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...

Introducing the Kavanagh-Putland Index

The Melbourne based Land Values Research Group is a great place to follow the debate between the two most influential and opposite theories of economics: Classical Political Economics, and the current system,...

Huffington Post more valuable than Canwest

"As long-rumored, The Huffington Post took $25 million in new funding at a $100 million valuation. It's a healthy sum given the company has aggregated a huge audience -- 8.8 million people a month, accordng to...

European Stockmarkets spooked by fresh credit crunch fears

London stock exchange opened with deep correction after the news of fresh credit crunch. Investors mood are turned sombre with similar news from other European exchanges. "Fears of fresh losses in the financial...

What's to love about LinkedIn?

I prefer face to face meetings, rather than internet meeting. But then that's me. What about you?" What's to love about LinkedIn? Melanie Lindner, Forbes Published: Friday, June 27, 2008 In the Internet age,...

£300BN WIPED OFF VALUE OF HOME

This news coupled with fact that tens of thousands of Britons were offered and took 100% mortgages when prices were high sees the possibility of many families losing their homes to repossession. The global credit crunch bites deeper."Britons have collectively seen nearly...

Rescued from a skip - the table which went under the hammer for £40,000

"A rare walnut table which was rescued from a skip has fetched £40,000 at auction. Shrewsbury-based auctioneers Halls said they and the owners of the flap-top table, a family from Powys, were delighted with the...

Leeds halt Marques contract talks

" Leeds halt Marques contract talks Marques broke into the first-team this season under ex-boss Dennis Wise (Getty) Leeds United have suspended contract negotiations...

Peeling the onion

"Over the past few weeks, I’ve offered up several short blurbs about the unraveling of the financial markets. To my surprise, it is a subject which continues to get only cursory media attention. Were it not for the coverage in the foreign press, a person might be persuaded...

Zillow Signs Deal With Newspapers

A very good tool that can only get better. Any homeowner interested in getting a ballpark home valuation should check it out."In what Zillow.com President Lloyd Frink is calling a "groundbreaking partnership," the Seattle online real estate startup has signed a deal to...

Facebook Chooses Microsoft Over Google

"Facebook Inc. will sell a US$240 million minority stake to Microsoft Corp., which as part of the deal will also expand the advertising services it provides to the social networking phenom, the companies said Wednesday in a statement. The size of the ownership stake Microsoft...

Internet Social Network Linkedin gets down to business

This is the network that Mac Evangelist Guy Kawasaki has been raving about on his blog: How to Change the WorldLooks like networking can be very lucrative for the innovators.LinkedIn started out back in 2003 as the only business-oriented social network. LinkedIn now has 8.5...

Rules regarding valuation of foreign exchange !

"Rules regarding valuation of foreign exchange ! I am non resident. My earnings are in Euro. Will the earning be converted in Indian Rupee and then gains or income will be computed? Please guide me. See under the Indian law, the rate of exchange to be adopted for valuation of...

The Last Days of the Dollar

"In 1966, I was traveling the Pacific aboard a freighter. I was 19 years old at the time and attending the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. As part of my academy education, I spent a year as a student officer on freighters, passenger liners, oil tankers, and...

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