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TARP's first report card. In the first full audit of the government's bailout program, the Government Accountability Office faulted the Treasury Department for failing to address several critical issues, including how to ensure its efforts were successful [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 12:15:33

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New Credit Card Rules and Regulations - The Good and The Bad

Note: The New Credit Card Rules Do Not Go Into Effect Until July 1, 2010 These days, it seems like whenever there’s a good thing going or some attractive opportunity for pecuniary gain or profit, the masses ultimately swarm the offer like locusts until they’ve completely ruined it for everyone else [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 03:28:28

Taking Stock in Coca-Cola (KO):

This is a guest post from Brad, who maintains http://www.nurseb911.com/ and http://www.dividendsanonymous.com/ ... have to their product(s). Love it or hate it; the products of this company are consumed on a daily basis globally ... of 25% of the global population consuming a minimum of one product sold by the Coca-Cola Company each [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 13:30:00

Non-Profit Debt Relief - A Respite For Customers

Non-Profit Debt Relief - A Respite For Customers Posted in January 15th, 2009 Category:Debt Relief Non-profit debt relief is not a difficult task. All you need to do is some research and find what is right for you. Generally by consolidation you assign a process under which several bad credit card debt loan, credit card debt etc. are dealt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:51:58

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

Why overhead ratios are meaningless for Kiva and Acumen Fund

Editor’s note: This post first appeared on Sasha’s personal blog ... , where I work - we raise philanthropic donations and then make debt and equity investments ... invested capital (loans and equity), unlike grants, don’t factor into ratio of “overhead costs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 12:00:59

Business Lessons From The Builder Of A Media-Entertainment Empire

By Julie Rains He is a Forbes’ billionaire (#524 in March 2008) and the largest individual landowner in the United States, having built his wealth as he constructed a media-entertainment empire now known as Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 19:16:00

The best unknown biotech in the world. Bar none.

The best unknown biotech in the world. Bar none. By admin | January 15, 2009 Submitted by Bapcha’s Stocks If I told you that there is a Swiss Biopharmaceutical Company that has an enviable success record that even Genentech would be proud of; that it was founded in 1997; has revenues in excess of a billion dollars a year; [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 04:39:41

Words from the (investment) wise 12.28.08

Investors spent the holiday-shortened Christmas week in an un-merry mood, digesting more gloomy economic data and taking stock of a tumultuous 2008 ... s exuberance), but also still be battling with the implications of the credit crisis for the global economy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 12:31:33

How To Invest In Tech Stocks

Tech stocks are probably the hardest sector for investors to make money. There are significant obstacles that come with investing in tech such as the hype surrounding the sector and individual stocks, large price to earnings multiples and lots of volatility [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 09:01:52

Blogging Krugman's The Return of Depression Economics Over at TPM Cafe...

TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | What Is Non-Depression Economics?: This discussion has so far one major lack: it does not tell us what "depression economics" is supposed to replace--it does not tell us what non-depression economics is, or was. So let me try my hand at a definition of non-depression economics [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 17:52:22

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Fake profits shake Satyam. Satyam (SAY) shares are down over 70% in Indian trading after B. Ramalinga Raju, the company's founder and chairman, resigned and admitted over $1B of Satyam's balance sheet as of Sept. 30 was inflated non-existing cash and bank balances [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:15:15

Words from the (investment) wise 12.15.08

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (December 8 - 12, 2008) Despite a litany of bleak economic and corporate news confronting investors during the past week, global stock markets digested the bearish fodder with a sense of aplomb. The MSCI World Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index gained 4.4% and 10 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 12:42:13

Companies that may cook books!

After the Satyam debacle it would be better idea to stay away from markets for few days. DLF: DLFs non-DAL revenues declined 44% QoQ to Rs22 ... exercise. Jet also capitalised Forex loss of Rs6.2bn on Forex debt and adjusted it against carrying value [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 15:35:00

6 Ways To Give

This article is part of an M-Network group writing project, the 12 Days of Christmas - Personal Finance Style. As the project moves through its days, I will be adding each article at the bottom of this post. We’ll be posting from December 1st to December 12th [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 12:00:39

Shame: Baby Orangutan Used as Collateral for $100,000 Loan at Florida Zoo

BY SCOTT PAGE Source: Gulf Breeze News Scott Page/Gulf Breeze News Three-year-old orangutan Indah plays alongside her mother, Sara, ... to step in and help, so she is working with the private owners of the zoo to try and get the debt paid off [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:34:43

Tim Kaine and the Future of Obama For America

Tim Kaine and the Future of Obama For America Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine will be the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee. (Photo by Linda Davidson of the Washington Post) Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine's installation at the head of the Democratic National Committee sends a strong signal that President-elect Barack Obama will seek to keep the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 15:56:48

Are We Crazy? Starting a Business NOW?

Here is some much-needed sanity from Business & Media Institute commentator Dan Kennedy: ... are not about Obama and his minions, nor the running up of trillions of fresh federal debt, nor bail-outs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 18:45:32

Scrambling for guidance

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?It’s quite a hell out there ... out with its Q3 results. Infosys has reported a consolidated net profit of Rs16.41bn [more...]

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

Non-Profit Debt Consolidation - Rebuild Credit with a Debt Consolidation

Non-profit debt consolidation companies can help you rebuild your credit ... . They can also lower your rates on some types of debt, such as credit card accounts. Not as detrimental to your credit score as a bankruptcy or foreclosure, debt consolidation can get you on the right track [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:54:51

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

DrumBeat: January 7, 2009

Shell seeks Colo. water for oil shale production Shell Oil has filed for the first major water right on the Yampa River in northwest Colorado for its oil shale development plans. Shell applied Dec. 30 in state Water Court to use about 8 percent of the Yampa's peak spring flow [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:57:26

The Best Colleges For Your Money

The best college for your money obviously depends on what you’re looking for in a school; but whether your college search is for you or your kid, ... and was about $9,000 in debt from it. Then, she did a two years master’s program to become a physician [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 10:47:54

Debt Management Dealing With Do Debt Management Plans Work & Non Profit Debt Management Programs

Debt Management Dealing With Do Debt Management Plans Work & Non Profit Debt Management Programs If you feel like you are already drowning in the debts that you have gotten yourself into, maybe it is time to get card credit debt management ... the necessary steps to find that debt management credit counselor resources or company [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:27:20

The best unknown biotech in the world. Bar none.

If I told you that there is a Swiss Biopharmaceutical Company that has an enviable success record that even Genentech would be proud of; ... ) (405) (152) (163) (233) Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs (1,500) (7,448) (7,836 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 03:03:39

‘You want me on that wall! You need (a good journalist) on that wall!’

For 20 years, I was a newsman. A damned good one. I learned the craft from good newsmen who learned it from other good newsmen before me ... union labor or bringing in its own non-union crews, what the impact of the finished plant would [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 16:40:37

ISRAEL-PALESTINE TEST-CRICKET MATCH; ABSTRACTIONS, POLITICS, AND SCIENCE IN THE SHADOWS ON THE STAIRCASE

If it were me managing the Israel squad leading 916-5 in my innings with no out and still on my opening pair, ... f/x, non-US sovereign and corporate debt, and commodities. Warrior states with huge DEBT/GDP ratios [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:21:00

YES WE DID! Save, that is

Members of "Generation Net" aka the "Millenials" are commonly characterized as having technological prowess, ... turnout in 2000 and 2004, their record turnout impressed. Analysts tallying record debt levels carried [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 05:39:00

Shatzmiller J. (1990) “The best Jew in the world”: another look at medieval Jewish usury

Joseph Shatzmiller (1990) Shylock reconsidered: Jews, Moneylending, and Medieval Society, Berkeley, University of California Press, 250p ... lenders in Marseille. In 1310 alone, they were involved in 14 trials for unpaid loans (about 25 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:47:49

Blagojevich Criminal Complaint: The Best of the Best

Blagojevich Criminal Complaint: The Best of the Best The arrest of Rod Blagojevich this morning coincided with the release of a 78-page criminal complaint by the U.S. attorney's office detailing the allegations against the Illinois governor. While the entire document is a must-read, the Fix, as always, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 18:00:10

Non-Profit Debt Relief - Get it Free

Non-Profit Debt Relief - Get it Free Posted in January 15th, 2009 Category: ... Debt Relief Non-profit debt relief provides you respite from your numerous lenders by negotiating ... all your credit card arrears. Non-Profit Debt Relief Groups These are one of the most preferred [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:15:29

Not All Non-Profit Debt Consolidation Companies are the Same

Not All Non-Profit Debt Consolidation Companies are the Same January 15th, ... to learn how to find the right, work-for-you non-profit debt consolidation company. Look specifically ... negotiations. When the non-profit debt consolidation company is successful, late charges and interest fees [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 04:59:44

THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIONIST COMPANY UNIONISM IN ISRAEL…the story of the Histadrut, the General Federation of Jewish Labor in Greater Israel

from the WORKERS ADVICE CENTER: From Challenge # 88  November-December 2004 The Unmaking of the HistadrutDani Ben Simhon In May 2004, ... of the “yishuv” (the pre-state Jewish settlement of the land). Even when it functioned as a labor [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 11:08:48

Choosing Debt Consolidation Companies Wisely

Choosing Debt Consolidation Companies Wisely January 15th, ... recommendable it is quiet important to choose the right debt consolidation company in order to maximize ... thoroughly which debt consolidation company you will work with, the ones hiding those costs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:35:19

Financial problems: the arabs done it ?

Financial problems: the arabs done it ? http://mysticalpaths.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-yishmael-caused-world-economic.html Anonymous jos boersema said... I don`t think so Akiva. a) Arab oil greed ? It is their oil, if they want to charge 2.000,- a barrel, that is their right [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 19:48:59

Debt Consolidation Loans Can Be Non-Profit Or Profitable

Debt Consolidation Loans Can Be Non-Profit Or Profitable January 15th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed The following article focuses on how to get a debt consolidation ... some of the benefits of using this type of debt consolidation loan, some of the discussion will center [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:48:57

Nortel files for bankruptcy. What does it mean to India?

Nortel has $11.6 bn assets and $11.8 bn liability. That would mean a overall liability of 200 million. They have a cash of $2.6 billion ... . During this bankruptcy protection Nortel will negotiate $4.5 billion of its debt, exit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:00:54

The Top Franchise Trends For 2009

Two words will be dominating the franchise landscape for 2009: cautious optimism ... credit score, and low personal debt, will increase the chances of getting a franchise loan.  More tips [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 07:30:34

Evaluating This Year’s Progress Against My Goals

In December 2007, I set a number of financial goals or targets to be accomplished by the end of this year ... I am allowed to contribute. Debt: I have about $13,000 left [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 16:26:44

Would You Prefer Your Favorite Company To Buy Back Stock or Pay A Dividend?

The companies you invest in generate profits (hopefully) ... they bought back are much lower and they still have the debt loads from the transaction.  Terrible decisions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 09:09:12

Total truth…

Profilename: Alexander James<!–calendar «February 2007»MoTuWeThFrSaSu   12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728    –>recently…@Jan 8/09: round-up of a few VERY IMPORTANT Under-Reported Headlines to stay truly informed@Dec 25/08: round-up of a few VERY IMPORTANT Under-Reported Headlines to stay truly informed*Investigating Mumbai [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:06:48

Investor Beware! A Preview of the Nigerian Capital Market in 2009

Capital market drivers. The prosperity of the capital market depends on the prosperity of the economy ... meaningful income. Because economic agents generally subscribe to primary offers of either debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 10:27:20

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

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