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Patience Needed for Housing Loan Program, Home Buyer Finds

In a housing market plagued by one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country, finding and buying a home would seem to be an easy hunt, especially if you're armed with federal funding assistance." The sheer mass of real estate available at a record-low price...

Save one job, lose another

Frank de Jong, the Leader of the Ontario Green party, hits the nail right on the head in this article. As soon as this Bust is over, Governments will begin raising taxes to pay the interest on debt accrued from bailing out private corporations. In other words, taxpayers will...

Bear market trap

The terms bull market and bear market respectively describe upward and downward movements of a market over a prolonged period of time in which prices rise or fall faster than normal. The expressions "bullish" and...

World Bank loans exacerbate climate change

Study highlights World Bank’s financing of fossil fuels––Its been said that instead of 'needing' to spend around 2 billion a year on a small number of major developments, like mega-hydropower dams and power stations, to meet their shareholders targets, the World Bank...

Prognostications, Pundits and Poo

Prognostications, Pundits and Poo Bill Hitchcock   We all know that we are in an “interesting” real estate environment. The fact is-It’s terrible. But where do we go from here? Personally, I think prognostications from most pundits is purely poo. Most of the...

Brown will force UK banks to pass on full rate cut

After the Bank of England's historic rate cut this week, banks have remained hesitant to pass on the rate cut to loan receivers. Many analysts are saying the current money market situation means it is impossible for the banks to match the base rate. But Gordon Brown is...

The price always goes up at Standard and Poor's and Citigroup

An interesting twist on the world of supposedly-conservative bankers and rating agencies in the latest financial meltdown, this time at Citigroup and Standard and Poor's.  The quick lesson:  if your complicated financial models assume that real estate prices will...

Government to aid credit issuers with $7.76 trillion

UPDATE 2:38 EST: The US treasury department has revealed it is going to provide an unprecedented $7.76 trillion for guaranteeing Citigroup's debt in a bid to rescue the frozen credit markets for consumers."The...

U.S. Approves Plan to Help Citigroup Weather Losses

"Citigroup executives presented a plan to federal officials on Friday evening after a weeklong plunge in the company’s share price threatened to engulf other big banks. In tense, round-the-clock negotiations that stretched until almost midnight on Sunday, it became clear...

The Housing Crisis and a Fight-Back Program

"The current economic crisis has been building for years. At its root is the massive elimination of decent-paying jobs and lowering of wages in the U.S. and worldwide, a phenomenon explained and analyzed so well in the party’s newest book, “Low-Wage Capitalism.”The...

Citi Rescue Talks Underway

"The market shrugged off the prospect of a Citigroup meltdown and focused instead on the leak that Timothy Geithner was Obama's pick for Treasury Secretary. Citi fell another 20%, its shares dropping below $4. Have banking catastrophes become so routine that it is now...

“Banks: We are making loans after bailout” CYA (cover you’re a… ) ?

“Banks: We are making loans after bailout” Senate panel concerned money is going toward compensation, acquisitions Story posted by msnbc.msn.com   I’m sure quite a few companies are trying to do a lot...

Are We Failing to Allow Failure? Is that a bad thing?

Is it the government's job to bail out any and every company that fails? Are businesses no longer accountable for their actions? Where do we draw the line? General Motors is the latest company begging for a blank...

Pelosi supports new help for ailing US automakers

The US has been rife with specualtion over whether the US government would inject huge amounts of money into the US auto industry in order to keep it afloat or let it die. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi...

AP FACT CHECK: Obama “Infomercial” Avoids Budget Realities

"Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was less than upfront in his half-hour commercial Wednesday night about the costs of his programs and the crushing budget pressures he would face in office....

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