"Billion Dollar Tax Havens For TARP Recipients?"

Fri Jan 16, 7:56 PM ETThe Bank of America (BOTTOM) and Citibank (R) ... -dollar losses from the ongoing global credit crisis.Bank of America posted its first quarterly loss ... assets.Also scrambling to survive huge new losses triggered by the credit crunch was Citigroup, which [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:32:00

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Denver Post Removes ‘The Lord’ From Burris Story

-By Warner Todd Huston The Denver Post seems to have decided that “the Lord” should not be allowed in its paper. In a January 5 report about Illinois Senator wannabe Roland Burris, the unwelcome Burris ... from the story. One wonders why reference to the Lord was scrubbed from the report? The report by David Espo [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:01:38

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 ... business produces goods and services worth over $880 billion yearly (Figures above obtained [more...]

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

A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 2)

We have swallowed the red pill, which now makes its way to the stomach. The coating dissolves. The rotor spins up and the device begins to operate. Inside, the sodium-metal core remains intact.And we begin the treatment. Again, our goal is to detach you - by "you," of course, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 11:44:00

On Mayor Willie Herenton (The $91,000 Question)

UPDATE (1/16): Earlier this week, when the CA wrote about Herenton's alleged $91,000 gain, should it have also explored indepth the past of Tre Hargett, who was also mentioned in an separate article that shared the front page and has some baggage of his own, including being mentioned in the Tennessee Waltz investigation? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:47:00

The 10 Biggest Cleantech Disappointments of 2008

There was a lot to cheer about in the cleantech sector in 2008: record investment levels, a U.S ... out of his sails. 4) Wave Power Plan Gets Washed Away: Canadian company Finavera Renewables saw ... Gets Dirty: A report from the think tank the Center for American Progress finds coal companies [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 15:51:39

AP: No Experience in new CIA Chief Somehow Shows Obama’s ‘Clean Break from Bush Administration’?

-By Warner Todd Huston To paraphrase Forrest Gump, Inexperienced is as inexperienced does. At least that is what comes to my mind when hearing that Barack Obama has picked the inoffensive, completely inexperienced and unqualified Leon Panetta to be the new director of the CIA. Really. Leon Panetta? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 10:54:10

Lost In A Sea Of Stark, Empty Houses And Vacant Lots

It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “Record numbers of Sonoma County homeowners are seeing property taxes fall, softening the blow from plummeting values. Steven James and Judy O’Brien bought their Windsor home in February 2005 for $670,000 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 17:57:28

ScamBuster 288

BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION Metro Plaza, Plot 991/992 Zakari Maimalari Street Cadastral Zone AO, Central Business District, Abuja. Phone : +234 8038242759. ATTENTION; The BRITISH High Commission in Nigeria,Benin Republic,Ghana and Bokinafaso received a report of scam against you and other British/US citizens and Malaysia,Etc. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 08:44:47

Well regardless of whether you’ve gone through bankruptcy or

Well, regardless of whether you’ve gone through bankruptcy or for whatever reason you have bad credit, there are ways to clean up credit report issues and fix your credit. Do you want to avoid pain? Nobody how much time you spend on bad credit. If you want to learn how to buy a home after bankruptcy , he shoots first start to learn how to fix your credit first. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 11:31:40

Bear market intensifies for crude; prices tumble

With auto sales in the tank and people pulling back in every area to conserve and save, it is no wonder that oil consumption is on the drop ... up again overnight.An oil industry report Thursday showed just how much energy use eroded over the past [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:25:02

Big Sugar deal approved

By Curtis Morgan Miami Herald Water managers on Tuesday narrowly approved a $1.34-billion deal to buy a sprawling swath of sugar fields, a landmark purchase with promise to dramatically reshape Everglades restoration and surrounding farming communities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 00:12:49

DrumBeat: January 12, 2009

A novel plan for economic stimulus What's different now? In the 1930s, even though the U.S ... Intelligence Council's "Global Trends 2025" report concluded that, in the near term, pressure ... " report. It would appear that we need to plan for a less energy-intense future. StatoilHydro drills [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:02:56

House starts impeachment, blocks special election

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/12/second-chances.html -- House starts impeachment, blocks special election - Fran Eaton (FROM THE ARTICLE: IR learned this evening that the nine Republicans who will serve on the impeachment committee are: State Reps Jim Durkin, Jim Sacia, Chapin Rose, Roger Eddy, Bill Black, Mike Bost, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 03:56:54

7 Ways to Lower Your Energy Bills

Are the bills piling up? by Ethan Ewing, www.bills.com If you’re like many Americans, you’re probably looking for ways to trim costs while the economy is in a down turn.  According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the average American home will spend $990 on heating this year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 17:28:36

DrumBeat: January 14, 2009

DrumBeat: January 14, 2009 Obama energy goal hard to meet: Bodman WASHINGTON (Reuters) ... in energy prices, but this would not affect its $2.3 billion credit facility, the independent oil ... (Bloomberg) — Crude oil fell after a U.S. government report showed that stockpiles climbed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:22:13

How Do Instant Approval Credit Cards Online Work?

Instant approval credit cards online are cards which you can apply online and receive notification via email of the acceptance or denial of the credit card, within just few seconds after filling out an online credit card application. To get an instant approval credit card, you must have at least good to excellent credit, or in other words [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 00:39:56

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

FT: Citi to Split Investment and Commercial Bank

The irony is rich, and a bit sad. I had Citi as a client in the 1980s, and served them in a small way in their efforts to make inroads into investment banking. It looked like a quixotic effort with commercial banks seeming likely to remain relegated to the margins: smaller clients, simpler deals [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 21:56:34

Food, Future, Famine?

Read more of this story » planet earth A new report prepared by the National Intelligence Council has projected that the world would be ... . Depletion of Natural Resources The new report paints a very grim picture of our future. While [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 16:55:02

Retail Fraud Rates Plummeted the Night McColo Went Offline

Retail Fraud Rates Plummeted the Night McColo Went Offline One month after the shutdown of hosting provider McColo Corp ... Internet providers. But according to one noted fraud expert, spam wasn't the only thing that may have been routed through the Silicon Valley based host: New evidence found that retail fraud dropped [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 23:31:42

Green Jobs: Fact or Fiction?

GREEN JOBS: Fact or Fiction? An Assessment of the Literature January 2009 By Robert Michaels and Robert P. Murphy Download as PDF Introduction and Executive Summary I. Green Recovery, Center for American Progress II. Job Opportunities for the Green Economy, Political Economy Research Institute III [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:02:30

Ecosystem Markets Take Off

Image credit: WikipediaEcosystem markets, exchanges of nature's various services, are adding new ... group New Carbon Finance, which released a report on the topic last week. The net worth of the carbon [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:46:45

House Dems Detail $825 Bln. American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan

Jan 15: According to information posted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ... . - More than $20 billion in tax cuts for clean, renewable energy including a new enhanced tax credit ... energy, and a multi-year extension of the production tax credit for wind, hydro, geothermal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:10:00

AP: No Experience in new CIA Chief Somehow Shows Obama’s ‘Clean Break from Bush Administration’?

To paraphrase Forrest Gump, Inexperienced is as inexperienced does. At least that is what comes to my mind when hearing that Barack Obama has picked the inoffensive, completely inexperienced and unqualified Leon Panetta to be the new director of the CIA. Really. Leon Panetta? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 02:46:04

DrumBeat: January 6, 2009

The Costly Compromises of Oil From Sand OTTAWA — A major source of oil for the United States must now confront another problem: its carbon footprint. Canada, in large part because of the production capacity of its oil sands, is now the largest oil supplier to the United States [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:47:30

The End of an Era

The End of an Era Posted on January 16, 2009 by brandibratrude photo credit Issue #278 Jan 16, 2009 The End of an Era Our long national nightmare is (almost ... Lohan to Amy Winehouse on the Hot Mess scale. Bush’s Texas Two-Step on Gas Prices: Oil closes over [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:39:55

Posts about Home Sales as of January 14, 2009

It’s Time For Girl Scout Cookies! - lakelandlocal.com 01/14/2009 photo credit: jrayfarm1980 This is a good time of year for cookie lovers … . The pushers ... out on his own some time, … for the Nintendo DS and took advantage of the Toys R Us sales [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:24:35

Obama’s ear marked porcine stimulation of government bill

Originally published by Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report An astute political observer in Alabama, ... in new spending and $275 billion in tax relief… the document provides the first blueprint of how [more...]

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

Environmental Federal Register, Vol. 74, No. 11, January 16, 2009

Readers & Subscribers: Please see the Readers Note in the right column ... or company contribution by credit card (click here). Fill out the form (optional); insert "REGTrak ... environmental briefing report. Subscribers Note: There will not be a Federal Register published [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:18:00

UFC 93 predictions, preview and analysis

UFC 93 predictions, preview and analysis 16 Jan 2009 UFC 93: “Franklin vs ... re looking for an unbiased and objective examination of each contest, then I’m happy to report ... and UFC 77. But give credit where credit is due: “Ace” was one win away from cleaning out an entire [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:02:45

DrumBeat: January 7, 2009

Shell seeks Colo. water for oil shale production Shell Oil has filed for the first major water right on the Yampa River in northwest Colorado for ... more than $4 a barrel Wednesday after a government report showed much larger than expected increases [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:57:26

Media & Politics

Media & Politics 16-Jan-09 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Outgoing CIA director defends detainee interrogation program (McClatchy) ... of Bush’s policies will be grudging, if silent, acknowledgement of how much he got right.” Holder Agrees [more...]

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

At last, some good sense on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

The Vattenfall CCS power station under construction at Schwarze Pumpe, Germany. The main power station can be seen in the background. Image credit: Vattenfall AB ... 3 gigawatts of CCS plant have been installed, the report proposes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:41:39

Sunday Reading: Broder Hammers Obama

Sunday Reading: Broder Hammers ObamaPresident-elect Barack Obama's popularity ratings may still be sky high but the Post's David Broder -- dean of the political press corps in Washington -- isn't happy with the performance of the former Illinois Senator in recent weeks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 18:15:00

Wednesday, 1/14

Sun 5:50BEQ 4:40Tausig 4:17Onion 3:55NYT 3:53LAT 3:13(updated at 1:10 p.m. Wednesday)Between a condo board meeting and watching the VH1 tribute to The Who (including a rare set from The Who themselves), TiVoed from the Palladia HD channel, it sure has gotten late, so I'll be quick here [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 05:26:00

King Coal Has No Clothes

King Coal Has No Clothes Posted on January 13, 2009 by brandibratrude photo credit Issue #277 Jan 12, 2009 King Coal Has No Clothes If there was any remaining doubt that coal is about the farthest possible thing from clean, it was dispelled by the disastrous coal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:00:23

Obama To Hold Fiscal Responsibility Summit

Obama To Hold Fiscal Responsibility SummitPresident-elect Barack Obama visits the Post newsroom after a meeting with the editorial board and ... , but resisted questions about how quickly the average American can expect to see tangible results [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:58:11

The Ex Labour Minister & the African Private Equity Firm

Valerie Amos was Britain's first black woman Cabinet Minister when she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development in 2003. She left the Cabinet when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister and was appointed as the EU's representative to the African Union [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:00:00

Obama's first plan

Obama's first plan The House Appropriations Committee introduced its version of the Obama administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan ... Depression. Credit is frozen, consumer purchasing power is in decline, in the last four months [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:16:25

Young Out in GOP Housecleaning

Young Out in GOP Housecleaning By Ben Pershing Amid the intense focus on two Democrats with ethics problems, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Rep ... and Ethics in Washington's "Most Embarrassing Reelected Members of Congress" report [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 18:00:00

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 ... t do as much for Africa as Bush has. Bob Geldof, Irish rocker and Africa activist, says the Texas [more...]

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

Best Guidebook to A Few Tricks To Raise Your Credit Score

Raise Your Credit Score Your beacon report can be your most prize possession or your most annoying hindrance ... your would need if you are trying to raise your credit score is to get a free copy of your free triple score. A copy of your credit report will let you know what you need to do in order to raise [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 14:14:02

DrumBeat: January 11, 2009

UAE and Qatar will lead demand for oil in Gulf this year The UAE and Qatar will lead the 18 million barrels a day growth in oil demand in the Gulf in 2009, energy analysis firm PFC energy said in its latest report. The Washington-based company said diesel and jet fuel will lead the overall growth in demand for fuel oil in the GCC in 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 13:56:01

Sightline Daily top picks 01/14/2009

Sightline Daily top picks 01/14/2009 Posted on January 14, 2009 by brandibratrude photo credit Sightline Daily | Northwest News That Matters Top ... bill is getting high, wells that pump enough clean water to meet many Clark County communities’ needs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:42:51

Monitor Your Free Credit Reports

Monitor Your Free Credit Reports by jim on December 24, ... wrongly reported a late payment or some other adverse note on his credit report, his FICO was 830. (he says bankruptcy, but credit card companies can’t put that) Afterwards, his score fell to 750 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 12:17:04

Latest News in Credit Repair and Credit Score - Jan 14, 2009

Trailer Report - Edmonton Sun 11 Jan 2009 at 2:00am Share: ... News - Fort McMurray Today - Grande Prairie … Shape up your credit report - The State 10 Jan 2009 at 9:06pm Getting your credit report in shape is a sound idea after the money-spending holiday [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:19:33

Day 12 of the War, Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Technical issues with blogger and my internet connection are making updates very slow.. ... . If items are reported in the Mainstream Israeli Media we will report them as well.12:27 GRAD rocket [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 21:46:00

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? (Chip Somodevilla/Bloomberg News)Revelations yesterday that Tim Geithner, the secretary of treasury designate for President-elect Barack Obama, [more...]

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

Consumer Traps & Tips & Tallahassee Report from Sen. Deutch

The Sheriff’s Department has issued an alert for all citizens ... that caused him to fall behind on his credit card payments. His unpaid balances were then sent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:29:05

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