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More honest executives not asking santa for bonuses

Posted by ultrageek 1236 days ago (http://www.charlotteobserver.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: banking salary
Here's one more CEO who seems to be acting responsibly in this recession. Bank of America's Ken Lewis asked that he and some of his top execs not g[...] read more »
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Sex industry thriving depite recession

Posted by ultrageek 1236 days ago (http://www.news.com.au)
Category: Business | Tags: business recession
Despite the recession, it seems that the sex industry is booming in the U.S. read more »
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Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs

Posted by ultrageek 1237 days ago (http://online.wsj.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: career personal finance
If you're laid or simply looking for work, check out WSJ's rankings of 200 of the best and worst jobs in America. Are you mad for not pursuing adva[...] read more »
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Bank Of England Policymaker Predicts Unprecedented Dollar Collapse

Posted by ultrageek 1237 days ago (http://www.infowars.com)
Category: Currencies | Tags: currency economy
Several doom and gloom articles are floating around online predicting the collapse of the U.S. dollar. This one at Infowars says that it could happen[...] read more »
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Hyundai: Can't make car payments? Just return it

Posted by ultrageek 1238 days ago (http://www.businessweek.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: automotive personal finance
If you're unfortunate enough to be suffering the current crisis and have a Hyundai auto you cannot make payments on, you're in luck. Hyundai Motor [...] read more »
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IT salary survey says: ‘You’ve never had it so bad’

Posted by ultrageek 1238 days ago (http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: personal finance salary
All those experts who said IT careers were safe in this financial crisis were apparenlty wrong. A salary survey of 50,000 IT workers in the U.S. and [...] read more »
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Calif. Taxpayers Due Refunds May Get IOUs

Posted by ultrageek 1241 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: government personal finance tax
California, biggest US state by pop'n, might go bankrupt in Feb, and taxpayers might get IOUs instead of refund checks - which hasn't happened sinc[...] read more »
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Life after a six-figure salary

Posted by ultrageek 1241 days ago (http://money.cnn.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: personal finance salary
You have a choice: face being laid off or finding a job that maybe pays you half of what you were earning. According to a survey, 63% of unemployed w[...] read more »
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Citigroup’s Top Executives to Forgo ’08 Bonuses

Posted by ultrageek 1242 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Business | Tags: banking executive salaries
More business executives are taking less, but in the banking industry, it's part of the deal for the bailouts. The latest company to limit executive[...] read more »
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Was whole economy a Ponzi scheme?

Posted by ultrageek 1242 days ago (http://www.iht.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy fraud ponzi scheme
This is a meme that's going around lately: that the entire economy/ stock market might be a Ponzi scheme, and that Bernard Madoff probably did not a[...] read more »
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The Ponzi Dilemma

Posted by ultrageek 1243 days ago (http://skepticblog.org)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: fraud investing
The average investor would in fact not know that someone like Bernie Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. Does that makes them gullible? How do you avo[...] read more »
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Claiborne's CEO Crams Into Coach to Cut Costs

Posted by ultrageek 1243 days ago (http://online.wsj.com)
Category: Business | Tags: business leadership
Isn't it nice to see yet more executives practicing commonsense and frugality? Liz Claiborne CEO William L. McComb flies hundreds of thousands of mi[...] read more »
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SEC halts alleged $23 million Ponzi scheme

Posted by ultrageek 1244 days ago (http://www.reuters.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: fraud stock market
oh wow SEC. Thanks so much for stopping a $23M Ponzi scheme. Sure makes up for that $50B scheme you missed. read more »
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Ten Billionaire Blowups of 2008

Posted by ultrageek 1244 days ago (http://finance.yahoo.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: economy personal finance recession
Ouch. These ten billionaires lost enormous fortunes - some are down to zero net worth. read more »
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California: The next bailout beggar?

Posted by ultrageek 1245 days ago (http://www.independent.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: california government recession
California, the biggest state in the USA is about to run out of money in just two months. A state bankruptcy is unprecedented. read more »
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