US politicians' & voters' financial reality disconnect

These is a teaser for a article I wrote on Examiner.com: "Anger overwhelmed this author upon seeing these two headlines next to each other on the front page above the fold: " 1) S&P downgrades U.S. debt...

Kellan Lutz Rents in Venice

The age-old question of renting versus buying has been asked for generations now, and while now is definitely a buyer’s market, some in the marketplace are choosing to rent instead – including, surprisingly,...

A Unique Way to Clear Foreclosures From the Neighborhood, Literal

With an estimated two million homes in various stages of foreclosure today, the real estate market is struggling to restore some semblance of normalcy. Typically, banks – inundated with scores of foreclosures on...

Foreclosure Assistance Deadline Nears: How Will the Market React?

One of the primary goals of the Obama administration over the last two years has been to shore up the fractured and falling real estate market and help millions of Americans prevent foreclosures – the...

Lenders Turn to Facebook to Deliver Foreclosure Notices

Foreclosures have numbered in the millions over the past five years in the United States, and thenumber rises even higher when you factor in foreclosures from overseas – from countries that have alsoexperienced...

Unemployment Claims Fall While Housing Starts Pick Up

The real estate market as we know it is impacted by a lot of different factors and influences. The economy, of course, is the main one, with unemployment being a pretty big part of the problem. As people continue...

Back to Basics: Why Marketers Are Taking a Second Look At Forums

Social networking. The Superbowl. New Media. What do all these words conjur up?  For many of us in the marketing world the first thing we think of when we hear these words is ad revenue. Despite the recession, 2009 was a remarkable year for online advertising....

Brown, Sarkozy - pledge $10 Billion to Climate Change Fund

Since the Kyoto conference in the 90s developed or rich nations have not done all that well in reaching agreed on targets.  Canada, which signed the Kyoto Accord, in fact increased carbon emission. ...

Foreign buyers no longer binging on long-term U.S. debt

The lack of foreign investment in long-term US assets is not going to go up anytime soon according to a leading trade economist. Some experts say that this is a necessary part of the 'rebalancing' of an economy on the downward trend as the US trade deficit is unsustainable,...

Burning Through Billions

"I thought it was expensive in Vancouver… So far this week the US fed has committed: AIG= $85 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac=$200 billion Federal Housing Administration to refinance failing mortgage into new, reduced-principal loans with a federal guarantee, passed as...

Chavez loosens terms of oil-supply pact

The admirer of fidel castro's cuba and anti-globalist dealing with oil-supply problems."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez touted a pact delivering fuel to Caribbean nations and loosened the financing terms to aid...

Widodo opens APG meeting on money laundering in Bali

" "Our challange is the increasing rate of worldwide crime as a result of globalization ," Widodo said, adding that Indonesia was committed to waging war against money laundering and terrorist financing. The APG will this year accept two new member countries, namely...

African Union: "Unite or Starve"

I can't really argue with this: if it means bargaining with a collective continental market in order to get a better deal on necessities, then so be it. SInce the various AU nations have such different agendas, both with the West and with each other, it's hard to predict how...

Obama to Forgo Public Funds for Election Campaign

Obama announced he wouldn't be taking public funds, yet McCain is...this leaves a lot of people following the elections scratching their heads. What both gain from their respective approaches depends on what they...

McCain & Bush Behind Closed Doors

The DNC wants everyone to beleive the tal;king points that you will here over an over again, McCain is nothing more than a Bush 3rd term.  Well the DNC has got it quite wrong as McCain has continually...

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