Will the bad financial news ever stop? A lot of people in the financial world were hoping for a much better fourth quarter after an absolutely disastrous third quarter.
I will give Raul Grijalva credit for one thing. At least he is honest about his “Progressive-ism”. He lays it right out there for all to see. I sure hope the good people of western Arizona are paying attention. Right from their own .Gov website
Amid a gloomy outlook for economic growth, Bernanke warned that the recovery is “close to faltering,” and he said the central bank has marked down its forecasts since they were last released publicly in June. The Fed decided two weeks ago to shift
Global economies are cratering
The Energy Department defied Republican critics Friday by announcing that it had committed an additional $4.7 billion in loan guarantees toward four big-dollar clean technology projects just hours before the program’s funding expired.
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Striking the root is a concept advocated by abolitionist, individualist anarchist and trancendetalist Henry David Thoreau. He believed that striking the cause (the “root”) was preferable to hacking at the effects (the “branches”).
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Ernest Hancock
Robert Mazur, author of "The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel," talks with Ernest about banks and money fraud
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Robert Mazur, author of "The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel," talks with Ernest about banks and money fraud
A couple of weeks ago, I was honored to attend a private gathering of influential conservative leaders just outside Washington, D.C.
L: So Doug, gold has dropped from its $1,917.90 high last month down to $1,540 yesterday and is currently hovering around $1,650.
Like Americans trying to raise quick cash by unloading their unwanted goods, the federal government is considering a novel way to reduce the deficit: holding the equivalent of a garage sale.
Bank of America will become the first major bank to charge customers across the country a monthly fee to shop with their debit cards, part of a wave of changes that are eroding the low-cost model of banking that consumers have long enjoyed.
Keith and “Countdown” contributor and Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi discuss how the current Occupy Wall Street protest could sprout a much larger movement for reform. Comparing the media coverage of this protest to the coverage of the
(Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission faces hurdles proving wrongdoing at credit-rating agencies, the agency's enforcement chief said, pointing to the complexity of the cases and the industry's strong legal defenses.
What has shielded the U.S. from a lot of the social strife sweeping the rest of the globe at the moment has been the U.S. dollar’s reserve status since this allows us to print seemingly infinite amounts of paper dollars and shove them down the throat
Spent is an interactive game created by McKinney that challenges you to manage your money, raise a child and make it through the month getting paid minimum wage while dealing with the unexpected expenses that always seem to come up.
The greatest Depression
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As the third quarter comes to an end, strategists and investors are beginning to prep their clients and portfolios for the chance that the whole globe slides into a recession at the same time.
"Unless the municipal market is strong and people feel confident (in it), state and local governments are not going to be able to finance their needs," said Richard Ravitch, who along with former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, is heading a ta
Way back in the middle of the 19th centurty, author Horace Greeley gave young Americans the following advice: "Go West, young man, go West". Well, we have reached another moment in U.S. history when it may be wise for many Americans to pick up and m
2008. We had almost as many manic up days back then as crazy down days. Remember how we were saved when Fannie and Freddie got put into conservatorship? Remember how all was good when AIG was taken over by the government? Then we sold off the day tha
Bloomberg reports some rather refreshingly honest headlines from the outspoken Fed President: *FISHER SAYS FED POLICY `HAS YET TO SHOW EVIDENCE OF WORKING' *FISHER SAYS BENEFITS OF OPERATION TWIST DON’T OUTWEIGH COSTS...
There's no clause barring a strike by hourly workers amid this fall's national contract talks with the United Auto Workers — a by-product of the taxpayer-financed bailout that General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC retain until 2015.
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After the 60 Minutes broadcast, I spoke with loads of brokers, wealth advisors, and fixed income portfolio managers, who talked my ear off about the tremendous time they now had to spend “hand-holding” clients and defending the entire muni asset clas
In his essay that I addressed yesterday, Pat Buchanan writes: You cannot have a rising standard of living when your highest-paid production jobs are being exported overseas.
All of which is making our “solution” to the financial pile up of ’08-’09 look better and better all the time. You’ll recall that we promised to tell you how you could fix the problem in our last exciting installment. This must have left you on the e
