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AP IMPACT: Mortgage firm arranged stealth campaign

Posted by cport11 1316 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://biz.yahoo.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: finance
Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance gian[...] read more »
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Tip'd Review

Posted by CalebOnline 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://mefinanciallyfree.blogspot.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: advertisement finance blogs tipd
Me Financially Free review of this site. Offering advice to finance bloggers and the "financially interested". read more »
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What Would Warren Buffett Do?

Posted by bbkjbbkj 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://www.dividends4life.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: brka dividends investing stocks
The world's financial system, including the global stock market, is crashing all around us. What would the Oracle of Omaha do? Let's ask him.[...] 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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Eyeless in Wall Street

Posted by 4thwave 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://www.nosle.com)
Category: Commodities | Tags: aware knowledge
It looks like it is time to buy, but read this before you start investing into the market. Good, honest advice. read more »
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F.B.I. Struggles to Handle Wave of Financial Fraud Cases

Posted by 4thwave 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: fbi fraud lehman
A focus on terrorism and intelligence has limited the bureau’s ability to pursue criminal wrongdoing related to the economic crisis, officials said. read more »
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Prosper enters a cocoon. What will emerge?

Posted by mbhunter 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://www.mightybargainhunter.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: loans peer-to-peer lending prosper
Prosper.com announced this week that they would temporarily stop accepting new lenders and new loans pending regulatory filing to provide a secondary[...] read more »
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Smaller Homeowner Bailout Already In Place

Posted by 1only 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://realtytimes.com)
Category: Real Estate | Tags: bailout economy real estate
The $300 billion recovery act has both a mandated mortgage modifying provision and a voluntary "Hope For Homeowners" (H4H) refinance program, for h[...] read more »
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Our Economy Needs More Engineers and Fewer MBAs

Posted by ToughMoneyLove 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://toughmoneylove.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy engineers wall street
Wall Street is dominated by investment bankers and MBAs who cannot produce anything except packaged risk. Our economy needs to innovate and produce [...] 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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Tipping: Psychological Warfare?

Posted by studentscrooge 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://www.studentscrooge.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: restaurants tipping
A look at the various strategies available to waiters and waitresses to increase their tips at the end of a meal. Psychological warfare or Fair Game?[...] read more »
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Who's screwing who next week?

Posted by boombustblog 1317 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://boombustblog.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: bankruptcy cds risk management risks
A quick list of companies whom Lehman was indebted to at the time of bankruptcy[...] 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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Need a bit of cash, sell your photos

Posted by 4thwave 1319 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://picturephotosoncanvas.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: income money passive income photo
Selling is an art that some of us have and others of us fail at rather miserably. Learn to do it right from the beginning.[...] read more »
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House Democrats contemplate abolishing 401(k) tax breaks

Posted by wangarific 1319 days ago, popular 1316 days ago (http://investmentnews.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: 401k retirement
Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation's $3T 401(k) system, including the elimination of most of the $80B tax breaks.[...] read more »
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