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- Precious Metals Fundamentally Sound Despite Market Havoc Wednesday, August 20, 2008 @ 1:44PMOur recent waterfall selling event in futures and commodities created a major dust-up as prominent analysts proclaimed gold is dead and crude oil is headed for $60. Somebody has to be on the other side of the trade so let’s set aside the histrionics and take a cold, hard look at reality.
- The Worst is to Come Tuesday, August 19, 2008 @ 2:20PM*** A little break is in store for The Daily Reckoning…the premier of I.O.U.S.A. is right around the corner - do you have your tickets yet? *** Blunt words on the worldwide credit crisis…a damning article in the Post…and more!
- Millionaires in the making Monday, August 18, 2008 @ 7:08AM John and Gina Rodrigues have always been good with numbers. John is a software engineer who manages a team at Microsoft, and Gina spent years processing mortgages at Wells Fargo and Countrywide Home Loans.
- Millionaires in the making: The Rodrigueses Monday, August 18, 2008 @ 3:49AMJohn and Gina Rodrigues have always been good with numbers. John is a software engineer who manages a team at Microsoft, and Gina spent years processing mortgages at Wells Fargo and Countrywide Home Loans. But the numbers they are especially good at are the kind with dollar signs in front of them.
- Hard-pressed consumers refuse to read from the script Sunday, August 17, 2008 @ 11:51AMThe executives who gathered in a New Jersey hotel in June to discuss the crisis in the mortgage industry had plenty on their minds, but one thing in particular puzzled them: customers were just not behaving in the ways that lenders had come to expect.
- Money management important for students Friday, August 15, 2008 @ 10:38AMAt a time when having good credit is more important than ever, money management courses at colleges continue to crop up. At North Dakota State College of Science, incoming freshman can take a class that addresses the issue.
- State stepping in as banks bail out of student loans Friday, August 15, 2008 @ 3:53AMFor the first time, the state of Utah has begun originating student loans, a shift that will ensure that any Utah college student who needs financial assistance can get it, although it will cost more.
- Are we plunging towards a recession? Hold tight for a scary ride Thursday, August 14, 2008 @ 4:34PMFilling up her Ford Focus at a Southampton petrol station on Friday afternoon, Deborah James became the victim of a modern phenomenon: pump rage. The 31-year-old marketing assistant had just spent £55 on something that would have cost her less than £45 just a few months ago.
- How Much Will Government Bailouts Actually Cost the American Taxpayer? Monday, August 11, 2008 @ 10:52AMOver the last eight years, we have watched in horror as a two-term Republican Administration furthered programs that have effectively thrown lit sticks of dynamite into our American factories.
- College students and credit cards can be a recipe for trouble Friday, August 8, 2008 @ 10:43PMCredit cards and college students can be a dangerous mix. The same goes for anyone who gets a credit card without knowing the terms and conditions. "Students mirror society generally," said Patrick Dwyer, vice president for global public policy at MasterCard.
- BANKS BITE BULLET Friday, August 8, 2008 @ 2:19AMCitigroup and Merrill Lynch, already hammered by tens of billions in mortgage writedowns, took it on the chin again yesterday when the firms agreed to buy back nearly $30 billion in illiquid auction-rate securities as part of a settlement with...
- Questions And Answers – Wednesday, 6 August 2008 Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 4:13PM1. JOHN KEY (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by the statement she made yesterday, in relation to debt to GDP ratios, that “over the forecast period of the Budget that the Labour Government has delivered these debt to GDP ratios are consistently falling”; if so, why?
- Career Education Corporation Reports Results for Second Quarter 2008 Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 2:51PMCareer Education Corporation (NASDAQ: CECO) today reported total revenue of $418.8 million and net income of $12.7 million, or $0.14 per diluted share, during the second quarter of 2008 compared to net income of $5.1 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, during the second quarter of 2007. The net income of $12.7 million includes income from discontinued operations, net of tax, $1.5 million or ...
- Career Education Corporation Reports Results for Second Quarter 2008 Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 2:30PM HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.----Career Education Corporation today reported total revenue of $418.8 million and net income of $12.7 million, or $0.14 per diluted share, during the second quarter of 2008 compared to net income of $5.1 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, during the second quarter of 2007.
- Lincoln Educational Services Corporation Reports Second Quarter Results Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 6:00AM Lincoln Educational Services Corporation reported second quarter 2008 results.
- Businesses drowning in credit card debt Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 4:01AMWASHINGTON -- When Andrew Uribe started building his salsa-making venture, he, like many entrepreneurs, turned to plastic for startup money.
- Questions And Answers – Tuesday, 5 August 2008 Tuesday, August 5, 2008 @ 3:58PM1. R DOUG WOOLERTON (NZ First) to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: Has he been involved in discussions on electoral systems in the Pacific?
- Credit crunch one year on Monday, August 4, 2008 @ 6:28PMA year ago this week interbank lending froze up, heralding 12 months of turmoil in the markets. So where do we go now? We asked 10 leading figures.
- False signs of the end Monday, August 4, 2008 @ 4:26AMSpeaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing. The big news in July was the taxpayer bailout of Fannie and Freddie.
- Auto biography of one towed car Sunday, August 3, 2008 @ 6:10PM$11,000 vehicle for $750 • The 1999 Ford Escort was sold to Parks Auto Sales. $1,100, worth $5,125 • Aimie Mokwa Goodrich bought that car, plus others. * * * * * *
- Miami Dade College suspends midwife program Saturday, August 2, 2008 @ 1:05AMIn another sign of the hard times in higher education, Miami Dade College said Friday it was suspending its innovative midwifery program -- because not enough students had paid their $7,000 course tuition in advance.
- Money woes suspend college midwife program Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 7:52PMIn another sign of the hard times in higher education, Miami Dade College said Friday it was suspending its innovative midwifery program -- because not enough students had paid their $7,000 course tuition in advance.
- MCCAIN VISIT BLOG: McCain holds town hall meeting, fields questions from crowd Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 1:29AMSen. John McCain held a town-hall style meeting in Racine today. The Memorial Hall event attracted both anti-McCain protesters and supporters. This was a breaking news blog we updated throughout the day.
- How to Use Online Loan Sites Thursday, July 31, 2008 @ 2:57PMThe Web can be a useful way to borrow money, but there are a lot of pitfalls as well.
- Color of Money Book Club Thursday, July 31, 2008 @ 12:59PMPersonal finance columnist Michelle Singletary will host an online discussion with Scott Christopher, co-author of "The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up" (Wiley), on Thursday, July 31 at Noon ET.
- MEFA suspends college loans, hundreds of families affected Thursday, July 31, 2008 @ 1:35AMTrying financial times just got worse for college students and their families as the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA) announced that it will not offer personal college loans for the fall semester due to a lack of federal funding.
- Credit market far from tossing away its crutches Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 4:29PMNew Federal Reserve liquidity measures announced on Wednesday continue the process of healing for severely injured global credit markets, but a happier day will be when the market can toss away its crutches for good.
- U.S. Federal Reserve takes steps to break through credit clogs Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 4:10PMWASHINGTON - Focused on getting the credit gears in the United States smoothly working again, U.S. the Federal Reserve is letting Wall Street firms draw emergency loans into next year and giving financial companies more options to help them overcome credit problems.
- Fed takes steps to relieve credit crunch Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 1:56PMThe Federal Reserve is letting Wall Street firms draw emergency loans into next year and giving financial companies more options to help them overcome credit problems.
- House of Cards Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 8:24AMYou thought the housing crisis was bad? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Nationwide, 2 million homes sit vacant. Home sales are at a nine-year low. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says that housing finance has not been this bad since the Depression.
