Should Budgetary Revenue Projections be Deliberately Pessimistic?
Should Budgetary Revenue Projections be Deliberately Pessimistic? ... pleasant surprises – they benefit from more tax and nontax revenues than planned, which allows debt ... in the short-term. This can result in public debt increasing to a level higher than desirable, assuming [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 07:00:03
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Some Good News Peaking Through?
I've noticed a few piece of good news starting to peak through, though still a lot of bad news out there ... , piecing together the story from old news clippings. It provides a reader with news in chronological order ... raised $152.6 billion by selling debt to investors [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 18:07:17
Are we underestimating the seriousness of the economic crisis?
Before we think about future, we should know what economic experts said before Lehman bothers collapse and share market crash in 2008 ... Pickens. 8. “There is growing evidence that parts of debt markets are coming back to life” – Peter Coy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:45:00
Dandelion SaladBy Mike Whitney January 16, 2009 “Information Clearinghouse“There’s no guarantee that Obama’s stimulus package will work, but there is growing consensus that something has to be done…and fast! The economy is contracting faster than anytime since the 1930s [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 02:25:29
The Intelligent Investor: A Comparison of Four Listed Companies
This is the fourteenth in a weekly series of articles providing a chapter-by-chapter in-depth “book club” reading of Benjamin Graham’s ... their time” paying attention to it are missing a key part of Graham’s message. Chapter 13 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 14:00:45
Supply-side economics falls down and can’t get up
In July of 2006 we wrote: Supply-side, trickle-up economics is hurting wage growth, costing jobs, putting people in debt, ... by about 2 percent during Bush’s tenure, the most tepid growth over any eight-year span since data collection began [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:23:40
Personal Balance Sheet, December 2008
The stock market found a way to trash my net worth goal last year. Had the S&P index and my company stock increased in 2008 like they did in 2007, I would have surpassed my net worth goal for the year. Investments have a way of being volatile over short periods of time, and that was the case in 2008 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 15:00:14
The Friday Line: 10 for 2010
The Friday Line: 10 for 2010The impact of President-elect Barack Obama's rapid rise through the political ranks -- elected senator in 2004 and president four years later -- is already being felt in the campaign world as scads of would-be senators and governors are emerging in the early days of the 2010 cycle Call it the Obama effect -- an [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 15:30:00
HOW TO GET GREAT CREDIT REPAIR RESULTS
HOW TO GET GREAT CREDIT REPAIR RESULTS January 15, 2009 By: Admin Category: Credit Repair, ... , such as furniture store loans, are bad. If you have store cards or consumer debt you should work on paying it off. Now, let’s chat about managing those good mainstream credit cards for credit repair success [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 20:33:08
Software that has enhanced this blog and my blook on outside counsel
My blook on outside counsel managementcould not have been published without a range of software. Word, the sina qua non software. Every word in the blog and blog owes a debt to Word. Dragon Naturally Speaking for dictation ... and its insights; and Nov. 22, 2008: analysis of first 3,700 posts.). VBA, to accelerate sorting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 12:02:52
Some words for NESTA Investments
In a recent TechCrunch article, Nick Halstead of fav.or.it wrote some observations on the government’s new debt-related support interventions for small and medium businesses. For odd reasons, though, he concluded the article with a brief “scathing” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:58:26
The Simple Dollar: Best of 2008
2008 was the second full year of existence for The Simple Dollar ... Coupons Worthwhile Online Personal Finance Analysis Tools: Some Thoughts on Quicken Online, Mint ... : A Visual Guide and Cost Analysis An Interview With Amy Dacyczyn, The Author of The Tightwad Gazette [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 20:00:24
TheCramerReport.com's Mad Money Recap - January 15, 2009
TheCramerReport.com's Mad Money Recap - January 15, 2009 Submitted by just another Cramerholic on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 20:08. Segment 1: Cramer spent this segment explaining why there are still problems in the market, especially in the financials with the new punitive strings attached to taking TARP funds. Bank of America (BAC) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 01:08:34
How to Hide Debt with Pension Accounting
Pensions involve promises made to employees that if they work for the company over some minimum period of time, ... , which distorts the income statement; proper analysis requires unsmoothing these items. Presumably [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 06:38:47
Why So Little Self-Recrimination Among Economists?
Why is it that economics is a Teflon discipline, seemingly unable to admit or recognize its errors? ... well know, prices rose at an accelerating pace), rising levels of consumer debt, stagnant average [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 09:21:07
Galleon Group (Raj Rajaratnam): Hedge Fund Portfolio Tracking - 13F Filing Q3 2008
This is the 3rd Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund portfolio tracking series. Before reading this update, make sure you check out the preface to the series we're doing on Hedge Fund 13F filings here. Next up is Galleon Group. Galleon was founded by Raj Rajaratnam in 1997 and currently manages in excess of $7 billion [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:01:00
Cheering Gold’s New One-Month Low
Good news everyone. Gold has reached a one-month low. In fact, February gold futures on Comex fell the most in six weeks ... . And under that scenario, the cost of paying off debts would rise massively as cash gained value. Old [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 19:10:21
Ternus delivers State of the Judiciary
Iowa Chief Justice Marsha Ternus -- the state's first female chief justice -- delivered the 2009 State of the Judiciary address to the Iowa Legislature this morning. In her two previous addresses before lawmakers, Ternus has successfully pressed for more help with juvenile courts and juvenile offenders [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 21:19:26
A Times / Atlantic Smackdown
A Times / Atlantic Smackdown Writing in the January/February edition of the Atlantic, ... or the paper will default on some $400million in debt. With more than $1billion in debt already ... (the company's debt was recently reduced to junk status), the paper's future doesn't look good [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 18:43:07
The American Crisis
US payrolls were slashed by 524,000 jobs in December and by 1.9 million in the last four months of 2008. All told, 2 ... the country's ledger in a near eleven trillion dollar debt and throw at least 7.2% of us out of work [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 02:54:26
Economic Potpourri January 11, 2009
The barrage of noteworthy economic news continues into the second week of the new year. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days.Banks may need to raise fresh capital in '09: WhitneyU.S. banks will have to raise fresh capital in 2009, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 10:59:00
Rants -- January 15, 2009
Sorry everybody, I've been lax in getting this first for 2009 edition out. Here it is. ( ... Christmas and Happy New Year posted at Debt Prison, saying, "Not surprisingly, the very group of bankers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 20:11:33
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Date: 2009-01-15 14:00:39
A Look at What the Next President's Chief Economic Advisor Wrote About Tax Policy
by cactusA Look at What the Next President's Chief Economic Advisor Wrote About Tax PolicySince Christina Romer is gonna be Obama's Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, its worth revisiting her work. Now, I'm not an academic, so I don't read all that many papers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 10:17:00
links for 2009-01-14
Snarkmarket: How Nate Silver Brought Sanity To Polling Kevin: From Howard Weaver on Twitter ... USelections polling journalism analysis) Web 2.0, Revenue Models and Profitability : The Drama 2.0 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 11:29:45
Seatlepi.com: US economy - Analysis: Obama's toughest fiscal crises lie ahead - by Jim Kuhnhenn
For the complete report from the seattlepi.nwsource.com click on this link US economy - Analysis: Obama's toughest fiscal crises lie ahead - by Jim ... . Taming the nation's rising deficits and debt and bringing entitlement programs to heel? Good luck [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 13:58:50
Paul Krugman: The Obama Gap
Is the incoming administration's proposed economic recovery plan large enough to get the job done? ... , the Congressional Budget Office came out with its latest analysis of the budget and economic outlook [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 08:33:00
On Althusser and the RCP in Decline
This continues a discussion started in “The RCP’s Debt to Louis Althusser: Why It Matters.” It is also intended as a beginning response to Bill Martin’s “recoil theory” regarding the RCP’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:01:49
Anti-Semitism and Subordination Part II: The Myth of Jewish Hyper-Power
A guest-series by David Schraub of The Debate Link PRIOR POSTS IN THE SERIES: ... . One thing that became clear in the last post was the need to clarify what the project of this series [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 02:52:48
Oldie but Goodie - An Article about Preferreds
A friend of mine sent this to me. It is an old article about investing in Preferreds ... /research/2001/features010424.htm By Todd N. Lebor Even though preferred stocks are listed as equity [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 06:57:52
TALKING ABOUT “HARD CURRENCIES” ON THE INSIDE VIEW PODCAST
TALKING ABOUT “HARD CURRENCIES” ON THE INSIDE VIEW PODCAST Posted in January 15th, ... , foreign currencies and short-term debt instruments denominated in something other than greenbacks. “ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 01:58:13
Advice To Pres. Obama (#2): Yes We Can, But Will We?
We are at a major crossroads in the history of our nation and our world ... flows) - and 2)instead of issuing this new debt, all the world's billionaires and nations in monetary [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:49:43
Hutchison meets with Kirk, supports his USTR nomination
09:49 AM | Comments (0) The Bush Legacy by the Numbers: National debt increases Texas on the Potomac is looking back at the Bush presidency ... in the national debt during each presidency. Increase in the national debt during each presidency [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 15:49:35
by Dr. Ellen Hodgson Brown featured writerDandelion SaladEllen’s postwebofdebt ... the whole problem and create a new, healthy, parallel system [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 22:30:40
Peer to Peer Lending - Status (January 2009)
... . Peer to Peer Lending has become a viable tool for borrowing money from a collection of individuals [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 12:49:29
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