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Concerns PersistWorries about the health of the financial sector are persisting and a small profit from JP Morgan Chase is doing little to assuage concerns after a report that Bank of America is negotiating with the federal government over aid ... . The bank also faced higher credit costs associated with a continued deterioration across its loan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:58:00

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Paulson Bank Bailout in ‘Great Stress’ Misses Terms Buffett Won

Henry Paulson’s bank bailouts, done under “great stress” during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, failed to win for U.S. taxpayers what Warren Buffett received for his shareholders by investing in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The Treasury secretary made 174 purchases of banks’ preferred shares that include warrants to buy stock [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 18:02:45

5 Reasons Why Stocks and Commodities Will Soar Over Next 9 Months

Right now we're in an Alice in Wonderland world where the government not only wants to spend $700 billion on buying up banks' bad debt but it also ... , you realize you’ve got one last option. You have $25,000 worth of unused credit lines you could tap ... the credit lines and pull a rabbit out of a hat -- come up with a brilliant marketing campaign [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 19:28:43

One good thing about setting such low goals -- they aren't that hard to achieve ... I was otherwise occupied. This last week was a bit harder, because we have a fair number of spot shortages ... . My credit card turns over about mid-month, so that bills will come due in late February. So I'm biding [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:11:58

Suggested Spending Cuts Courtesy of the Republican Legislators

Last week Governor Corzine complained whined that the mean Republicans should have come to his office rather than take him to court to force him to ... in a recent State Auditor’s Report which noted: (1) aid has been awarded without any application ... have not been prepared as required by law; (4) hearings have not been held to determine if towns [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 21:17:00

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, ... get this question - “Will a short sale hurt my credit score? And if so, by how much?” I have been doing ... or foreclosure on one’s credit report. I recently came across some great information provided by a mortgage [more...]

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

Ed McMahon, credit bureau ‘viral rapper’

p2pnet news view | Advertising:- “Jovial TV titan Ed McMahon” is, “on the brink of losing his Beverly Hills mansion, ... by credit bureau Experian,” says the Associated Press, adding: “The videos feature McMahon wearing ... represents ‘a man who is taking charge’.” Yes. Well …. Anyhow, free credit report, eh? There’s always [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 17:57:22

The Economic News Isn’t As Bad As the Media Wants You to Think It Is

Liz Peek Financial Columnist Today’s New York Times front page made me laugh. While the second-biggest jump in U.S ... Consumers Feel the Next Crisis: It’s Credit Cards.” Are they so worried that even one tiny day of respite ... has boosted the nation’s appetite for change, and that each new dismal report sinks McCain’s prospects [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 17:30:08

Nuclear Reactions and other state news briefs

Some short articles I've run across today... South Carolinians will get to air their nuclear reactions to SCE&G's plans for Fairfield County: ... are needed to meet growing demand for electricity in South Carolina. Several organizations, including ... Department was scheduled to report on the impact of budget cuts today:The department briefs a Ways [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:01:33

The Meaning of Life?

Copy the list below and bold all of the ones you have done. 1. Touched an iceberg2. Slept under the stars 3. Been a part of a hockey fight 4. Changed a baby’s diaper5. Watched a meteor shower 6. Given more than you can afford to charity 7. Swam with wild dolphins 8. Climbed a mountain 9. Held a tarantula10. Said “I love you” and meant it 11 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 09:22:00

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 geological reasons --- the inability to find and produce enough oil to keep our annual consumption ... Lynch & Co. said in a report today. U.S. fuel demand during the four weeks ended Nov. 28 was down [more...]

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

Ministers could set loan rates, banks warned

Direct Whitehall control over the lending rates of Britain's high-street banks is among the contingency plans being drawn up by Alistair Darling to ensure that the dearth of lending caused by the credit crunch does not force thousands of small ... to the small business sector had risen in recent months. A Treasury source said the government's [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 00:10:52

SC Diocese Appears to Repudiates Catechism; SC Priest Is ‘Reined In,’ But Right (Update: Full Text of Letter)

BizzyBlog), I noted news that Fr. Newman, a Catholic priest and pastor at St. Mary’s Church in Greenville, South Carolina, had informed parishoners who voted for Barack Obama in full knowledge of the Illinois Senator’s aggressively proabortion positions that they “should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 14:15:55

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/12/2008

Some headlines to look at:“Muslim Killed Catholic Girl in Love With Flatmate”“London Fundraisers Linked to Stoning of 13-Year-Old”“Possibly Tens of Thousands of Somalis in the US Illegally”“New Anti-Christian Attack in Mosul, Two Sisters Killed”But then there’s this:“Denmark: Ready to Ban Headscarves for Judges”So it’s not all bad news [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 04:52:00

PE Firms: Twice as Good at Growing Companies?

One of the most oft-heard knocks against private-equity firms is that they are just financial engineers–loading up their targets with debt, ... for some time. Now that the credit crunch has put an end to easy money and that it is unlikely such super-heated financing conditions will soon-–if ever–return, how will private equity fair [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 08:26:00

So far, so good?

One good thing about setting such low goals -- they aren't that hard to achieve ... I was otherwise occupied. This last week was a bit harder, because we have a fair number of spot shortages, but I ignored them.I have one big payment to the governments for Pat's quarterly wages. My credit card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 20:17:00

Anchorage Daily News Pushing Debunked Fake Palin Pregnancy Story Again: Threatens her Doctor with Bad Coverage if he Refuses to Violate Patient Doctor Confidentiality

January 12, 2009 — iusbvision Gov. Palin’s Press Spokesperson Bill McAllister went on the Eddie Burke Radio Show on 1/09/09 to discuss media bias ... her its your fault. Report it every time one of the Bush twins has a beer. Hands off Chealsea ... parachuted into Alaska in  a race to report every allegation made by a political enemy as a fact [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 06:52:14

How to Get a Job By Shooting Up a Church

By David Swanson Imagine being so angry that you couldn't find a job that you were able to decide, as a man in Tennessee just did, ... ineffectively) workers' rights, union rights, and fair trade, who oppose NAFTA, oppose tax breaks ... report completely playing along with your delusion, and writing: "Although individual Unitarian [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 01:00:27

Quality Counts Lacks Quality

(Guest post by Stuart Buck) Education Week has released its annual report “Quality Counts, ... , the report reminds me of the old joke (I can’t remember who to credit for this) of a beggar sitting ... get an overall score equal to a state with low spending and high achievement.  But if a school manages [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:20:45

How to Make Money (Legally)

In this economy, who couldn’t use some extra bucks? (BTW, there should be a drinking game where you have to do a shot every time you hear the phrase “in this economy.” My friend overheard a little girl in a toy store begging for a dollhouse. Her mom replied, “In this economy?” I’m sure that made perfect sense to her 5-YEAR-OLD!!) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:07:00

Bill Clinton shares an insight about live microphones

Bill Clinton offered a nifty defense of Jesse Jackson’s “I didn’t know the microphone was on” moment last week, ... on a (baseless, as it turned out) report that Jackson had decided to endorse Iowa senator Tom Harkin ... .” And last month Clinton slipped up again. He went on a tirade against Vanity Fair writer Todd [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 01:32:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/5/2009

Read through the official European reactions to Israel’s ground offensive into Gaza: Zapatero, the Vatican, the Italian government — all are pressuring Israel for a ceasefire. The surprise is Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who states that it would be pointless to condemn Israel without addressing what Hamas is doing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:54:00

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

The Big Lie

Seattle Times editorial columnist Joni Balter defends her newspaper’s biased and crappy reporting on WA-08: ... , she should not have gotten twisted up in a dispute about a great degree. Uh-huh.  First ... ?  This from the women who argued to my face that it was totally irresponsible for the press to report [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 19:05:12

McCain and Obama: neither goes far enough on patent reform

Earlier this week, I published a scorecard comparing the two presidential campaigns on tech issues ... better. To his great credit, however, he does propose "opening up the patent process to citizen review ... idea for resolving appears to be asking that we find some way to resolve patent disputes besides [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 20:57:29

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/16/2008

A woman will lead Muslim prayers in Oxford. The EU bans incandescent bulbs. The FBI launches an investigation of ACORN.But the story about the subduing of the drunken hijacker on an airliner bound from Turkey to St. Petersburg is my favorite, because of this quote:“Surprisingly this hooligan was not British,” said an official at Pulkovo [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 03:55:00

LOVE NOTES TO LEO

"Ubiquitous" TyposLeo, buddy—our residents can’t thank you enough for providing us with the definition of “ubiquitous” in your recent Web site ... , you get 50% credit since you spelled it correctly once and blew it the second time. And, it’ ... skills? Aren’t you overdue for a trip to visit our fair city? It would be great if you popped your head [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 12:46:00

De-leveraging the Children of Wall Street

submitted by James Baker Welch, VP of Rothschild Investments One of the most stunning facts of the 2008 Financial Melt-down has been the wholesale ... regulatory agencies to determine if the institution has met the credit needs of its entire community. 1   The CRA began to compel banks to underwrite less credit-worthy mortgage loans in order [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:40:18

“Campaign”Carl Cameron Does McCain Campaign Commercials Full Of the Usual Spin (Part One)

Last night (August 18th) Fox’s “Campaign” Carl Cameron was on a roll as he did two McCain booster reports on two different programs. On the 5PM “America’s Election HQ, hosted by E.D. Hill (whose idea of fair and balanced ... ) Cameron’s partisanship wasn’t even thinly disguised. He followed this endorsement by another report [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 16:11:54

Rough Waters in the Dark Pool

Rob Curran of Dow Jones Newswires has this report on a splashing fight between a pair of brokerages. dark_art_200_20080728111014.jpg ... in the pool. Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse were way ahead of their peers in recognizing the potential ... systems, according to Tabb Group’s Liquidity Matrix, with Credit Suisse’s CrossFinder second at 16%. None [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 15:19:19

Google Analytics Help: Questions, Answers, Tips, Ideas, Suggestions

Tags, tracking advanced javascript functions, navigation summaries and exit pages, delights of benchmarking, challenges with goals and funnels, monogamy or polygamy, flash tracking and ajax, multi domain tracking, entrance paths (my favorite!), bosses and robots (is there a difference?), we tackle all these topics & more in this post [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 08:47:20

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Personal Injury Lawyer New Years Recap

As I did last year, I am going to briefly recap some of the highs and lows for personal injury victims during 2008 and I will also try to make ... is when you are trying to obtain a nursing home admission for a loved one and they confront ... companies, other telecommunication companies, credit card companies, etc.  I have even seen a clause [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:35:11

The Napster Of Newspapers

It's no secret that I tend to think folks who worry about plagiarism quite often blow the issue out of proportion ... similar to everyday collaboration. Yes, the failure to properly credit the original author is a bit ... of plagiarism ever discovered: an entire Texas-based free alternative weekly newspaper that appears [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 18:09:11

Does Wall Street Have a Death Wish?

After several days of violent fluctuations, the world’s stock markets registered a massive increase in share prices on Thursday afternoon and on ... , and AIG; massive injections of new credit by the Fed and other major central banks; and the SEC’ ... mortgages and related securities, for the most part), then it is fair to conclude [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 23:42:16

Is Watchmen Director Zack Snyder Really 'Visionary'?

Watchmen_manhattan The Watchmen movie trailers we've seen so far offer eye-catching insight into how Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' canonical comic ... of source material, and I can report that he was committed to taking panels right from those acclaimed ... that audience wants is for a relatively new Hollywood director to take credit for the [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 23:42:54

BREAKING KNEES!!! The Internet May Go Dark Just As "Kneegate" Negates Pats' Season!

*Pardon me as I rehash the obvious, perhaps even use some of the same jokes you've already seen/heard - I haven't been in tune with the national ... the "One" part of that "18 and..." mantra. But I won't take credit for Tom Brady realizing the law ... us all: 1. If the Pats do well, Bill Belichick will get MORE credit. We all know it's his fault [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 13:50:37

Oversight Panel Report Grim, Tough, Inviting

Americans are being formally invited to participate in discussingthe ongoing federal program to stabilize the ... the program’s implementation. The panel also issued its first report yesterday, signed by the panel’s Chair ... and New York Superintendent of Banking, Richard Neiman. (One panel member, Rep. Jeb Hensarling [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 22:13:12

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

Fair Weather Friends of the Market

It’s hardly a news flash that many people who are widely regarded as lions of the pro-market side have gone over to the dark side in recent months ... tremendous volatility, officials at the Fed and the Treasury began to act as if imminent disaster loomed ... have known better began to talk and to act as if the economy stood on the brink of complete [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 22:46:08

How To Get Your Free Government Credit Report

How To Get Your Free Government Credit Report by Andy ZainBy law, you are entitled to one free government credit report each year, but you have to apply to get it. The consumer reporting companies are covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act to ensure privacy and accuracy.Contained in your credit report is personal information like how you pay your bills, any arrests, bankruptcies or legal actions, as well as your full name and address. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 08:17:23

MSM Stealing Blog Content: Times Online Joining Growing MSM Trend?

John Edwards Love Child Story Goes International No Attribution in TimesOnline Edwards story Is This a New Business Model for a Mainstream Media ... to arise. We sent a letter yesterday to the Times Editor-in-Chief asking that proper credit be given ... stated that they viewed us as a blog and because we were a blog, they did not need to credit us.” [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 00:06:16

If I Ruled the UK

They say you should read the sort of thing you write.  So I thought I’d have a look round some blogs this lunchtime ... (on behalf of the landlord, ha, ha) 6 months rent in advance - free credit in other words.  I’d just sold ... this is what I’d do, in response to some of her points:“1 Landlords are obliged to submit to the same credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:01:29

GHI: Grande Hotel

The Ghost Hunters International team seems to have made their way from Peru to Brazil without losing any more investigators (some may not, but I miss Andy Andrews, Master Debunker) and in fact they seemed to have temporarily picked one up in the form of Robert Hernandez, whom Robb assigned to "assist" Barry in Tech [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 17:58:02

6 Unlucky Australians Who Couldn’t Catch a Break

Last month, I wrote an article about fortunate Australians, which suggested that the nation deserves to be called “The Lucky Country ... at several business endeavours. He went to California for the 1848 gold rush, but while others were ... , took the credit (and a handsome reward from the government), and started an Australian gold rush [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 19:04:00

19 Days After Viciously Attacking Guest Who Called The Economy “Dire,” Hannity Now Accuses Democrats Of Ignoring Catastrophic Economic Problems

Less than three weeks ago, Sean Hannity had a bullyboy temper tantrum when a guest dared to say that the American economy is in “dire straits ... News contributor so he ought to know the kind of reporting that goes on (or not) right ... It was the (Democratic-backed) Community Reinvestment Act that started this ball rolling down the hill [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 09:10:44

DrumBeat: December 29, 2008

Gazprom, Once Mighty, Is Reeling MOSCOW — A year ago, Gazprom, the Russian natural gas monopoly, aspired to be the largest corporation in the world. Buoyed by high oil prices and political backing from the Kremlin, it had already achieved third place judging by market capitalization, behind Exxon Mobil and General Electric [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 14:06:30

What The F@#* Opie? Ya Ain't Seen Nothun Yet!

Here it is, the middle of the week, the predicted coldest night in recent memory, there’s nothing of consequence on TV, ... -agenda item was raised in the form of a council committee report from the housing/code enforcement ... & her entourage of landlords presented CM & Committee Chair John Gonder with a copy of said recommendation prior [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 07:12:00

Bank of America Seeks Second Bailout From Treasury Department

Yesterday, I speculated on the question of whether a bailout of those in credit card debt would be fair ... bailout funds to one of the nation’s largest credit card issuers. Just when I had begun to think ... .  Now, after its acquisition of mortgage lender Countrywide and investment bank Merrill Lynch, the fact [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:32:04

More Reasons to Build the Fence

At last report, the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico was behind schedule and over budget. A GAO study (from August 2008) ... shortages and land acquisition issues are also hampering the effort.To his credit, President-elect Barack ... office. If Mr. Obama needs additional justification, he should take a look at a new report [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:19:00

19 Days After Viciously Attacking Guest Who Called The Economy “Dire,” Hannity Now Accuses Democrats Of Ignoring Catastrophic Economic Problems Since 2004

Less than three weeks ago, Sean Hannity had a bullyboy temper tantrum when a guest dared to say that the American economy is in “dire straits ... News contributor so he ought to know the kind of reporting that goes on (or not) right ... It was the (Democratic-backed) Community Reinvestment Act that started this ball rolling down the hill [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 09:45:25

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