How to Find a Buyout Candidate
On Monday morning, the sun was shining extra bright for one Southern Californian firm. The small specialized health care business of Advanced Medical Optics (NYSE: EYE) experienced a truly perfect day. At least, its investors did. You see, Abbott Laboratories announced [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 17:59:39
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The danger of prayer
I live with a kind of odd dichotomy. I’m a Christian; I believe the Bible is the inspired word of God ... to show. I easily forget the debt of grace I owe, and judge others too sternly. And I forget, or even ... it worked. 51-year-old inferior MI. Sudden ventricular fibrillation (for the non-medical, a dangerous [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 03:31:47
STIMULATE THIS!
STIMULATE THIS! So now it’s time for another bailout. The one last month didn’t do the trick, apparently. 800 billion wasn’t quiiiiite enough. We’re gonna have to try harder. Hey I got an idea for stimulating the economy. Everybody who reads this, go to www.garygraham.com and buy my damn book! (ACTING & Other Flying Lessons) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 19:58:57
Keynesian economics
There is one situation where Keynesian economics work. I should add that as I am a Keynesian supporter in a crude way ... and creating the self-feeding cycles we often see. Savings also reduce the “booms” as people save “ ... just to buy what they did the year before and debt is then the way you buy washers, furniture [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 22:02:21
Admitting When You’re Wrong
I’m just watching the outgoing American President George Walker Bush (or Dub’ya to all you down south) make his farewell address, and I do have say it was outstanding. Whatever you think or have to say about the guy, he is definitely a very confident and responsible man who is willing to take the fall for when he was wrong, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 03:56:00
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
Consolidate Your Debt!
Being a debt free citizen is really hard because of the financial crisis that was happenning right now all over the world that is why people are ... . car loan, housing loans, student loans and even credit cards dues. If you are in so much debt ... consolidation??? Because in debt consolidation they will give you a credit counselor wheren in they would [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:30:53
ENGAGEMENT, TEAMWORK AND INNOVATION: THE 50 BEST EMPLOYERS TO WORK FOR
To save you some searching time, look at number 33. RANK COMPANY LOCATION BUSINESS 1 Protegra Inc ... 6 Solutions 2 GO Inc. Mississauga Video-game distribution 7 DRN Commerce Inc. London, Ont. Debt-recovery ... . Appliance manufacturer 3 Gibraltar Solutions Inc. Mississauga Information technology systems [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 22:27:24
Bush Ties Stalin and Other Numbers From The Bush Years
Some numbers from Harper’s Index: Percentage of Bush’s first 189 appointees who also served in his father’s administration: 42 Minimum number of Bush appointees who have regulated industries they used to represent as lobbyists: 98 Years before becoming energy secretary that Spencer Abraham cosponsored a bill to abolish the Department of Energy: [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 00:13:05
News Roundup: LIC Raises its Stake in Over 11 Firms
Govt. Allows 100% FDI for Facsimile Editions of Foreign Newspapers - The government has allowed up to 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) ... 150-200 crore of loan repayments. Besides, the company is also looking to reschedule loans due ... banks to restructure loans taken for commercial real estate without turning them in to non-performing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 04:27:53
Peering into the Whirlpool - Pfizer
Today one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies announced it was cutting R&D staff (read article here) ... . So what does it say when Pfizer lays off R&D workers? Clearly, there's less faith in the company developing the new products which will pay off. Thus, the old "entry barrier" is clearly not as valuable [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 04:59:34
Rethinking The Early Mortgage Payoff
By Julie Rains The borrow-at-a-low-interest-rate-and-invest-to-get-greater-returns mentality was so embedded in our ... mortgage payoff question is: if you weren't using your money to pay off the mortgage, what would you be using the money for? Here are some alternative uses of extra cash: Pay off non-mortgage debt [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 15:41:42
No Ordinary Black Swan Event
by The Mogambo Guru It may be part of the "Season of Giving" for which December is famous, but readers are writing to helpfully suggest things, ... Gross National Debt now being $10.601 trillion, versus last year at this time when it was "only" $9.139 ... us, as a nation, another $1.462 trillion in debt in one year! One year! One! And all of this [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 21:55:59
The Choice Has Been Made, but the Consequences Don't Have to be the Same
America made a decision about two months ago. We all got together--or, actually, about 63 percent of us got together--and unfortunately decided that we wanted a nanny state and would march forth, hand-in-hand and foot-in-mouth, toward totalitarianism. In 1964, America faced a similar choice between Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 18:13:43
Broad Band(ages) aren’t the Solution
I’ll start off here by introducing myself – I’m the new intern here at nGenera (which I’m pretty excited about). As you can see from my bio, a lot of my interests have to do with politics, so I thought that would be a good jumping-off point for my first blog posting on the website. So here it is! [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 21:58:47
Broad Band(ages) aren’t the Solution
I’ll start off here by introducing myself – I’m the new intern here at nGenera (which I’m pretty excited about). As you can see from my bio, a lot of my interests have to do with politics, so I thought that would be a good jumping-off point for my first blog posting on the website. So here it is! [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 21:58:47
The college scam
It's actually worse than you probably think:Hickey got caught in an increasingly common trap in the nation's $85-billion student loan market. She borrowed heavily, presuming that all her debt was part of the federal student loan program ... of the student loan market. Private loans have no relation to the federal loan program, with one exception [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 14:00:00
Top 17 Reasons Homeowner’s Default On Their Mortgage
Top 17 Reasons Homeowner’s Default On Their Mortgage Posted by Aaron Rice under For Buyers, For Realty Professionals, For Sellers, ... 16. Too much debt 17. Inheritance Most mortgage companies or lenders require the hardship letter ... who contact us on a daily basis to help determine the value of their assets. You can be sure [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:59:13
Drugs are expensive - Call the WAMBULANCE.
This post is a rebuttal to a post located HERE. I think the post is well written, and I think the blog author is probably a nice person ( ... going into debt or staying sick. I’m sure this is not new news: Prescription drug costs ... from the poor health of our citizens? As a community, shouldn’t we care and pay for our grandparents – [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 05:27:14
Raising Women's Voices to "Health Czar" Tom Daschle
When Tom Daschle and the Obama health policy team sit down to discuss how we can fix our broken health care system, they need to make sure the table is big enough for the multiplicity of perspectives that matter. Women want more than a White House Summit and C-SPAN broadcasts to meet the needs of our grassroots communities [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 20:09:35
Finally Finished Paying Off My Medical Bills.
In July, Mrs. Micah issued a personal finance challenge to her readers; ... , and I just finally wrote the last check out for $208.96 for the removal of my stitches. Sure, something else may ... know how lucky I am that I could pay off these bills with cash and not have to go into credit card debt [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 16:00:37
Clinton Sees Smart Power in Smart Development
opening statement featured a long section on the two billion people worldwide living on less than $2 a day. She emphasized that the plight of the poor is “not marginal to our foreign policy but integral to accomplishing our goals.” Opening remarks by Senator John Kerry (Massachusetts) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 17:39:29
Interest Rates Have "One Too Many"
by The Mogambo Guru The bartender bent down real close to my face so that I could not miss him, and since that is never a good sign, ... debt so that it yields exactly zero! Zero! Hahaha!" At this, the bartender walks away, muttering ... that, but he almost did when he wrote that 'investors imagine that U.S. government debt, and the currency [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:41:18
D-Squared Has The Next Big TV Show
Idea for a television show, possibly an “ER” spinoff. ER: The Finance Department. Would revolve around a debt collector working for an American hospital, who has a limited amount ... the circumstances of a poor or middle-class American family with a crippling medical expense, deciding [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 10:23:03
The Farewell Address of the President of the United States
Here we go with, what was supposed to be the top story of tonight. But wasn’t. (Thank God for Canadian Geese! ) The Video: (via MSNBC) .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none ! [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 02:57:33
Fixing the Unemployment Outlook
by The Mogambo Guru Mish Shedlock at globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com has looked at the latest Z1 Flow of Funds report, and found that "$7 ... " that he figures will appear in 2009. He says, "I doubt Obama can do that quickly, if indeed at all." Suddenly, I see my chance to get the spotlight off of Mr. Shedlock, who deserves it, and onto me, who [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 20:04:08
# Debt Consolidation
Debt consolidation is when you take all your outstanding debts and consolidate them into one loan which has a lower interest rate and therefore lower ... you might have due to the student loan you have applied for before. There is also the medical debt ... so that the client will have a greater convenience to pay off all the loans at a single servicing loa [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 03:34:14
Punishing the Wizard: On Apple and Steve Jobs
Punishing the Wizard: On Apple and Steve Jobs John Paczkowski of All Things Digital nails it in 'Apple Investors Are Wusses ... of differentiated products, diversified revenue sources, depth of product pipeline, quality/depth of management team, operating margins, profits, cashflow, cash reserves and absence of debt? So go ahead, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 20:11:14
9 Methods for Mastering Your Money in 2009
2008 was a miserable year for money. The stock market tumbled, unemployment soared, the housing market continued to crumble, and retirement savings shriveled away. Whew! Here’s hoping 2009 will be better! But hope can only do so much. Hope cannot bring change. Action brings change. If one of your goals for 2009 is to take control of your money ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 13:00:21
Payday Loan Store Locations
There is no restriction on what a Payday Loan can be used to pay the interest and repaying the end of the month if you keep to the agreement you made was to payday loan store locations make payment in full. It is a ‘payday’ loan, to be paid ... them responsibly soon find these offers on making an extra fast payday loan online, it’s vital [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 20:17:35
World Record Debt! Somebody Call Guinness!
by The Mogambo Guru I was looking for a good example of the category called " ... ' as much as it is about being So Freaking Far In Debt (SFFID) with no visible means of real, non-government ... themselves into an Un-payable, Stinking Quagmire Of Debt (USQOD) and the people acquired mass, child [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:41:18
The U.S. Dollar: A Federal Reserve Thingy
by The Mogambo Guru The front of a recent issue of Barron's asks, "Are Treasury Bonds Safe? ... , "This means that anybody who is buying any debt - when the central banks of the world are creating more and more money and credit at such astronomical rates - is a real moron, or lunatic, or both [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 21:29:29
Bush Farewell Address (TEXT)
President George Bush gave his final primetime address to the nation on Thursday, January 15th. Below are a copy of his prepared remarks. Also check out Jason Linkins’ Farewell Address live blog . —- As Prepared for Delivery Fellow citizens: For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your President [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 01:26:21
Obama Speech: Stimulus Does Not Motivate
President-elect Barack Obama’s speech today covered his outlook for the economy and new economic stimulus plan. From Brian Knowlton, New York Times: President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday urged Congress to act quickly to pass sweeping economic stimulus measures, including a tax cut and an infusion of as much as $800 billion, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 22:39:03
Fire It Up!
President Obama shouted these words on Thursday, September 17, as he addressed the large young crowd at the University of Maryland’s Comcast Center. AAUW gave me a ticket to the event, which landed me less than 30 feet from the president, along with union members, members of Congress, and other nonprofit workers. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 16:04:18
NEWS WIRE: Uganda: Interest rates still high despite competition
Source: Daily Monitor. Original news wire here. Competition for customers and space in urban areas heightened, this year, ... by Bank of Uganda, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and Equity Bank from Kenya which bought 100 per ... shop in Kampala last year and Global Trust Bank from Nigeria. Equity’s takeover widened [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 05:01:33
5 Best and Worst Addictions to Cultivate During 2009
Sour economic times surface the uglier facets of human nature: Crime, penury, and addictions. We’ll all feel the need to soothe away the pain of collapse for the foreseeable future. Luckily, there are beneficial ways to play out pain-induced compulsions–and less productive ones [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 12:51:15
Credit Scores: New Threats
Credit Scores: New Threats Credit Scores: New Threats A long-delayed update to the leading credit scoring formula is rolling out in 2009, ... . If your credit card issuer slashes your credit limit — which is increasingly likely these days — you could ... by lawsuits between its creator, Fair Isaac, and the nation's three main credit bureaus. Fair [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:51:33
Obagi Medical Products - Notes From JPM
Kids, this is one that was interrupted by the plane crash news so we don’t have all the notes. We tried to make do ... income from 07 to 08 *confidence in growing aesthetic market *$24M cash on hand, $0 debt Also on IguanaBio Anonymous tip? Read more here See recent job postings on the IguanaBio Jobs Board [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 01:44:11
News and Commentary
Children Heavily Represented Among 917 Dead, Say Officialsby Michael Jansen - Irish Times / Common DreamsHealth officials in Gaza said yesterday that the Palestinian death toll since Israel began its offensive against the Strip on December 27th had reached 917 and the number of wounded 4,100 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 08:42:00
1-15-2009 (Thu Afternoon) Fin. & Econ. Activity
General Motors Corp. cut its estimate for 2009 U.S. industrywide auto sales to 10 ... in additional capital from the Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, plus government ... 1970s, said Steven Meyerhardt, a spokesman at the Bureau of Public Debt in Washington. The early [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 21:20:17
The Gordian Knot: Ensnaring Today’s Healthcare System
By Steve Simmons, M.D ... Generations ago, the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Code of Ethics stipulated that allowing ... , short-term business strategies are given priority, often at the expense of patients’ long-term medical [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 12:00:49
100% Buyout Premiums Still Exist (ABT, EYE)
If we told you on Friday that a decent-sized medical merger was coming with a 100% premium, ... . But it is. Up 144% at $21.68 in fact. Abbott is spending about $1.36 billion plus debt to gain ... . It is of no surprise that the board of directors approved the deal. Abbott said the deal [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:43:55
Full Text: President George W. Bush, Farewell Address, Final Televised Speech | January 15, 2009
(Source: New York Times) Following is the prepared text of President Bush’s address, as provided by the White House. Fellow citizens: For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your President. The first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence – a time set apart [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 01:35:13
Frugality in 2009: My New Year’s Resolutions
Happy New Year! I’m coming out of vacation mode just briefly, because it’s an exciting day ... s Resolutions, personal, financial and blog related. My first personal resolution for 2009 is to stop ... is to not acquire any new debt in 2009. This is going to be a big challenge, because I’m still earning [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 11:00:53
Medical Bill
With the Feast of The Three Kings, officially the longest Christmas celebration is now over ... to Debtco.org, a non-profit company that offers debt solutions for all the credit card purchases you made during the holidays. Through Debtco.org, you can consolidate all your multiple credit card [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 19:40:27
Your Credit History: What Gets Reported And What Does Not
A credit report is a document that outlines your financial status, specifically your credit history ... or application for a credit card or insurance beyond $150,000 and unpaid tax liens. Information from public ... years. Certain records do not appear. Debt records more than seven years old and bankruptcy records [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 07:27:56
Children’s Health Plan Clears House in Boost to Obama
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to more than double funding for a government health program for low-income children, taking the first step in President-elect Barack Obama’s promise to ensure medical coverage for all kids. The vote was 289-139 to add $32.3 billion over 4½ years to the program. Congress i [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 11:59:05
Debt, Savings, and the Balance Are Not One Size Fits All
If there is one thing I’ve learned through my very public journey out of debt and towards being a financially responsible individual, ... that money at my student loan. But no matter how many times I am told a $1000 emergency fund [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:17:02
President Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People
Dec. 8, 2008: President George W. Bush kisses one of the children attending the Children’s Holiday Reception and Performance with first lady Laura Bush in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. The reception is for children whose parents are serving in the military and cannot be with them for the Christmas holiday [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 08:47:09
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