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Video: A More-Creditable Credit Card

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:03:52 +0000

Credit-union-issued cards offer a good alternative to bank-issued credit cards and their high rates reports Barrons.com's Clare McKeen.

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Yahoo! Finance

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:23:00 +0000

Next Week More in-depth information is available from Briefing.com , including "live" intra-day market analysis of the U.S. stock and bond markets, technology stocks, economic releases, earnings reports, and day trading highlights. Copyright 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy ...

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Pace of growth picks up in Japan

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:05:03 +0000

Published: November 16 2009 01:11 | Last updated: November 16 2009 20:10 Shoppers in Tokyo Shoppers in Tokyo: domestic demand accounted for 0.8 percentage points of the 1.2 per cent quarter-on-quarter GDP rise > EDITOR’S CHOICE Too early to call rebalancing for Japan - Nov-16 Japan pushes for ...

FT Alphaville found this 7 days ago on ft.com

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The 231st Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance: Financial Fables

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:19:00 +0000

A Maid was carrying her pail of milk to the farm-house, when she fell a-musing. "The money for which this milk will be sold will buy at least three hundred eggs. The eggs, allowing for all mishaps, will produce two hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will become ready for market when ...

Free Money Finance found this 3 days ago on misformoney.net

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Kicked out of finance, and into journalism

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:05:11 +0000

Up until yesterday, Michael Whitney was a presenter on Bloomberg TV; he would occasionally get his byline on Bloomberg News stories. Whitney was fined $55,000 last year by the CFTC and is subject to a permanent injunction, after being charged with false reporting and attempting to manipulate ...

FT Alphaville found this 4 days ago on blogs.reuters.com

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Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Audit The Fed Bill Approved In House Finance Committee

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:25:03 +0000

" In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an overwhelming and bipartisan 43-26 vote on Thursday afternoon despite harried last-minute lobbying from top Fed officials and the ...

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The Puzzles of American Political Economy Today

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:17:00 +0000

Three points to serve as background: First of all, from the day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the policies followed by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. administrations have been very helpful. They have been good ones. The alternative--standing back and ...

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Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Audit The Fed Bill Approved In House Finance Committee

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:37:47 +0000

Chalk up a rare victory for the little guy (and the nation itself). The Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Passes Key Hurdle In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an ...

Bear Mountain Bull found this 3 days ago on globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

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Was TARP Necessary?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:09:00 +0000

(November 19, 2009 12:41 PM, by Arnold Kling) Simon Johnson writes, There is no question that passing the TARP was the right thing to do. In some countries, the government has the authority to provide fiscal resources directly to the banking system on a huge scale, but in...

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Macroeconomic Scholasticism

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:08:13 +0000

Brother Joseph Gagnon makes a few points: The Liquidity Trap Does Not Make Monetary Policy Ineffective : With short-term risk-free interest rates essentially at zero in the major developed economies, conventional monetary policy is in a liquidity trap. As a number of commentators have ...

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Carnival of Personal Finance #230 – New Site Edition

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:19:00 +0000

Welcome to Canadian Finance Blog and the 230th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance! Today is also the re-launch of Canadian Finance Blog, hope you like the new look! While you’re here, consider signing up for the RSS feed or email subscription. Both deliver the latest articles directly ...

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We fought the Dept of Justice and won, hands down.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:01:16 +0000

You, of course, all have heard our claim that we are always successful in resolving our clients’ debt workouts. We are sometimes put to an extreme test. Recently we were challenged in a rare exception to our typical representation as our clients have been litigating with the Department of ...

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Fiscal Expansion That Is Deficit Neutral in the Long Run

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:02:50 +0000

Mark Thoma is alarmed by our president: Economist's View: Obama's Wrong-Headed Thinking on the Deficit : Edward Harrison catches this quote from Obama.... Obama warned the United States' climbing national debt could drag the country into a "double-dip recession," though he said ...

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Stiglitz and Orszags on Fannie Mae

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:55:00 +0000

(November 8, 2009 01:23 PM, by David Henderson) The paper concludes that the probability of default by the GSEs is extremely small. Given this, the expected monetary costs of exposure to GSE insolvency are relatively small -- even given very large levels of outstanding GSE debt and even...

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The Financial Regulatory Chess Game

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:11:51 +0000

(November 18, 2009 10:46 AM, by Arnold Kling) Edward J. Kane writes, Regulation is best understood as a dynamic game of action and response, in which either regulators or regulatees may make a move at any time. In this game, regulatees tend to make more moves than regulators...

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Blackberry… Ick

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:00:30 +0000

I hate blackberry, not the company, just the device. In the world of finance and business the blackberry has become a mandatory device. While access to individuals has certainly increased as a result of this device, I am constantly challenged by the poor quality of communication one often ...

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WRAPUP 2-Japan faces risk of ratings downgrade over debt

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:17:00 +0000

(For global coverage of soaring govt debt click [ID:nDEBT]) * Fitch threatens ratings review over bond issuance * Investors fret over Japan's bulging public debt * Finance minister acknowledges concerns over budget * Voters getting more worried about fiscal discipline * Strategist: Markets need ...

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From Flanders Fields to Silent Tears: Bloggers Unite to Stand for Veterans

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:55:50 +0000

To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. ~ Lt. Col John McCrae, In Flanders Fields Whether you know it as Veterans Day, Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day, November 11 is a day set aside to honor the fallen. It is a day we honor all service men ...

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