A growing financial burden By John Schenkenfelder Mr ... to revive America's economy. In the short term, we can easily justify massive tax cuts, corporate ... this nation has selfishly failed to balance its budgets and reduce debt. When the economy is back [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:44:03

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Are They Seriously Delusional?

By Chuck Butler, Editor of Currency Capitalist www.worldcurrencywatch.com This is getting ridiculous. Reuters reported last night that the U.S ... , when nothing but Fed rate increases, and the tax amnesty for U.S. Corporations doing business overseas propped ... plans, their money supply injections, their guarantees on debt, the fact that they taking [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:22:48

Market Outlook for 13.1.09

Headlines for the day Corporate News Headline IOC has tied up over Rs. 100 bn debt for 15 MT Paradip refineries, which is scheduled for commissioning in the first ... of 10 Weak Futures: Punj Lylod, Nagar Const, LITL, DLF, Ansal Infra, Star, TVS Motors, HDIL, R Com [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:33:00

Now's the Time to Invest!

OK so the government seems to think they can fix everything by printing money. That's what the bailouts are all about ... has to do is announce an across the board tax cut. That means cutting corporate taxes, import taxes, sales ... some Pesos. We are already 1 Trillion+ in debt and they want to double that. What that boils down [more...]

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

Are Junk Bonds A Buy?

In what I expect to be a wave of big name corporate bankruptcies, Canadian telecom giant Nortel files for bankruptcy protection.Nortel (NT) ... consider Junk Debt Showing Great Depression Defaults Lures Investors.Record yields on high-risk, high- yield bonds and loans are luring Babson Capital Management LLC and TCW Asset Management Co., even [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:25:00

Dynamic Business Data list Corporation

If you are want to start a new business, and if you are start you Corporation ... Forex Trading and Study (1) My Splendid Weekend with PC Software (3) Credit Card Debt Consolidation ... (0) Apply Your Extra Credit Card (0) Camelback Displays Material Sell Online (0) Look [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 09:37:18

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION. What are indicators of financial distress? What are indicators used in predicting corporate bankruptcy?

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTIONHere are some concise points for our Financial Learning Corner.Will the company fail? ... to total assets Debt to equity Fixed assets to stockholders' equityDoes company size bear ... . A balanced budget requires difficult choices, such as curtailment or elimination in certain services [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 08:41:00

Verizon Wireless To Acquire Alltel; Will Expand Nation’s Most Reliable Wireless Network

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Verizon Wireless has entered into an agreement with Alltel Corporation and Atlantis Holdings LLC, ... the equity of Alltel for approximately $5.9 billion. Based on Alltel’s projected net debt at closing [more...]

Date: 2008-06-06 13:41:59

DVD Releases 07/01/08

Drillbit Tyler This Week's DVD Releases / The Pajiba Staff When corporate chum like Drillbit Taylor comes up ... away the rest of their years emceeing infomercials or 2) repaying a debt to a past-his-prime director [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 16:16:32

Saturday Slime Slugs of Africa

Congratulation Dear Lucky Winner,due to the promo organized by Microsoft Corporation Your Email Won You £1,000.000.00GBP ... loan?Do you think of starting your own business?,Are you in debt? This is your chance to achieved [more...]

Date: 2008-07-26 05:42:04

Recourses Other Than Bankruptcy

by William Blake None of us ever plan to go bankrupt but you hear about it happening to large corporations all the time ... will allow you to make a sizeable credit card payment each month for a year or two until the debt ... . Finding an alternative to bankruptcy could save you a lot of hassle. A debt consolidation loan [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 20:07:26

America is crumbling

John and I have recently made the decision to start being more frugal with our money ... debt is being socialized, while profit is being privatized. The American people are being screwed. The middle class continues to shrink, while corporate fat cats rake in our tax dollars [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:06:00

50%+ rally in the stock market but situation is getting much worse

We have enjoyed a +50 percent rally in the stock market yet this rally has been unable to create private sector jobs or stem the economic pain for most. Millions have seen their bills skyrocket, credit card interest rates hiked, hour’s cut, wages slashed, and are dealing with an accelerating decline in home prices (FL) and pitiful stock portfolios. In order to get a sustained recovery, consumer spending (70% GDP) will have to rebound sharply, which is not going to happen anytime soon. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 12:17:40

They Call This Season ‘Fall’ for a Reason

Photo: Matthew Bradley / flickr So now it turns out that the whole Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) was a flop or more likely a scam. Remember Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson telling us last September that credit markets had locked up, and then, after half of the $750 billion that he extorted out of Congress was handed out to Wall Street firms, new President Barack Obama justifying the spending of the second half of the money because we needed to “get the banks lending again”? [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 16:27:36

They Call This Season ‘Fall’ for a Reason

Photo: Matthew Bradley / flickr So now it turns out that the whole Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) was a flop or more likely a scam. Remember Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson telling us last September that credit markets had locked up, and then, after half of the $750 billion that he extorted out of Congress was handed out to Wall Street firms, new President Barack Obama justifying the spending of the second half of the money because we needed to “get the banks lending again”? [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 16:27:36

Translating Corporate Speak: Wynn [Unforeseen Upside Edition #3]

More magic from Steve Wynn — slightly delayed due to our summer escapades — on his 2Q09 conference call. The Administration is more of a problem than they are of a help usually, if you read the headlines. Everyone is frightened to death about runaway inflation if these deficits are allowed to take place. The good news is the Senate seems to be slowing it down. But we can’t see where it’s good for business to have that debt as a percentage of GDP go from 30% to 60% or 70%. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 12:00:32

Big Merger Deals Signal Restored Confidence

After a period of hibernation, corporate mergers and acquisitions are back on the agenda, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in his latest DealBook column. While the price tags may not be hitting the highs they did during the boom times, the return of bigger M.&A. deals signals an increasing confidence among chief executives, who until now have been hesitant to ink any deals, Mr. Sorkin says. One segment that has not jumped back into the deal-making fray, however, is the private equity industry. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 10:15:53

Forgiven Debt Really is Income

There was a pretty good post over at WiseBread yesterday on how if a credit card company forgives some of what you owe, what was forgiven is income you have to pay taxes on. On the one hand, this is a point worth repeating because it seems to surprise most people. On the other hand, the post neglects to mention an important exception, and, moreover, feeds into the belief that this is an irrational fluke of the tax code. It isn’t. It makes sense. You owe Credit Card Corporation (CCC) $5000. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-23 15:59:00

The 7 new rules of financial security

In a world turned upside down, you must re-examine some basic assumptions. A good place to start: understanding the true nature of risk.John Maynard Keynes, the Depression-era economist who’s having quite the comeback, once quipped when he was accused of inconsistency: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”Money has long advocated the benefits of consistency in your investing and financial planning. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 10:57:27

Minefinders closes C$66m offering

TORONTO - Vancouver-based gold producer Minefinders Corporation has closed a C$66,03-million bought deal offering, the company announced on Tuesday.The proceeds will be used to repay debt, for ongoing development at the company's La Bolsa project, ... [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 15:47:07

Corporate banking - a new phenomenon of new socio economic global order

Corporate banking consists of simple business of issuing loans to more complex matters, such as helping minimize taxes paid by overseas subsidiaries, managing changes in foreign exchange rates, or working out the details of financing packages necessary for the construction of a new office, plant or other facility. In many cases, there is an overlap between corporate banking and capital markets. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 12:19:39

Post Properties Offering Stock – Analyst Blog

Post Properties, Inc. ( PPS ), a real estate investment trust (REIT), has recently sold over 4 million common shares at $17.75 each. Although the equity financing provided the much-needed cash to repay some of its outstanding debt, the move could potentially dilute earnings.  Post Properties expects to raise net proceeds of $68 million, after deducting the underwriting discount and other expenses associated with the public offering. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 16:16:55

Divinity, Love & Living!

Last week I announced that we were going to be embarking on a fabulous new adventure — & here we are! My amazing friend & psychic advisor Joycelle will be doing weekly readings right here! Am I on the right path & is this a viable career choice? I’m feeling as if the relationship I am in is falling apart, just wondering what to do & if the right person is ever going to come along. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 01:04:07

Will Deflationary Forces Overwhelm Global Fiscal Stimulus?

While Uncle Sam and his international brethren are doing everything they can to reflate the global economy, will the deflationary forces deeply embedded in the deleveraging process carry the day and the future? In doing so, will these deflationary forces usher in an economic dynamic not seen since the 1930s? The analysis and review by market savants, media mavens, and government pundits is ultimately mere noise relative to the denouement of the question proffered above. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 19:12:40

Bank Of America Cuts Its Acorn Funding

From the Wall Street Journal : Bank Pulls Back From Acorn Work SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 By JAMES R. HAGERTY Already facing the loss of federal government funding, the community-organizing group Acorn also has run afoul of one of its big corporate partners, Bank of America Corp . In response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, a spokesman for the banking company said it has "suspended current commitments" to Acorn Housing, an affiliated group, and "will not enter into any [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 04:03:59

Operation Rollback

Posted by Review-a-Day, September 29th, 2009 3 CommentsFiled under:Review-a-Day. The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business by Nelson Lichtenstein Reviewed by Jefferson DeckerThe Nation In October 2003 employees at more than 800 chain supermarkets in California walked out of their jobs after management demanded pay cuts and a reduction in health insurance benefits. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 09:54:00

Bangalore Emerging as Most Preferred Real Estate Destination

Bangalore has emerged as a clear preference for sectors like office and retail, while coming a close third in the residential and hospitality according to Cushman & Wakefield, a retail estate research firm. In its report Cushman & Wakefield GRI India Real Estate Investment report 2009: ‘Survival to Revival - Indian realty sector on the path to recovery,’ the firm said that Bangalore is expected to see the highest demand for office space in the period 2009 - 2013 with approximately 34 million sq.ft. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 05:08:23

Behind the Gambit in the A.S.C.-Xerox Deal

DealBook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin makes the case that the uptick in the stock market and the slow return of credit are reviving the mergers and acquisitions market. The question, however, is not whether the M.&A. market will revive, but instead whether everyone will simply go back to the old party and its bad practices. The question arises yet again as a result of Darwin Deason’s latest gambit. Mr. Deason is the chairman of Affiliated Computer Services, and owns a near-controlling stake in the company. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 20:26:36

Five Things: Why the Fed is Irrelevant to Your Trades

1. The Federal Reserve is Irrelevant… for Now Well, that was fun wasn’t it? All that waiting and waiting yesterday afternoon, and for what? Just a brief statement churned out from a laser printer, an obligatory nod to “weak economic activity.” But there’s more here than meets the eye, and it’s not about what the Federal Reserve will do, it’s about what they can’t do; namely, stimulate credit expansion. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 14:01:50

WHAT? You KNOW Something’s Wrong When Industry VETS Admit There are TOO many Old Men in the Industry!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 6:00 am and is filed under Industry News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. CommentHot:You know, when I come across a great story in another trade, and the only ones I really read are Radio Business Report, Radio Ink and Radio-Info, I, unlike the other pussy trades, will give them credit. There was a GREAT story in RBR yesterday about the lack of new blood in the industry. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 13:00:54

Bill Gross Investing in Long-Dated Treasuries

Bloomberg reports that PIMCO’s Bill Gross is exchanging his corporate bonds for longer-dated government securities out of concern for deflation. This is a theme that we have written extensively about during the course of the year. Bill Gross , who runs the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co. , said he’s been buying longer maturity Treasuries in recent weeks amid a re-emergence of deflation concern. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 14:31:19

Latest News in Debt Consolidation - Sept 17, 2009

Nortel Obtains U.S. and Canadian Court Approvals for Sale Agreements … - MS… 16 Sep 2009 at 4:47pm Nortel(1) Networks Corporation (OTCBB: NRTLQ) announced that at a joint hearing today it, its principal operating subsidiary Nortel Networks Limited, and certain of its other subsidiaries including Nortel Networks Inc., obtained orders from the … Research and Markets: Hungary -Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband & Forecasts - TMCnet 16 Sep 2009 at 5:55am Dublin, Sep 16, 2009 (M2 [more...]

Date: 2009-09-17 18:18:46

War Made Easy_Brainwashing…Why a Global Economic Deluge Looms June 2006!!

  War Made Easy… http://www.warmadeeasythemovie.org/ War Made Easy  Reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 14:26:05

Full Court Press by digby Oh Goody. More bipartisan establishment institutions join with Pete Peterson to give the Republicans and the Blue Dogs excuses to ensure that the government can't do what's necessary to stave off a depression: To modernize an outdated Congressional budget process in light of the daunting economic challenges facing the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 04:51:00

The Global Carry Trade and the Crimes of Patriots

This article was submitted by The Institutional Risk Analyst “In a government of laws, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipotent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. If government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 15:37:24

Corporate Greed: Opposition to Employee Free Choice Act

Pundits, journalists and even economists have strained to find the reasons for our nation’s economic meltdown, ... on their homes or piling up credit card debt for non-essentials, millions of Americans had no choice ... stumbling over tortured concepts like “structured investment vehicles” and “collateralized debt.” [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:29:58

Japanese Rating Agency Chief Recommends Marshall Plan for US

In part because the Japanese corporate bond market is no where near as deep and large as its US counterpart, ... . Treasury yields, which are near record lows, may fall further without debt relief, making ... . And they have met their Kyoto agreement greenhouse gas reduction targets too . When one mentions tax cuts [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 04:44:28

Euro Telecom Giants Swap Numbers, Agree Mega Merger

Euro Telecom Giants Swap Numbers, Agree Mega Merger by Martin Denholm, Senior Editor It’s Friday night… French telecom firm Orange is standing at one corner of the bar, sipping a fine Bordeaux. Its German rival T-Mobile is propped up at the other, slugging down a hearty Hefeweizen. Their eyes lock. The deal is on. Before you know it, the two have swapped numbers and arranged to get together. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 20:54:03

Xerox Shares Plunge 15% On ACS Deal

Shares of Xerox fell about 15% in Monday trading on concerns that the company's plan for a multibillion dollar acquisition of outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services could expose the imaging giant to significant debt and integration problems.Xerox shares were off 14.86% Monday, to $7.68. ACS shares rose 13.76%, to $53.75. Xerox announced a deal, initially valued at $6.4 billion, to buy out ACS prior to the opening of financial markets Monday. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 20:40:15

Nortel Bankruptcy Petition

U.S. subsidiaries of Canadian parent Nortel Networks Corporation plopped into Delaware bankruptcy court today.  NNC itself said it plans to file ( ... after thorough consultation with its advisors and extensive consideration of all other alternatives. This process will allow Nortel to deal decisively with its cost and debt burden, to effectively [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:14:49

A stiff premium for false choices

At a Thursday public forum in Louisville, Gov. Steve Beshear's Chief of Staff Adam Edelen elevated the government hysteria for higher taxes by saying ... involved improving our future and that of our children?The problem is that this overblown rhetoric simply ... and that of our children more than they did their ability to win the next election, we [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:36:00

Stringer Bell Turns to Legitimate Office Work

Variety has revealed that Michael Scott will have a new enemy on The Office later this season: Idris Elba, ... in six episodes later this season. Details are slim on his plot line, other than he’ll play a no-nonsense ... , you’ve paid off your debt for starring in Obsessed . A half-season part in a funny television [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:55:45

Folly of relying on corporate banking sector for money supply into society

The following letter by Alistair McConnachie, editor of Prosperity UK was the lead letter in The Scotsman newspaper on Monday 12 January 2009, ... people, in order to provide our economy with new money, demonstrates the reality of our debt-based ... into our society (”So what if nothing works?” 9 Jan).The real solution lies in enabling the Bank of England [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:55:54

Re-coupled Vengence: From Downturn to Implosion Risks ?

We've spent a bunch of time on the US economic outlook and the news, as you'd expect, continues to move from bad to worse ... the shallowness of the analysts involved grasp. But that's no longer the problem. Accelerating worldwide ... for the European schadenfreude that this was "just" a US problem. Developing Countries They also issued [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:20:15

Get the new car with a taxpayer funded loan

Brown and Darling have gone mad, surely?The idea that they are borrowing £trillions and charging the cost to us is bad enough, but to then offer the same money back to us in the form of a loan is not just bizarre it’s almost ... in South Shields, can no longer afforded the loan repayments on their current vehicle, as many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 09:19:15

Is Debt Management the only solution?

by Phillip Evans Are we in the UK drowning in Debt? According to the insurer AXA, some 11.6 million people (25 per cent of the adult population) ... are reported to be struggling to cope with mounting credit card bills and just over a million people ... respectively. The credit crunch could be blamed for the increase in corporate and personal insolvency [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:18:26

Posts about ACORN as of September 28, 2009

Massive Voter Fraud In NY linked to ACORN - electionjournal.org 09/29/2009 The Working Families Party and local Democratic Party Officials are at the center of a massive voter fraud scandal in Troy, NY. According to the Times Union : Dozens of forged and fraudulent absentee ballots from people registered to vote on the Working Families Party line were filed in the Sept. 15 primary elections in Troy. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 05:45:28

Hamilton’s Counterfeit Capitalism

Daily Article by George F. Smith | As we await Bush’s replacement to straighten our wayward lives, it’s crucial to understand how we got here and why policy makers are so determined to do the wrong thing. Austrian economics explains why their policies are flawed, but no one with a voice seems to care [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:36:00

China to Relax Bad Debt Rules to Encourage Lending

In another sign that China's slump is serious enough to evoke crisis responses from the officialdom, ... . The objective is to encourage banks to continue to extend credit to borrowers experiencing short-term ... ,” said Liao Qiang, the rating company’s Beijing-based analyst, in an interview. “Governments tend [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 06:19:21

Asian stocks plunge on US retail sales, bank fears

Asian stocks tumbled Thursday, with benchmarks in Japan and Hong Kong dropping 4 percent or more, on gloomy U.S ... worries about the financial system. Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s biggest bank, on Wednesday reported ... Everybody is worried the global recession will hurt bank earnings because of bad debt,” said Francis [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 04:33:00

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