Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Thursday, December 06, 2012
For Pete's Sake, What's Happened to Our Democracy?
One billionaire has the wherewithal to totally redirect America's political discourse.
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Food stamps on the rise - Nov. 28, 2012
Nearly 15 million households were on food stamps at some point last year, up from 13.6 million in 2010, newly released Census data shows. That's an increase to 13%, up from 11.9% in 2010.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Strategic Maneuvers | CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Monday, November 19, 2012
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The devil in Case-Shiller housing details - Yahoo! Finance
Some analysts say that the NAR report may present a too-rosy view of that market. Case-Shiller house prices are historically slightly more conservative than price data from the NAR, mostly because the report adjusts for the size of homes being sold, while the NAR’s price index does not. The result is that NAR’s numbers jump when homes at the high end of the market sell strongly, and larger and more expensive homes have lately been selling particularly well, says Jed Kolko, chief economist at real-estate listing site Trulia. “This is why the NAR median sales price has risen so much more than other indexes.”
Dow will repeat 2007-2008 peak-crash cycle - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch
You can never trust Wall Street bulls, they’re lying to you 93% of the time.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Thursday, August 09, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/30/us-usa-economy-housing-idUSBRE83G0T120120430
"Credit might get easy for creditworthy borrowers, but you are not going to see the same drive to bring in the broader demographic into home ownership you had in the early 1990s and 2000s. Renters are going to be renters, they will not become buyers,"
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Americans brave for new foreclosure wave
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/04/us-foreclosure-idUSBRE83319E20120404Wednesday, April 04, 2012
The Case for Remaining a Renter - SmartMoney -
http://blogs.smartmoney.com/advice/2012/04/04/the-case-for-remaining-a-renter/
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Over 36,000 homes valued at $1 million or more were foreclosed on -- or at least served with a notice of default -- in 2011, according to data compiled by RealtyTrac, which tracks foreclosures. While that's less than 2% of all foreclosures nationwide, it represents a much bigger share of foreclosure activity than in previous years.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
More than three in five U.S. workers in their 50s and 60s plan on working past 65 — and 47% of that group say they'll do so because they'll need the money or health benefits, according to a 2011 study from the nonprofit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Speculators are betting against the euro, banks are taking incalculable risks and the markets are in turmoil. Three years after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the financial industry has become a threat to the global economy again. Governments missed the chance to regulate the industry, and another crash is just a matter of time.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Stefan Stern: Marx was right about change - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
...
Even now, most global financial institutions and political leaders are advocating wholly orthodox approaches to managing budget deficits and currency volatility, even as their efforts are revealed as being more or less futile, or worse. The truth is perhaps too scary for some to contemplate. Either that, or the temporary winners of the current system are simply filling their boots with as much as they can before the next, potentially even bigger crash.
Those who regard the recent actions of rioters in English cities as "criminality pure and simple" will not see any connection between Roubini's declaration that "Marx was right" and the decision to steal a 42-inch TV from a burning electricals store. But, for some, looting may have seemed a sensible (if illegal) response to the apparently continuous turmoil of the economy. If everything about your financial future seems at best uncertain and at worst desperate, why not carpe diem, or carpe television at any rate? Rational economic man (and woman) has finally been sighted, legging it down Tottenham High Street in a new pair of trainers.
...
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Who really benefited from QE2 anyway? Brett Arends' ROI - MarketWatch
Wall street made out, main street largely missed out.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Why IT Workers Should Unionize - Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones - Technology - The Atlantic
There is power in a union for the information technology industry, one of The Atlantic's own developers argues, even though programmers often resist collective organizing.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Guest Post: Corporate America Really Really Cares About Its Employees (Really) - A Distributed Rant | zero hedge
Thursday, June 09, 2011
UPDATE 1-US economy at tipping point,double-dip risk-Shiller | Reuters
"'My gut feeling is we might see a continuation of the decline' in home prices, Shiller said earlier on Thursday at a Standard & Poor's housing summit. He added that a 10 percent to 25 percent slump in real home prices 'wouldn't surprise me at all,' though he cautioned that was not a forecast."
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
More Homeowners With Second Mortgages Are Underwater - WSJ.com
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
A Defiant 'Spanish Revolution' - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
Ever since Sunday, May 15th, residents from many cities around Spain have been demonstrating against the country's ongoing financial crisis, its politicians, and its bankers. The spontaneous protests are the largest since the country plunged into recession in 2008, and they're made up mainly of young people who have set up camps in main squares across the country. Called "los indignados" (the indignant), the May 15 Movement, or simply 15-M, they are fueled by frustration with austerity measures, apparent indifference from politicians, and serious joblessness...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 04, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Exceptional Mr. Greenspan - NYTimes.com
"Alan Greenspan continues his efforts to cement his reputation as the worst ex-Fed chairman in history; in today’s FT, he comes out for a repeal of financial regulations designed to prevent a repeat of the crisis for which he, more than any other individual, bears personal responsibility. ..."
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/536035/Jeffrey-Sachs%3A-%22The-American-People-Are-Going-to-Reach-a-Breaking-Point%22
http://snipurl.com/27lgmv
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
U.S. Corporate Profits Hit Record in Third Quarter - NYTimes.com
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Guest Post: iDepression 2.0 | zero hedge
* Goods producing jobs as a percentage of all jobs have declined from 31.2% in 1970 to 13.8% today.
* Lawyers, accountants, financial advisors and other paper pushing professions made up 12.4% of jobs in 1970 versus 18.7% of all jobs today.
* Obese Americans love to go out to restaurants and be served. Hospitality employees now make up 10.1% of the workforce versus 6.7% in 1970.
* Obese, vain, stupid Americans have also benefitted the Health Services and Education industries as the number of nurses, proctologists, teachers, school administrators and Beverly Hills TV surgeons has surged from 6.4% of the workforce to 15.1%. You’d think we would be healthier and smarter with these figures. We’re not."
Occidental Petroleum CEO Ray Irani is the poster child for extravagant executive pay - latimes.com
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wall Of Worry Redux: 24 Statistics Confirming America's Decline | zero hedge
Monday, October 11, 2010
Are WSJ OpEd Writers Clueless or Liars? | The Big Picture
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says - latimes.com
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Robert Shiller Says Double Dip Imminent | zero hedge
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Poor Mark Hurd: HP severance includes $12.2 million cash, $16 million in stock - BusinessWeek
But looks like HP employees are not "saddened" by Hurd's departure from this WSJ deal journal blog. Apparently some "had an office party this Monday at HP HQ’’.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Thursday, November 06, 2008
"Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so our children could fly!".
Apparently, it is from rapper Jay-Z. Here is a link (http://morrisvideos.com/watch_video.php?v=40469f25fad6b4e) where it was said on Oct 5h concert in New York city (at around 1min 53sec)
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
California home prices fall 26 percent amid foreclosures
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Speculators May Have Accelerated Housing Downturn
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Friday, September 21, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007
U.S. home prices may plunge as much as 20 percent because of rising defaults on riskier mortgages.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Friday, July 21, 2006
Housing Expert: 'Soft Landing' Off Mark !
Monday, April 10, 2006
Monday, March 13, 2006
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Friday, January 13, 2006
Friday, December 09, 2005
Friday, November 18, 2005
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Friday, November 11, 2005
Monday, October 31, 2005
Monday, October 24, 2005
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Friday, June 24, 2005
Monday, June 06, 2005
Friday, May 27, 2005
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Friday, March 25, 2005
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Monday, February 28, 2005
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Monday, December 13, 2004
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Monday, November 29, 2004
Thursday, November 25, 2004
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Monday, October 18, 2004
Sunday, October 03, 2004
Thursday, July 08, 2004
Friday, July 02, 2004
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Newly Released Documents Shed Light on Microsoft Tactics
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Monday, March 08, 2004
Friday, March 05, 2004
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Sunday, January 11, 2004
Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Monday, September 22, 2003
Robert Shiller's research shows still there is irrational exuberance in US real estate market.
Thursday, June 05, 2003
Thursday, May 15, 2003
Monday, April 14, 2003
Friday, April 04, 2003
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Thursday, March 13, 2003
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Friday, February 28, 2003
While thousands of HP employees were laid off and its earnings plunged into red for the year 2002, its ex-president Michael Capellas walked away with cool $26 million.