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So, When Will Banks Give Loans?

Posted by jaybol 1309 days ago, popular 1308 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: business journalism
In point of fact, the dirty little secret of the banking industry is that it has no intention of using the money to make new loans. But this executiv[...] read more »
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Bush, Bernanke: Time is right for new stimulus

Posted by jaybol 1315 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: bernanke bush economy
Momentum is building for a fresh dose of economic stimulants to boost the country out of the doldrums — perhaps by putting more money in Americans’ [...] read more »
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RIMM Shares Plunge on Weak Blackberry Sales Report

Posted by jaybol 1315 days ago (http://www.reuters.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: blackberry stocks
Research In Motion shares fell as much as 10 percent on Monday after one brokerage said retail sales trends for its BlackBerry smartphones in North...[...] read more »
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Green Policies in California Generated Jobs, Study Finds

Posted by jaybol 1315 days ago, popular 1315 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Green | Tags: california green
California’s energy-efficiency policies created nearly 1.5 million jobs from 1977 to 2007, while eliminating fewer than 25,000, according to a study[...] read more »
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Warren Buffett: "Buy American. I Am."

Posted by jaybol 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Stocks
To be sure, investors are right to be wary of highly leveraged entities or businesses in weak competitive positions. But fears regarding the long-ter[...] read more »
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Economic Puzzles: Suddenly, Europe Looks Pretty Smart

Posted by jaybol 1317 days ago, popular 1315 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: bailouts europe
In recent years, as Wall Street boomed, Americans often dismissed Europe as a place for languorous meals and vacations, not economic innovation. read more »
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Op-Classic by Milton Friedman, 1989: We Have Socialism, Q.E.D.

Posted by jaybol 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy finance
In 1989, the year the government bailed out the savings and loan industry, the economist Milton Friedman denounced socialism's inroads in the US[...] read more »
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How Fear is Making the Economic Crisis Worse Than It Needs to Be

Posted by jaybol 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://www.slate.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy fear psychology
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed at his first inauguration in March 1933, amid the worst...[...] read more »
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10 Bright Spots to Consider Amid the Financial Turmoil

Posted by jaybol 1317 days ago (http://finance.yahoo.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy finance
Take heart: The editors of Kiplinger's Personal Finance and Kiplinger's forecasting put their heads together and came up with ten things going righ[...] read more »
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$596 Trillion! How can the derivatives market be worth more than the world's total financial assets?

Posted by jaybol 1318 days ago, popular 1317 days ago (http://www.slate.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: derivatives economy
By contrast, the value of the world's financial assets—including all stock, bonds, and bank deposits—was pegged at $167 trillion last year by McKins[...] read more »
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9 Sites That Help With Everyday Budgeting

Posted by jaybol 1318 days ago, popular 1318 days ago (http://finance.yahoo.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: personal finance
One silver lining to these tough economic times: a slew of new free online tools and services that help consumers save money and manage it wisely.[...] read more »
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Obvious: Bush Struggles to Be Heard in Economic Crisis

Posted by jaybol 1318 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: bush economy ny times
President Bush is doing plenty of talking about the financial crisis, but Americans do not appear to be taking much reassurance from his words. read more »
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Special Report: How Our Economy is Killing Our Earth

Posted by jaybol 1319 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://www.newscientist.com)
Category: Green | Tags: business economy environment
In this special issue, New Scientist brings together key thinkers from politics, economics and philosophy who profoundly disagree with the growth...[...] read more »
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What Really Happened in the Stock Market (COMIC)

Posted by jaybol 1319 days ago, popular 1318 days ago (http://everythingrandom.net)
Category: Stocks | Tags: comics investing stocks
It's good to have the behind the scenes look at this. read more »
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Peter Schiff: Don't Blame Capitalism

Posted by jaybol 1319 days ago, popular 1319 days ago (http://www.washingtonpost.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy peter schiff
Just as prices in a free market are set by supply and demand, financial and real estate markets are governed by the opposing tension between greed...[...] read more »
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