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U.S. House Prices Keep Climbing with a 1.2% Rise in June

Integrated Asset Services(www.iasreo.com) today released its IAS360 House Price Index (HPI). Based upon the timeliest and most granular data available in the industry, the index for national house prices moved ahead another 1.2% in June.   With June’s gains--the...

US Treasury Targets Hizballah Network in Africa

US Department of the Treasury targeted Kassim Tajideen and Abd Al Menhem Qubaysi, under E. O. 13224, an Executive Order signed by former President G. W. Bush on September 23, 2001, in response to the September 11,...

Socialism in the US?

This is something that needs to be carefully  looked at. The main issue is once startedwhere would it end. "But some Republicans who bit their tongues when President George W. Bush ordered huge interventions...

The Dirty Secret of the Financial Crisis: Our Banking System's Broken

"Henry Paulson's $700 billion plan to save the world is dead or dying, but the bailout was not killed by his arrogance or his grossly misleading claims about what the public's money would buy. The plan collapsed because it didn't work. The Treasury secretary has launched a PR...

Roubini: Panic may shut markets

Everyone is starting to listen to Nouriel Roubini.  His predictions have been remarkably accurate and his latest is his most stark."Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Hundreds of hedge funds will fail and policy makers...

How Washington could have helped the market at no cost to taxpayers

OPINION An important read for anyone who is under the impression that current or future government intervention is going to save stock markets, the US economy or the US dollar.  Prepare for even more...

Husband Saws House in Half After Divorce

A couple who were married for more than 40 years have taken the literal route when it comes to splitting up their belongings: the husband cut the house in half.  In a village in the Prey Veng province of Cambodia, people were pretty shocked to hear the strange news -...

Divorce Cambodian style

And you think American divorces are weird!"(CNN) -- A Cambodian couple who separated after 40 years of marriage may have taken things too literally when it came to splitting their assets: ...

Paulson Signals U.S. May Invest in Banks to Shore Up Confidence

Following yesterday's announcement that the UK will start investing in banks to shore up consumer and bank confidence, the US appears to be set to do the same thing. Part of the motivation behind this is, rather...

Estimates Show Sarah Palin's Assets Top $1M

"Estimates Show Sarah Palin's Assets Top $1M(WASILLA, Alaska) — Sarah Palin and her husband have pieced together a uniquely Alaskan income that reached comfortably into six figures even before she became...

France Proposes a €300bn Saftey Net for European Banks in Crisis

FRANCE has proposed a €300bn "safety net" worth sterling £240bn or US dollar $450bn it has been revealed.  Germany was said to not approve of the plan whose aim would be to bail out illiquid...

Need a Job? $17,000 an Hour. No Success Required.

"By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: September 17, 2008 Are you capable of taking a perfectly good 158-year-old company and turning it into dust? If so, then you may not be earning up to your full potential.You...

Number of millionaires rises to 1.23 lakh in India

" NEW DELHI: With economy growing in a rapid pace and stock markets rising sharply in 2007, India saw the fastest growth in the number of high networth individuals (HNI) worldwide and their combined wealth...

Calm before the storm, yet again? « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

" In this climate the assets to hold are commodities in general, and precious metals in particular. Gold managed an eight-fold increase in the late 70s while silver soared even higher. Do not be surprised if history repeats itself, and oil prices also stay high."

Ecuador seizes Brazilian Odebrecht assets and demands compensation

"  President Rafael Correa of Ecuador has ordered troops to seize the assets of a major Brazilian construction company.  The move follows a dispute over the country's second largest dam, which was built by the Odebrecht company but shut down just a year after it...

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