"Capitalist Fools"
What caused the crisis? Joe Stiglitz says it was “system failure” based upon a single, incorrect belief: Capitalist Fools, by Joseph E ... . One was ... to allow big investment banks to increase their debt-to-capital ratio (from 12:1 to 30 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 20:51:00
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Take Control of Your Finances Part 7: Set Goals
Last month, I began writing about the process of taking control of one’s own financial condition ... about step 6, getting out of debt. Eliminating the money you owe to other people and companies ... . If you have debt, you can begin the next part of the process, setting goals, before you finish [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 19:00:43
You Can Find A Debt Cure But You Must Change Your Lifestyle To Save Money
I have talked to a lot of people over the years about debt problems and debt solutions and sometimes people are surprised to discover there is a possible debt cure. The cure for your debts will depend on your circumstances but it will always resolve around careful management of your money. If you want a debt cure you have to take your debt [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 17:12:59
Homoeopathic medicine
I'm certain that ages ago I wrote a post called "economic homeopathy" ... the wrong colours or shooting someone as a debt repayment is far too common, where the establishment blames ... where I asked whether increasing the nation's debt was really the answer to the problems caused [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 13:50:00
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
How "Something For Nothing" Ideas Become Policy
Leaders all over the world are now in an Undeniable Shift to Keynes even though every such attempt in history has failed ... a generation with having to pay off British debt.Jürgen Stark, an executive board member of the European [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 08:49:00
Roberts, Rafer
Website Plastic Farm #1 Now Available! $2.95 When something reminds me of Eddie Campbell in any way, it’s a good thing ... some advice about attempting an escape. In other words, great stuff for a second issue, because now I can’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 17:51:49
FriendFinder isn’t likely to find any pals on Wall Street; Needs IPO to pay debt
FriendFinder isn’t likely to find any pals on Wall Street; Needs IPO to pay debt Posted by Larry Dignan @ 5:09 am Categories: General, ... a billion in debt in an equity market that stinks. Simply put, FriendFinder is launching an IPO Hail Mary ... in potential IPO proceeds will go to paying off FriendFinder’s almost $450 million in debt. For the nine [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 13:09:51
Obama’s Wall Street Buddies
There is no way Wall Street was going to let a new President preside over sweeping changes in the financial industry without making its presence ... relationships. He advised Citigroup on its $6 billion acquisition of Sears’ credit card unit in 2003 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:53:00
Update on us
I didn’t get a chance to put our Christmas picture on so I thought I would share it today in an update ... to concentrate so hard to make sure everything was entered correctly. If there were one thing I could cure [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:36:15
Rising Default Risk In Pro-Forma Commercial Loans
The bond market is reeling from rising default risk in Pro-Forma Commercial Mortgages ... on estimates that rents and hotel revenue would rise, and then were packaged with similar debt into a $1.16 ... that the Westin Portfolio and Promenade debt may be the first of many of those loans to default sent yields [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 03:34:00
Quackery Is alive and well in 2009!
Many physicians summoned to treat a serious illness in 1796 would prescribe "bleeding" the patient to "remove the evil toxins" causing the patient's symptoms. If the first physician failed to affect a cure he would be dismissed and another practitioner would be summoned who would generally initiate another round [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 03:49:00
Seven most horrible things about Bush presidency
Last update: 11:37 a.m. EST Jan. 14, 2009 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The remarkable thing about President George W. Bush wasn't that he was a horrible chief executive; it's that he was horrible in so many ways. Contrary to the president's own assessment of his tenure earlier this week, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 07:52:16
Fiscal Insanity Virus Rapidly Spreading The Globe (Part 2)
This post is a continuation of Dangerous Virus Rapidly Spreading The Globe (Part 1).If you have not yet done so, please read part 1. The symptoms of the FIV disease are complex. Part 1 addresses the symptoms and part 2 below continues with more symptoms and a discussion about preventative measures and cures [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 18:04:00
3 Major Ways to Scrimp and Save in an Economic Recession
When the economy is growing and consumer confidence is high, it is common not to think twice about saving money and reducing expenses ... into an emergency mode in which debt will escalate or savings will be depleted. In this emergency [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 16:30:47
Economics / Macro-economics is taught in the classroom - must be studied in the real world -
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aNutPC0c67PA video on bloomberg of Philip Manduca - aired US 3.44 amET - 01-14-09This man actually showed very accurate insight into the current situation during his interview last night (3.44 a.m. here) on bloomberg from London [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:52:28
Social Mood Will Define The Future
Boomers have known only inflationary or reflationary conditions for most, if not all of their conscious lives ... For Bernanke.Greenspan had the wind of consumers' willingness and ability to go deeper in debt at his back [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 17:23:00
New Year Messages
Three more days and it will be Year 2009! Here are some fun new year messages I compiled that you can send to all your friends. A religious New Year message: New Year begins, let us pray, that it will be a year with new Peace, New Happiness, and abundance of new friends, God bless you through out the new Year [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 19:17:28
Will the Obama Plan Work?
While I have noted that I like the Obama Plan (or used to, see below) ... not as expected. Principally, I don't think the government going into debt to inspire us to spend money is the answer to too much debt induced spending. It is just shifting the debt load [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 09:11:58
The End of Trade's Golden Age
Put Bernie Madoff on the public payroll! Today, we're going to give the feds some advice. Many will find our advice repulsive ... a bigger problem. And in Spain, people are so desperate for work they're joining the army [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 22:25:25
Leverage Is an 8 Letter Word
Leverage Is an 8 Letter Word November 21, 2008 By John Mauldin Leverage is an eight-letter word, which the markets now regard as twice as bad as the two four-letter words debt and pain (or fill ... of debt, with a lot of it in the bank loan space. In the “old” days of the last few years, banks [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 15:27:04
Put Bernie Madoff at the Treasury!
Put Bernie Madoff on the public payroll! Today, we're going to give the feds some advice. Many will find our advice repulsive ... it was becoming a bigger problem. And in Spain, people are so desperate for work they're joining the army [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 04:52:06
Money Hacks Carnival #39
Looks like another another miscue in the Carnival Land ... for your participation. carnival Photo by Meagen via Flickr Credit and Debt Five Ways to Help You Quickly Eliminate Credit Card Debt posted at CreditShout. Should You Pay a Debt Consolidation [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 03:25:15
Save your candles – the Dark Ages are coming - Is the Israeli military funded by Saudi Arabia to attack Gaza ?
Save your candles – the Dark Ages are coming by Justin RaimondoA new year, and a new president – plenty of grist for my prediction mill, or, at least, ... . The trillions President-elect Obama plans on spending to “cure” .pdf our economic malaise will prove [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 19:11:44
Why The IMF’s Decision To Agree A Lavian Bailout Programme Without Devaluation Is A Mistake
The IMF finally announced it’s Latvia “bailout” plan on Friday. The plan involves lending about €1.7 billion ($2.4 billion) ... domestic policies, with the support of a broad political and social consensus,” said IMF Managing [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 08:48:58
Jonathan Lipson's Auto Immune: The Detroit Bailout and the Shadow Bankruptcy System
Date: 2008-12-19 20:25:11
Your Money or Your Life 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Your Money or Your Life 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence Revised and Updated for the 21st ... and examples particularly relevant today—it tells you how to: • get out of debt and develop savings • ... , to get out of debt etc.. I also loved how smooth/flexible was the cover and paper inside [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 10:28:01
Fiscal Insanity Virus Rapidly Spreading The Globe (Part 1)
Warning: A dangerous new virus, FIV, is rapidly spreading the globe.This part 1 of a very long post. The symptoms of the disease are complex ... on monetary policy. We’ll try and take up some of the slack.”“It’s a very, very fast moving situation [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 08:01:00
Voinovich Announces Retirement, GOP Problems Mount
Voinovich Announces Retirement, GOP Problems MountOhio Sen. George Voinovich is retiring in 2010, the fourth Republican to announce he is stepping aside at the end of his term.Voinovich announced his retirement this morning after a weekend filled with speculation that he was planning to step aside [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:00:06
The World Economy is in the Worst Shape Since WWII
It's Monday morning. The world economy is calling in sick. A Bloomberg report confirms last week's news: the U.S ... a long time to work its way out. You don't cure a bubble in five or six months... It takes five or six [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:38:08
They really hate Vaclav Klaus, don't they? (4)
Here's part two of that letter----------------------------Equally dubious and illogical is ... to grasp the roots of the crisis is downright Palinesque; and his cure, which is to “repeal various labour [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 19:25:00
A Shadowlands Dispatch: A Well-Aimed Communion With Our Heavenly Father
A Shadowlands Dispatch: A Well-Aimed Communion With Our Heavenly Father At Five Points we are about to enter our annual Week of Prayer … a week dedicated to individual and corporate reorientation of life Godward as we seek God in our closets and collectively [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 19:22:32
Image: The AtlanticHere’s a pretty cool graphic by the Atlantic depicting the changes we have seen during the Bush Administration ... Debt - 2000 - $683.7 Billion / 2008 - $965.6 BillionManufacturing Employment growth - 2000 - 2.9 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 20:14:29
T’ganu’s debt, deficit soars despite return of royalties
T’ganu’s debt, deficit soars despite return of royalties k-terengganu-by-election-002 The oil royalties may have been returned, but the state’s debt has been rising and it posted ... interesting, the state government’s debt to the federal government has been rising during the same [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 11:31:06
More debt the cure for debt crisis?
More debt the cure for debt crisis? Posted November 25, 2008 8:18 AM The Swamp ... all manner of assets, including mortgages. Continue reading "More debt the cure for debt crisis?" » ... is too much debt. The world is "deleveraging" that is, shrinking its debt levels, which has led [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 13:59:01
8 Steps to Cure Financial Insanity
8 Ways to Cure Financial Insanity This is a guest post by Matt from Pizza For A Dream Insanity - doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results Today’s focus, most [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 05:32:57
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) VIDEO
Secretary Rice delivers opening remarks for the release of The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) ... Department photo by Michael Gross.Release of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Fifth ... to release the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief 2009, the Annual Report to Congress [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 01:50:29
5 tips to get out of foreclosure
by Doc Schmyz Your house is the last thing that you want to loose ... is sold to a third party. The proceeds will go to the mortgage lender as a settlement for the debt [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 18:48:36
Smoking lung cancer - No-smoking law a breath of fresh air - Sandy Post
No-smoking law a breath of fresh air - Sandy Post No-smoking law a breath of fresh air Sandy Post, OR - Jan 13, ... places brought a breath of fresh air to Oregon. … Sleep may be best cure for the common cold - International Herald Tribune Sleep may be best cure for the common cold International Herald Tribune [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 07:00:34
OP/ED: Obama displayed ignorance while promising miracles
Jump to CommentsNancy Thorner American Thinker January 08, ... . Rush Limbaugh on his radio program in the aftermath of Obama’s address likened Obama’s cure [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 13:00:18
Panic! (A vision of the future)
... and old garbage since the 70’s and selling it to you. There is no shortage! National debt? Ha! We’ve [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 13:30:29
No Such Thing As A Pain-Free Recession
No Such Thing As A Pain-Free Recession Jennifer Rubin - 12.27 ... the credit markets, create jobs and make the recession as shallow and brief as possible [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 19:03:13
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