine. For the moment, the iTunes store ... writes Kvaal. Specifically, Ciena is a long-term winner in gear that lets phone companies move [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:02:36

Bad bank Big risk

Constructing a Bad Bank to solve the Credit Crunch problem is too difficult in the current volatile situation ... all round the world. Some people think it is a relatively simple matter. They argue that too many bad loans are holding back the banks from lending more money. So why not, they argue, shunt all the bad loans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 09:50:50

What Can You Buy With 50 Billion Zimbabwe Dollars?

The inflationary horror of creating excess money and credit is well known, and is superbly illustrated by Zimbabwe, ... s government go far, far beyond mere monetary ones, making a bad situation much, much worse. I bring ... what always happens when a government creates too much money and credit, which is that the currency [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:21:37

Happiness interview with Nina Smith.

During my study of happiness, I’ve noticed that I often learn more from one person’s highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal principles or cite up-to-date studies. So from time to time, I post short interviews with interesting people about their insights on happiness [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:12:44

What The Rise And Fall In Housing Has Done

The Ventura County Star reports from California. “Thousands of Ventura County residents were pushed out of their homes last year, ... a year ago because they see the price slide continuing and ‘want to get out before it’s really bad,’ ... with programs from some of the major lenders and loan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:16:59

The Endgame

The Endgame by John Mauldin January 17, 2009 • Employment Numbers Are Worse Than Posted • Aye, Captain, I’m Giving Her All I’ve Got! • Problem #1: Deflation • Problem #2: Pushing on a String • The Muddle Through Middle • Conversations With John Deflation? Stimulus? Deleveraging? Recession? A soft depression? A return to a bull market? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 02:04:12

Forecasting The Current Recession

We all know that the current economic conditions are unlike anything we have ever seen before ... in a November 2007 report, ECRI explained that "the leading indexes are not yet in a recessionary configuration ... contraction looks set to roll on. "The bad news is that the recession is going to continue [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:23:03

50 Ways to Budget Travel and Save Money on Vacations

Wouldn’t you want to travel more often without breaking the bank? What if I told you that instead of planning one family trip a year, you can go twice with the same budget? If you are at all interested, read on to find out how you can do simple things to save money next time you go on vacation! Airfares [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:00:17

What John Kenneth Galbraith Would Have Said About the Credit Crunch

John Kenneth Galbraith, renowned economist and author of the bestselling The Great Crash, 1929, died in 2006, and so he never saw the crash of 2008 ... with intelligence. We have a tendency to think that people who have made a lot of money must be intelligent, and vice-versa. Surely people who can understand CDOs must be blindingly brilliant and [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 11:53:54

Fixing Bad Credit

Fixing Bad Credit With the current economy situation many people have bad credit due to losing jobs, poor money management and unforeseen medical expenses. We all know having bad credit makes ... college funds intact. Legally Fix Your Bad Credit Now you can help take your stress away from bad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 00:40:11

Fazzari on Keynesian Economics

Steve Fazzari, of Washington University in St. Louis, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Keynesian economics. Fazzari talks about the paradox of thrift, makes the case for a government stimulus plan, and weighs the empirical evidence for a Keynesian worldview. Play Time: 1:05:53 How do I listen to a podcast? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 11:29:25

Foreclosed HomeDiscover The Truth About Foreclosed Homes

Foreclosed houses are houses that have been closed by an individual or a group of individuals before another person owns them. Such situations arise when mortgagers either dont bother to take their house back or are unable to release it because of financial adversities [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 12:15:32

The Top Franchise Trends For 2009

Two words will be dominating the franchise landscape for 2009: cautious optimism ... credit score, and low personal debt, will increase the chances of getting a franchise loan.  More tips ... entrepreneurial ventures. Franchise Loan Availability The financial institutions are still going through [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 07:30:34

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18Jan09“As the Arabs see the Jews”,His Majesty King Abdullah,The American Magazine,November, 1947 By mindspring Categories: Palestine  http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/kabd_eng.html I am especially delighted to address an American audience, for the tragic problem of Palestine will never be solved without American understanding, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 02:38:54

Bob Casey Is Either a Liar or a Thickwit.

Tony Auth PA Senator Bob Casey’s response: Ooops, Lenny Small did it again… Well, it turned out that the original $350 billion in bailout funds weren’t used for loans and extending credit… earlier this month, shortly after the bailout was enacted, The Times’s Mark Landler [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:07:00

Media & Politics

Media & Politics 16-Jan-09 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Outgoing CIA director defends detainee interrogation program (McClatchy) LANGLEY, Va. — Outgoing CIA Director Michael Hayden vigorously defended on Thursday the agency’s use of secret prisons and coercive interrogation methods on suspected al Qaida terrorists, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:21:21

President Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People

Dec. 8, 2008: President George W. Bush kisses one of the children attending the Children’s Holiday Reception and Performance with first lady Laura Bush in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. The reception is for children whose parents are serving in the military and cannot be with them for the Christmas holiday [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:47:09

How To Avoid Falling Into The Foreclosure Crisis

Foreclosures set yet another record this month, with the highest foreclosure rate on record ... . Over 860,000 home owners lost their houses to foreclosure in 2007. This amounts to one out of every 50 ... with home owners. The system is not working. But, there are some ways home owners can get banks to work [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:42:46

Debt forces shoppers to rein in their spending after Christmas last hurrah

The crisis facing the British high street was laid bare yesterday by results from quoted retailers which confirmed that margins are being squeezed ... was the last hurrah for consumers as December's credit card bills force them to confront their debts against [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:01:00

Deflation, Deleveraging, and the Stimulus Effect

Forecast 2009: Deflation and Recession January 10, 2009 By John Mauldin Where are we headed in 2009? We will explore that in detail over the next few issues of Thoughts from the Frontline, but today we will start with some of the larger forces which will have a major impact on the economies of the world, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 12:32:28

DrumBeat: January 14, 2009

Obama energy goal hard to meet: Bodman WASHINGTON (Reuters) ... prices, but this would not affect its $2.3 billion credit facility, the independent oil and gas ... (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell after a U.S. government report showed that stockpiles climbed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:55:13

Dress Your Dreams With Provident Loans UK

One can easily draw money to purchase a home or an automobile ... available to borrowers who have a bad credit history. They are capable of providing them loans ... of interest • Available for people with bad credit history • Helps improve credit score With an access [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 08:21:46

Nothing Down, Nothing Forever

The Missoulian reports from Montana. “Craig Siphers had a notion that the run on real estate in the Bitterroot Valley might be slowing during the summer of 2006. But the longtime real estate agent with Hamilton’s Exit Realty couldn’t have predicted then just how far it would fall [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 19:20:23

Where To Find The Best Rates For Home And Auto Insurance?

As part of a new feature called Ask the M-Network, a reader submitted a question asking about where to find the best rates for home and auto insurance.  The question was from Steve, and he wrote: I’ll be the first to ask a question. Can you recommend a good site on the internet to have my current insurance: home and auto evaluated [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:02:08

Financial Forecast for 2009, Considering Resource Limitations

In this post, I consider some major issues contributing to our current financial problems, before making a financial forecast for 2009. These are 1 ... from the bottom: Layer 1. Household Debt (Mortgages, auto loans, credit card debt, student loans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:10:32

How To Bag 75% Gains By The Summer

HIDDEN VALUE Dear Value Seeker, It could almost be comical… if our financial futures were not at stake ... necessary to ensure stability and the normalization of credit markets. A continuing barrier [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:39

Using Eminent Domain To Acquire Mortgages Would Be Reckless And Dangerous

Just when I think that the bailout plans couldn’t get any wackier, ... is and has been the loan servicer and that servicer’s responsibility to its investors. So many loans ... the fair market value would be about 30-50 percent of the current loan value. NCRC argues, “ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:01:57

Bad bank Big risk and Bad Credit Home Loan

Ok, so maybe bad credit home finance is fewer akin. It originates at about the same time. I am eager to snoop to that wonderful opus again ... an unfinished home, you can keep your monthly bad esteem home credit payment low and also sink [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 11:37:00

Stop the War!!!

If every one of you read back all my previous posts especially about my part-time job, ... and kind of having few bad dreams since the day I was disturbed by a stupid person… and this caused [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 11:24:03

Palin: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?

Palin: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's interview for a forthcoming documentary about the way in which she was covered during her bid for the vice presidency in 2008 has once again catapulted her into the middle of the national political conversation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 18:25:00

Friday’s Single-Issue Classic Countdown - Part 1

This is a project I’ve been meaning to get to for a while in this space ... . I have to give credit where it’s due– this was actually instigated, sort of, by my old friend Kurt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:06:50

Bad Credit Financing For You

Are you trying to determine what bad credit finance options that are available to you? You need a new automobile, but you are unsure of who will finance it due to your bad credit? There is no need to be too concerned about financing if you have bad credit. There are several [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 13:30:30

My 2008 Discretionary Spending: Progress and Challenges

For nearly three years, I’ve chronicled my adventures as I learn about money management ... ) This number isn’t as bad as it seems. It includes two Decemberists concerts for me and Kris, and it also [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 13:00:06

Compare Washington Homeowners Insurance Quotes to Save Money on Your WA Home Insurance Cost

Compare Washington Homeowners Insurance Quotes to Save Money on Your WA Home Insurance Cost Posted by Dark Spider at January 16, ... in a matter of minutes. The bad thing about this process is that you will have to fill your own information [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:07:36

Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is by Natalie Pace

... , underwater on her home, behind on her credit card payments, and in a bad spot. However, rather than ... when her primary concerns were credit card bills and the mortgage payment. In the mid-90’s, Natalie Pace [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:48:25

George W. Bush's Legacy

As a blog titled The Next Right, we have not featured much discussion of George W. Bush ... choices between two or more bad alternatives. The biggest fork in the road was Iraq. Here, I think [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 05:35:31

International Luxury Real Estate News Roundup

Global Downturn Dooms Prestige Construction Projects, ... , reports the Vietnam net.  A combination of falling local demand, lack of credit and a big drop [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 11:24:02

Bad Credit Car Loans No Money Down

Can you get a bad credit car loan with no money down? There is no solid answer. Having no money down does not mean you cannot get a bad credit car loan, but it does not make ... description of each, and discuss the prospects of buying a car with no money down. Good Bad Credit Good [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 18:21:51

Lost for words

If my conversations at the school gate are any guide, ... or the evil Dr X. It is already bad enough that you can only buy Darth Vader light sabres [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 17:31:48

Reuters Article - Where the US bailout money has gone - includes some of it

FACTBOX: Where has the U.S. bailout money gone? Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:39am ESThttp://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUKTRE50F1H720090116(Reuters) ... and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp to backstop $118 billion in bad assets held by the bank, which [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 19:37:30

Wag the Blog: The Geithner Dilemma

Wag the Blog: The Geithner DilemmaDoes Timothy Geithner's issue with back taxes disqualify him from serving as treasury secretary? ( ... failure to pay taxes is a legitimate issue to raise in connection with his future role [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:30:23

Circuit City to shut down 567 remaining US stores and cut more jobs

Circuit City to close 567 remaining US stores and cut more jobs: Bankrupt Circuit City Stores Inc ... its debt, but the hobbled credit market and consumer worries proved insurmountable. Negotiations [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:35:17

Bad Credit Loans & Debt Consolidation

By Vernon DeFlanders If you're buying your first home, bad credit loan consultants have access to the best home loans on the market ... by availing of a bad credit home loan is a major step towards credit repair. Moreover, if you can keep ... . This dream is not even out of reach for people with bad credit histories and they offer specially [more...]

Date: 2008-07-06 19:02:51

Live in Rest with Real Estate Loans

by katie George You are looking for a nice home to live in rest but what is worrying you is the limited budget ... loans can be accessed by everyone. Thus both good and bad credit holders are welcomed here ... financial assistance for buying home, a bad credit holder can also improve his adverse credit score [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 19:07:57

Selecting Best Homes in Los Angeles

by J. Kim Nowadays there are plenty of sites online that offer advice and information about what to do when buying a home ... as if their credit is bad or they have no credit whatsoever. Certainly the more loans and credit cards a person ... The Right Mortgage With the introduction of instant refinancing there are times now where [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 01:54:17

Why would anyone buy a home today?

From MarketWatch: Home buyers advised to look before they leap Fox-Pitt Kelton home-builder analyst Robert Stevenson said Wednesday he thinks this year will turn out to be “a bad time to buy a home” as the U.S. economy loses more jobs ... or no down payment and shaky credit scores are long gone. For buyers, the big fear is purchasing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 18:21:09

Maneuvering through the Confusing Field of Legal Credit Repair

Credit repair is an important issue for many people, if bad or inaccurate credit is keeping them from buying the home or car of their dreams ... are guilty of adding to the problems by misleading clients in credit repair that is unethical or even illegal. If you follow the advice of a less than reputable credit repair organization [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 19:47:00

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