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Soup kitchens, pantries brace for busy season

Posted by Cheapsuits 1315 days ago (http://www.chitowndailynews.org)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy soup kitchens
Chicago's emergency food pantries and soup kitchens are gearing up for a busy winter, thanks to spiraling unemployment and food costs. read more »
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Financial crisis: Norwich Union imposes exit penalties of up to 22 per cent

Posted by socker 1315 days ago (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: business crisis economy finance money
The insurer will impose exit penalties - known as Market Value Reductions (MVRs) - of between 13 and 22 per cent. This will effectively reduce the va[...] read more »
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Fed makes new move to help bust credit logjam

Posted by socker 1315 days ago (http://www.huffingtonpost.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: bernanke economy fed finance money
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday introduced a new program to finance the purchases of assets from money market mutual funds as the government continued[...] read more »
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The Return of Lending: Still Distant

Posted by Cheapsuits 1315 days ago (http://seekingalpha.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy lending
"It doesn't matter how much Hank Paulson gives us," said an influential senior official at a big bank that received money from the government, "n[...] read more »
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Bush Open to `Good Ideas' to Stimulate Economy, Perino Says

Posted by paulronan 1315 days ago (http://www.bloomberg.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economic crisis us government
The Bush administration ``remains open to listening to all good ideas'' from Congress on an economic stimulus package, though it isn't planning to[...] read more »
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Why This Recession Will Be A Doozy

Posted by Verna 1315 days ago (http://www.huffingtonpost.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: business finance money world
The last recession was mild. The stock market and corporate profits tanked, but consumer spending--long the major engine of our economy--danced merri[...] read more »
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QQQQ Chart

Posted by JournalWriter 1316 days ago (http://mytradersjournal.com)
Category: Funds and ETFs | Tags: chart investing nasdaq qqqq stocks
One month chart of QQQQ with trend lines. read more »
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The Patti Smith-Barack Obama Experience

Posted by Verna 1316 days ago (http://www.huffingtonpost.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: politics
You'd have thought Patti Smith had been sleeping in her own bed for a month, not fresh off an Australian tour, judging by the show she put on at the[...] read more »
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Prudential in talks over capital raising to finance bid for AIG's Asian operations

Posted by Verna 1316 days ago (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
Category: Economy | Tags: business finance money world
Prudential, Britain's second-biggest life insurer, is in talks to raise capital from investors in the Middle East and Asia to enable it to buy parts[...] read more »
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What Real Financial Reform Should Look Like

Posted by Verna 1318 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://www.huffingtonpost.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: business finance money world
In what little time I have had over the last two weeks to ponder anything other than the difference between adverbs of modification and comparison an[...] read more »
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Financial crisis: Lord Turner vows tougher regulation of banks

Posted by Verna 1319 days ago (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
Category: Economy | Tags: business finance money world
Lord Turner said that he would raise the standards of the Financial Services Authority by recruiting the finest minds in the City, adding that the da[...] read more »
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Dow Jones Charts - October 10, 2008

Posted by JournalWriter 1320 days ago (http://mytradersjournal.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: charts dji dow jones
1 day, 1 week, 1 month and 10 year charts of the Dow Jones Industrial Average with trend lines and analysis from October 10, 2008. read more »
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