Words from the (investment) wise 9.27.09

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009) After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 12:05:27

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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

Credit Card Debt Relief

by Glen Pearson The secret is creditors do not want you to have any plan at all with your money. Credit card debt relief starts with new habits. The first habit to start paying cash for everyday things. Do not charge your grocery bill and you’ll start spending less. Habits are easy, if you just start them. A new way of thinking is, the next time your DVD player breaks, save up for a new one. There is nothing wrong with watching reruns on TV until you do that. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 11:37:53

Are Bad Credit Debt Consolidation Loans Difficult To Obtain?

Amazon.de Widgets Bad credit Debt Consolidation Loans are they still available? This article looks at whether or not the consolidation loan for people with bad credit is still available.Don’t take my word for it, but bad credit consolidation loans are rare…very rare, but the situation is improving slowly.It never used to be the case, but the decline of the economy over the past two years, due to the global fall out from the sub prime mortgage fiasco, has meant that lenders are reluctant to lend [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 11:56:59

Debts Missing From Your Credit Report? Don't Count It Out Just Yet.

One of the top rules of managing debt is that all consumers should regularly be checking their credit reports for mistakes and inaccurate information. Mistakes by credit reporting agencies and creditors are common but typically it is minor information that is being reported incorrectly. However, there may be a rare time that a consumer is very conscious of an outstanding debt that doesn't seem to be listed on a credit report. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 10:00:00

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

Immediate Credit Card Debt Relief

September 29, 2009 | By Ross Taylor In Finance | by Glen PearsonThe secret is creditors do not want you to have any plan at all with your money. Credit card debt relief starts with new habits. The first habit to start paying cash for everyday things. Do not charge your grocery bill and you’ll start spending less. Habits are easy, if you just start them. A new way of thinking is, the next time your DVD player breaks, save up for a new one. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 16:46:32

Words from the (Investment) Wise (Sept. 27, 2009)

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 14:33:29

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

Discover How To Make The Best Deals With Original Creditors

By Michael Redbourn There are lots of articles around that explain how to talk or not talk to debt collectors and many people think that they should handle negotiations with the original creditor in the same way, and that's absolutely wrong. The original lender doesn't have to help you at all, but if you handle the negotiations in the right way you might save yourself around 45% of your total debt, and you might get the very best comment on your credit report too. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 01:02:09

China Tests Global Demand for Renminbi Bonds

China started selling renminbi-denominated sovereign bonds in Hong Kong for the first time on Monday, testing international demand for its currency with the $879 million issue as it moved to widen the renminbi’s exposure and appeal to markets abroad.Bank of China and Bank of Communications, the two lenders managing the 6 billion renminbi sale, said in news releases on Monday that the two-year bonds would have a yield of 2.25 percent, and the three-year bonds would yield 2.7 percent — higher rates [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 11:10:25

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009)

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 07:51:48

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009)

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 07:51:48

Greenback slumped on the canvas

Bernanke & Co. on Tuesday signaled to the financial markets that they were hell-bent on pursuing an “inflate or die” approach to rescuing the ... and a scramble for dollars to repay USD-denominated debt. The deleveraging process effectively created a short position in the greenback. But more recently, US-specific worries concerned with public deb [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 11:01:19

Why Can't You Ever Make On-Time Payments?

By Tisha Tolar How frustrating is it to pay all of your bills each month when you finally get a minute to sit down and take care of things, ... are no longer as forgiving about grace periods and payment timelines. It is now more important ... . You need to change your financial habits to eliminate late fees and help you on your way to living a debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:28:05

The Poverty Business

Sorry if this appears to be an older article, and not latest headlines, just thought it was interesting - loki The Poverty Business Inside U.S ... into Byrider, Tsosie drove off, jubilant, in a 1999 Saturn subcompact she bought entirely on credit ... access to credit has put cars, computers, credit cards, and even homes within reach for many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:45:24

The Year of Yield

With 2008 having proved a humbling experience for most of the market, many investment managers are embracing a strategy that gives them, at least, some guarantee for returns. And that means a focus on corporate debt, which offers yields at high spreads when compared with government debt, as well as dividend-paying stocks, many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 17:48:49

The Year of Yield

With 2008 having proved a humbling experience for most of the market, many investment managers are embracing a strategy that gives them, at least, some guarantee for returns. And that means a focus on corporate debt, which offers yields at high spreads when compared with government debt, as well as dividend-paying stocks, many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 18:59:12

6 Money Management Software For Personal Finance (Freelancer’s Special)

Being a freelancer is not easy and more so in these troubled times of worldwide recession ... get themselves under debt by making certain bad decisions or investments. Lets take a look ... which was first introduced back in 1991. It can be used to keep record of loans, mortgages [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:41:12

Someone at Credit Suisse has a wicked sense of humor

It really is a thing of beauty (via Bloomberg): Credit Suisse Group AG's investment bank has found a new way to reduce the risk of losses from ... bonuses. The bank will use leveraged loans and commercial mortgage- backed debt, some of the securities ... compensation packages, people familiar with the matter said. The new policy applies only to managin [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 22:08:35

Credit Crisis Sequel, Global Bank Bailout, Emerging Markets Still a Buy?, Gas Wars and More!

by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Ghosts of the fourth quarter haunt global financials… so begins the second act of the credit saga Even the IMF needs a loan… $150 billion to back up struggling emerging markets Not so fast, says Mayer… emerging markets will remain drivers of global growth Jim Nelson with an industry likely to boom [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:36:46

Money 101 for screenwriters

Most of the questions I answer on this site are from readers who hope to become professional screenwriters. A small percentage of these readers will succeed, and suddenly face a new category of questions about What Happens Next. Having watched former assistants and other young writers cross the line into professional work, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 19:02:50

STICK TO YOUR GUNS, PEOPLE!

From the front page in today’s Wall Street Journal comes, Big Slide in 401(k)s Spurs Calls for Change. Here’s a quotes (WARNING: some of this might make you mad): The stock-market rout has ignited a crisis of confidence for millions of Americans who manage their own retirement savings through 401(k) plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:10:19

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

A Commonly Believed Myth: The Little Guy Just Can’t Get Ahead

photo credit: tarahm ... to be mired in debt and despair.  They have a distinct difference is an attitude and outlook. Those ... -out. Are there legitimate situations where people can’t get out of debt because of medical bills, addictions or because [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 02:01:28

Can You Survive on One Income?

People are losing their jobs left, right and centre. I’ve been overwhelmed with the letters from people who have recently been pounced on by the Unemployment Monster. And even people who still have a job have watched pieces of their income evaporate through pay-cuts or cuts in hours worked. Corporate North America is cutting back and Joanna Average is feeling the bite. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 09:45:34

Do it yourself Credit Repair

by Rob Kosberg You have reached the point in your life that you realize that you need to make some drastic changes in how you manage your spending ... , pay as much more than minimum as you can. Pay the minimum on the others. When the first is paid off, start applying that same amount to the next debt in line. It won’t be a fast process. To immerse [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:40:40

Coming Soon: Hollywood Analysts Predict 2009 the Year of the Wall Street Villain at the Box Office

Get your popcorn ready - that is if you like seeing the rich portrayed as bad guys and getting punished for their indiscretions ... News managing editor Tyler Mathisen that Hollywood is greenlighting a spate of films featuring Wall ... is about the International Bank of Credit or something like this," Boorstin said. "And it's coming out in February [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 17:25:56

Managing Your Credit Cards Responsibly

September 27, 2009 | By Tawana Rashing In Finance | by Tawana RashingCredit cards can easily go from being your best friend to your worst enemy. If your credit is any good at all, you probably get a ton of pre-approval notices from different companies. They?re offering you the world in a credit card ? no APR, huge credit limits, awesome purchase bonuses and more. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 17:25:27

Legal Helpers vs Transforming Debt Into Wealth Course - A review of two popular debt elimination programs

Transforming Debt Into Wealth Review A person deep in difficult financial situation and is desperate for a solution tends to grab the first ... elimination. In his program called “Transforming Debt Into Wealth” he will teach you to focus ... their exclusive services to help people get out of their debt.  Depending on the type and amount of debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 07:35:31

DrumBeat: December 18, 2008

Oil drops 9 pct as demand outlook overshadows OPEC NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. crude prices dropped more than 9 percent to $36 a barrel Thursday as slumping demand and swelling U.S. inventories offset OPEC's record supply cut agreement. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday agreed to cut output by 2 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 13:42:11

Group Discussions : Jeans, Novels, and More!

There’s a lot happening in the Geezeo community, and we like to make it a bit easier to connect with other users.  Check out this weeks hot topics! ... and main credit card, but not my Macy’s card or my IRA account linked). The thing I like about this site most is the community aspect and the “marketplace” to find new bank, credit card and investment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 20:43:46

Don’t let Credit any Credit Card Company Keep you Down

by Denzel Abintenk Unfortunately it is very normal for people to get themselves into severe debt using their credit cards that they require the ... and quickly find yourself in exactly the same position again. Credit card debt is a vicious circle, once ... which encourages you to spend more. The best way to prevent credit card debt is to be cautious [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:27:27

Better Personal Finance Tips

Have you ever wondered why some people seem so financially sound? You might be surprised at the simple things you can do to be just like them ... to personal finance. Personal finance includes focuses like budgeting, retirement, savings and debt management ... people fail to budget and therefore they end up in debt and in financial trouble. People often [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 10:00:30

Families transform their finances in ‘U-Turn Challenge’

First Tech Credit Union is about to announce which households will be participating in its U-Turn Challenge ... participating families: Source and stability of income Type of debt Debt-to-income ratio Disposable income ... -determined categories: Debt reduction Savings increase Overall net worth increase Overall level [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 11:21:05

How to Deleverage Balance Sheets

Bouncing around trading desks: Credit Suisse is using a novel approach to deleverage its balance sheet…using its illiquid assets to pay bonuses; ... its real! Credit Suisse Group AG’s investment bank has found a new way to reduce the risk of losses ... bonuses. The bank will use leveraged loans and commercial mortgage- backed debt [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 19:00:02

You Don't Have To Juggle Many Things

Dealing with so many things can be really difficult. Usually, learning how to prioritize is what can help people who encounter this situation ... debt, utility debts, credit card debts and many others can be too much to juggle. A way to handle all these is debt consolidation. MyDebtConsolidationAdvice.com is a web site that can help people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:05:43

The Value of Reliable Information

At the Free Exchange Greenspan Roundtable: The Value of Reliable Information, by Mark Thoma, Greenspan Roundtable, The Economist: ... of the problems in financial markets than I think is warranted. Thus, rather than advocating robust solutions ... insurance and to enhance interbank liquidity by guaranteeing debt. Another emphasizes the importance [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 20:24:00

Guest Post: Obama Plan Is Bold, but Not Bold Enough

As details emerge about the incoming Obama administration’s stimulus plans, Peter Boone and Simon Johnson argue that proposals should be even bolder. Boone is chairman of Effective Intervention, a U.K.-based charity, and a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 09:09:48

Finances Can Be Overwhelming - But They Don’t Have To Be!

If you’re eyeball deep in debt, feeling overwhelmed, and not sure how to pick up and move forward, I’ve been there ... , and I had no control over anything. So, you see, the bankruptcy did eliminate my debt, but it didn’t fix ... been there too. To be honest with you, I took the easy way out of my debt - I declared bankruptcy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 23:07:56

Membership Has Fewer Rewards

For credit card-carrying Americans, the latest news from the economic crisis is good, then bad, then good again ... they had to, since credit card companies raised their interest rates even as personal income ... . Credit card and collections companies have started to accept that many Americans are flat broke [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:00:18

Littlewood on Superannuation

I blogged on Monday my thoughts on the fiscal crisis, and talked about the stupidity of borrowing money now, as a means of saving for the future. Michael Littlewood has sent me a response to my post, which I’m delighted to publish. Michael is an expert on superannuation policy and is with the Retirement Policy and Research Centre of Auckland [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 01:53:23

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

Tremblay: A Most Desperate Move by the Fed

Old Doom friend Rodrigue Tremblay is back with another thoughtful article ... monetary inflation and change deflation expectations at all costs through large-scale debt monetisation ... , in effect, is to announce that it is suspending the normal functioning of private credit and capital [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 07:01:52

Economic Potpourri December 30, 2008

The barrage of noteworthy economic news continues as we head into the new year. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days.Japan mulls scheme to buy bad loansJapan's government and central bank are considering a $110 billion scheme to buy bad loans and other financial assets from banks to ease a credit crunch [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 02:58:00

Studying Business Cycles: Economic Graphs of The Current Economic Cycle

Ever wonder how our current economic cycle ranks among other business cycles? Economic graphs and charts reveal some trends ... predictive, my brain can’t help but try to project the future from what we see here. What I found ... Portrayed In Cool Charts Here’s a subset of those charts (or graphs) I came across. The blue line on each [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 23:26:33

Christmas Potpourri and Holiday Shopping Update

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days.U.S. Store Traffic Fell 24% on Pre-Christmas WeekendU.S. retail store traffic fell 24 percent last weekend from a year earlier as deepened discounts failed to entice consumers to spend during what may be the [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 03:52:00

Economic Potpourri December 27, 2008

The barrage of noteworthy economic news continues through the holiday season ... or more weeks ago, had been counting on post-Christmas sales to help rescue what will probably ... - and credit-constrained than ever before. After a 25-year spending tsunami, they’ve shifted from spending [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 22:24:00

Government Finds Itself in Hole, Keeps Digging

Government Finds Itself in Hole, Keeps Digging: Caroline Baum Commentary by Caroline Baum Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- If it seems incongruous for elected officials to talk about budget discipline in the same breath as trillion-dollar deficits, it is. President-elect Barack Obama is being encouraged by economists of all stripes to err on the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:18:00

Forecasting The Current Recession

We all know that the current economic conditions are unlike anything we have ever seen before. This was a large reason why it took the folks responsible for identifying recessions so long to make the official announcement. It is very interesting to hear their reasoning behind the delay, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:23:03

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