A New Carry Trade Currency?

A bias to buy dollars remains…The Fed was warned as far back as 1999! Fujii gets “the memo”! A ton o’ data all around the globe this week! And Now… Today’s Pfennig! Good day… And a Marvelous Monday to you! My weekend turned out to be quite grand, as all the things I said that would make it special came to pass! My Cardinals clinched their division. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 19:07:49

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No surprise here; FBI and likely other federal agencies abuse the use of National Security Letters. Support the JUSTICE Act unless the Republicans can do better.

I have been railing against the Patriot Act (which is anything but) since its passage and I physically protested same back when AG Ashcroft visited Salt Lake City in circa 2003. Numerous provisions of that Act signed into law by the SOB (Son Of a Bush) were and remain egregious. The Patriot Act assailed our rights on so many fronts, not the least of which was broadening the use of National Security Letters (NSL). [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 19:56:34

Words from the (Investment) Wise (Sept. 27, 2009)

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 14:33:29

ScamBuste 286

NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT VIA ATM CARD This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract/inheritance file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your contract payment. Secondly, you are hereby advised to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 08:54:51

Bad credit loans: civilizing bad debt condition

Credit runs in to a lives and has outcome on roughly each preference we make. Bad credit runs in a credit focus and has goods on each loan we borrow. A recent consult has shown that a single fifth of a adult race cannot validate for unchanging loans. For such a outrageous loan borrowing race there have been specific loan programmes called bad credit loans. With bad credit loans we can steal loan amounts of a likes of 5000-75,000. Repayment tenure will change from 5-25 years. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 15:22:42

Discover How To Make The Best Deals With Original Creditors

By Michael Redbourn There are lots of articles around that explain how to talk or not talk to debt collectors and many people think that they should handle negotiations with the original creditor in the same way, and that's absolutely wrong. The original lender doesn't have to help you at all, but if you handle the negotiations in the right way you might save yourself around 45% of your total debt, and you might get the very best comment on your credit report too. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 01:02:09

Re-default nation

The big question looming over the push to rewrite the home loans of people struggling to make payments is whether or not such mortgage ... % of all first mortgages in the U.S. Dugan called the results, part of his agency's new Mortgage Metrics report ... numbers to have since historically we haven't—and problem solving often starts with data collection [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 17:35:26

Monday Report

This was one of those weekends where I unexpectedly came across a lot of different things I hadn't seen before ... , is an illustrated collection of interviews with fifty or so people from the worlds of art, fashion, and media ... a peek at the book (well actually looked at every page). So I can now report that this is far [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 05:01:00

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009)

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 07:51:48

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009)

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 07:51:48

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/24/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series. Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database (SADB) .NET Services: Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps, Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 21:52:00

Nifty regains 5,000 mark

Data showing a surge in growth in the core sector boosted domestic bourses with the 50-unit S&P CNX Nifty settling above the psychological 5,000 level. The BSE 30-share Sensex rose 159.91 points or 0.96%, off close to 55 points from the day's high and up close to 50 points from the day's low. Index heavyweights Reliance Industries and ICICI Bank led the rally which was a part of a rally in most Asian stocks. IT, banking and healthcare stocks rose. But realty stocks reversed early gains. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 15:25:00

DrumBeat: December 4, 2008

The Peak Oil Crisis: July 2008 – A Month To Remember Most students of the subject at first thought that world oil production was going to peak for ... Lynch & Co. said in a report today. U.S. fuel demand during the four weeks ended Nov. 28 was down 6.2 percent from a year earlier, an Energy Department report showed yesterday. “We’ve got the U.S [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 14:07:31

A Ph.D. In Loss

A report from Oregon Public Radio. “In the last several years high-end resort communities have sprung up across the West. But those destination resorts are suffering big time under the housing slump and credit crunch ... Boomers were looking for vacation homes. Getting credit was easy and there was a huge rush in real [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 21:21:40

Press Under Attack in Nepal

Even after the restoration of democracy in Nepal, the country’s press has so far been unable to function without threat and intimidation ... , however, it's hardly been a mystery; Maoists have either taken credit or been found responsible ... to be a report published in Nepali language fortnightly magazine Himal, about the activities of Maoist [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 13:03:09

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/2/2009

In tonight’s news: Israel is poised to send ground troops into Gaza.A Muslim family was removed from a plane before takeoff, and is being compensated by the airline for the error. CAIR is in high dudgeon about the incident.Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway — is that a message for President-eject Bush? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 04:42:00

How to Set New Year’s Financial Resolutions You Can Keep

(source) Every year it’s the same old story. You start with the best of intentions but somehow never manage to fulfill your New Year’s ... months. Maintaining good credit is an important foundation for achieving the rest of your financial goals. So start by finding out where you currently stand with a credit report from CreditReport.com [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 19:55:16

How to Set New Year’s Financial Resolutions You Can Keep

(source) Every year it’s the same old story. You start with the best of intentions but somehow never manage to fulfill your New Year’s ... months. Maintaining good credit is an important foundation for achieving the rest of your financial goals. So start by finding out where you currently stand with a credit report from CreditReport.com [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 19:55:16

Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

-- Christopher Knight reports that the Museum of Contemporary Art board is prepared to formally approach the Los Angeles County Museum of Art about a merger, which will effectively mean a transfer of MOCA's collection to the county's art complex ... of both. -- The National Book Award nominees were announced this morning in Chicago. A full report [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 18:45:09

To p2pnet — ‘You’ll be sorry!’

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P: “You a fucking washed out loser. You can not make a living in any other way except by running a site which says it is a new site that which is nothing but you shooting your mouth off.” That’s part of several emails I found waiting for me following yesterday’s Trolls? Not. But flames? OK (mostly) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 15:27:24

Rachel explains: "The hidden perils of poorly-connected streets, or why I’m afraid of German Shepherds"

Today I am able to treat you to another guest post by my colleague Rachel Sohmer, who hits it out of the park: I grew up in a typical subdivision of detached single-family homes built in the 60s, where cul-de-sacs and long blocks ruled the day. On the plus side, our small houses and lot sizes made the neighborhood somewhat walkable, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 15:20:27

Torture ambivalence masquerading as moral and intellectual superiority

(updated below - Update II) Behold the now-solidified Smart, Reasonable American Consensus on torture:  the agreed-upon method for dismissing away -- mitigating and even justifying -- the fact that our leaders, more or less out in the open, instituted a systematic torture regime with the consent of our key elite institutions and a huge bulk of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 09:30:11

Will a short sale hurt my credit score?

When I meet with homeowners who are struggling with their mortgage are maybe behind on payments and have no equity in their home, ... or foreclosure on one’s credit report. I recently came across some great information provided by a mortgage ... my report and if it appears that their only option is to sell their house in a short sale, I always [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:14:24

Information Is Power 1_ EU Funding Orwellian Technology…

Information is Power 1 – EU funding Orwellian technology by IanPJ on Sun 20 Sep 2009 12:00 BST This morning the Telegraph tells us that the EU is funding an ‘Orwellian’ artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for “abnormal behaviour” The European Union is spending millions of pounds developing “Orwellian” technologies designed to scour the internet and CCTV images for “abnormal behaviour”. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-26 09:44:36

Deal with Credit Before Divorce

by Rob Kosberg When you are about to file for divorce, you know that this is a horrible experience no matter how much you want to do it ... . Legal advice may help with this. Finances should be worked out, if at all possible, before the divorce is completed. Credit reports for each partner need to be secured, examined and fixed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 22:06:48

Holiday Wellness Gifting

This E - Newsletter comes to you because either you requested it, gave me permission to send it to you or I thought you might find it of interest. If for any reason you'd like to no longer receive this monthly communication - please reply accordingly. I have great regard for your time - thank you for allowing me to be a resource for you [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 11:03:40

HSBC are thugs (sorry "partners")

HSBC has gotten a little aggro lately – an analyst dispute widely reported in the FT and other places ... on the web. Bally managed to report not only overdue fees (for which the customer had falsely been induced to agree) as receivables – but they included penalties as per credit cards. Obviously [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:18:26

Get A Fresh Start After Filing For Bankruptcy

Get A Fresh Start After Filing For Bankruptcy Posted admin in Uncategorized Comments Off Because of a number of problems that can arise, ... . There is credit counseling available when people are overwhelmed with debt and sometimes they even ... to consult with a bankruptcy lawyer, or a credit counseling service at the very least. Many people try [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 18:00:33

Contrasting recent Oklahoma City and Winnipeg morning radio coverage about education

I had a moment of significant cognitive dissonance this morning driving in to work, listening to the radio. photo credit: rakkasan69 This past Friday morning, for THREE HOURS, I was a minor guest ... them put down with disgust a news report about a school (in the UK, I think) where the school [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 04:10:21

Project Humanbeingsfirst Index

Honorific of the day “you are a completely stupid fool, a disgrace to humanity” -- Paul Craig Roberts, ... to Ellen Brown's 'How to Resolve the Credit Crisis' January 13, 2009 Palestinians Don't Bleed! GAZA ... ) More Essays N Reports ...Latest Letters Letter to Editor – Premeditated Radicalization: Why? January 11 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:27:00

International Marketing Review #35

International Marketing Review - Globalization and the Global Economy Click here for a list of previous International Marketing Reviews [ ... ? posted at Global Business Perspectives saying “Everyone is talking about how companies can cope better when national recessions hit because of situations like the recent credit crunch and the subsequent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 11:19:04

CCI calls for Boycott

by Catholic Citizens of Illinois When the Catholic Bishops of the United States established the Campaign for Human Development in 1970, ... , community-run schools, minority-owned cooperatives and credit unions, capital for industrial ... of the Democrat Party. In a November 4 report in The Washington Time, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 17:21:11

Debt Elimination Tips: How To Reduce Debt With These Do’s and Don’ts

My own debt elimination tips and thoughts on how to reduce debt. I’ve learned from my mistakes so I hope you do as I say, not as I did. In the mid- to late-’90’s, I made accumulating credit card debt something of a hobby. It wasn’t exactly a conscious decision, but every time I handed over that piece of plastic with my name [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 23:58:35

Debt Validation And Collection Agencies

Under the FDCPA or the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act , you have the right to “debt validation”. This is a demand from the collection agency and the original creditor that the debt is really your responsibility and that the balances, terms of the loan and any other pertinent information is correct and accurate. A collection agency must also provide proof that they have the legal right to attempt to collect the debt. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 23:06:03

Best debt collection agency!!

I was the finance head for my department and I used to suffer a lot and it was a real pain when it comes to recovering money that is owned. You give out goods on credit and then they fail to pay the money back. That’s when my friend suggested my a good debt collection company. American profit recovery is a wonderful debt Collection [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 04:13:52

Toward a National Journalism Foundation

Amid so much talk of federal bailouts for the banking and auto industries, what would a national bailout plan for journalism look like? If you were given $700 billion to save journalism, how would you use it? How would you fix the system? The End of Commercial Media Several months ago I watched Roger Alton, the new editor of the Britain daily, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 22:13:05

HOLLYWOOD's HOTTEST BUNS: the fine behind of Beyonce; her backside is beyond the realm of bubble perfect; she has a stupid butt!

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (pronounced /biːˈɑn.seɪ/, born September 4, 1981), commonly known as Beyoncé, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools, and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 04:59:00

Episode 5007 (1/14/2009)

Hey, I don’t pay my taxes; why can’t I be treasury secretary? This is The Colbert Report! ... him his own ass.” Guest- Alan Khazei In closing: “Well, that’s it for The Report, everybody. Remember ... get not one, but two sets billed to your credit card. Goodnight everybody!” Video Highlight: P.K. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 03:20:16

Tomorrow’s Star Bloggers Talk About Blogging

When a blogger becomes famous, everyone wants to get in touch with her, asking for interviews, sharing their post ideas, or just looking for a quick chat. But at that point, reaching out to her might already be too late. Unless the blogger tells you otherwise, there is nothing wrong with trying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 13:04:41

Is Personal Information Property?

Note: This article originally appeared on the Security Catalyst Blog A colleague recently asked me, “When did my personal information become someone’s property?” It’s a question with a vital answer, because if my personal information belongs to someone else, then they can do whatever they want with it [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 19:59:52

FINANCE AND ECONOMICS: "Global finance: Lifelines; A special section on the crisis looks at prospects for the global economy, ... of recession," The Economist, 11 October 2008. SPECIAL REPORT: "When fortune frowned: A special report ... like the credit-default swaps were--and therein lies the real danger, according to most. So yeah, a global SEC [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 15:05:31

Best Blog Posts of 2008 (Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves)

Last year my compilation of what bloggers chose as their own best posts of the year proved so popular, at least with the participating bloggers' mothers, that I have decided to make it an annual affair. But enjoy it while you can. When the Obama Administration institutes its secret plan to extend the Fairness Doctrine to the Internet, this blog, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 21:00:00

The 60 Most Anticipated Films Of 2009

2009 is obviously underway, and it could be a really great year. In no particular order, we've written about (or mentioned in brief) 60-plus films that we're looking forward to in 2009 (we actually name roughly 78 films in total, give or take). Sure, some of them we have reservations about, and some could be totally godawful, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 22:24:00

Consumer Credit Counseling

Consumer Credit Counseling January 17, 2009 at 5:00 pm · Filed under Credit Counseling Services div style=’float: right; width: 100px; padding: ... on financed loans and credit card debt can become onerous and when you add in penalties and late fees ... impossible for anyone to compete in today’s arena without the aid of a credit card. And that’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 22:00:36

Tomorrow’s Star Bloggers Talk About Blogging

When a blogger becomes famous, everyone wants to get in touch with her, asking for interviews, sharing their post ideas, or just looking for a quick chat. But at that point, reaching out to her might already be too late. Unless the blogger tells you otherwise, there is nothing wrong with trying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 01:24:38

Tomorrow’s Star Bloggers Talk About Blogging

When a blogger becomes famous, everyone wants to get in touch with her, asking for interviews, sharing their post ideas, or just looking for a quick chat. But at that point, reaching out to her might already be too late. Unless the blogger tells you otherwise, there is nothing wrong with trying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:17:19

How And Where To Obtain A Copy Of Your Credit File

There are three major companies reporting on the public’s credit activities in Australia: Dun & Bradstreet, Tasmanian Collection Service, and Veda Advantage. Each of these companies deals with aspects of public credit and keeps files of the public. They keep files for businesses and individuals alike that have been credit active [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:48:26

Daily Dose: 12/02/08

» AsianWeek Market Report » Chinese Americans Petition Against Bill Richardson » The New Team: Christopher Lu » Mike Honda Speculated as Contender for Post in Obama Adminstration » Crow Collection of Asian Art Tracks a Generation Shaking Free of History » Asian American Literary Awards [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 20:56:58

Goodbye Cash-out. Hello Debt Settlement. Part 2 of 3

(If you missed Part 1 - you can find it here) If you believe the hype spun by many debt settlement firms, ... consumers fail in their efforts. If you believe the media and the FTC - it’s because all debt ... percentage of the people that contact them. Some consumers are better served by consumer credit counseling [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 16:04:43

Photo of the Week: Winter Running

I thought it only fitting to find a winter photo to go along with Ian’s “Cold Weather Running“ ... of my running friends. Photo credit goes to me and you can check out other wintery weather photos in my Cross Country Race Collection over at Flickr. Got a photo you would like featured? Leave [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 13:00:14

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