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One in four American children on food stamps
in Sox First, on November 30, 2009
... needed is some tough Government action. That includes reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act to ensure banks can't play with other people's money, and make obscene bonuses along the way while the rest of...
Dubai: what's ahead?
in Sox First, on November 29, 2009
...n . This is likely to end up in the courts. Most of the foreign bondholders include big banks and hedge funds, including Citigroup and HSBC. Over the next few days, they are expected to appoint leg...
Bankruptcies soar with no recovery in sight
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
...er 30, 2009, business filings totaled 58,721. That's up a whopping 52%. Add to that data showing banks are tightening up even more and lending even less money. Lending has declined 3% in the third ...
The Dubai con job
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
... common. According to FT Alphaville , they all invested in get rich quick schemes in Dubai. So did banks like HSBC ($17 billion), Standard Chartered ($7.8billion), Barclays ($3.6 billion), Citi ($1....
Will Dimon replace Geithner?
in Sox First, on November 24, 2009
...tart, Dimon has taken a very different stance from the White House economic team on the question of banks that are "too big to fail". Writing in the Washington Post earlier this month, Dimon says t...
Seen that? - Self-Employed have CPP Woes Bigger Problem is Income Taxes
in Small Business Unplugged, on November 19, 2009
...ey will come at Small Business Unplugged B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and his B.C. Liberals said that if they cut taxes - the head offices will come. Well...
Cyber warfare to erupt
in Sox First, on November 19, 2009
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Banks and utilities will be on the front line when nations turn to cyber warfare, and there is evidence some of that's occurring right now, according to a new report. The report , by security...
New fair value rule to face test
in Sox First, on November 16, 2009
...h as loans, as well as debt and equity securities using fair value. Sox First will remember how the banks were screaming about fair value, claiming that it resulted in the market meltdown. As if it ha...
Taxpayers lose out on bank bailout
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
...t on the automotive bailout." But while the bailout has cost American taxpayers, it did enrich the banks who have been able to provide record Wall Street bonuses. As Jerry O'Driscoll, a former vice p...
Glass-Steagall and the market meltdown
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
...stration in 1933 to stop the Wall Street shenanigans that had ushered in the Great Depression where banks getting their own depositors to buy the stocks the banks were dealing. The idea behind Glass-S...
US unemployment to hit 13%
in Sox First, on November 12, 2009
...e problems for the Democrats as the GOP continue to gain ground. The problem, he says, is that the banks aren't lending money so companies can't expand and put on workers. "While we may be getting cl...
Seen that? - Hope for Africa?
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 10, 2009
... Basically, yes, but there are very different stages of microfinance around the world. In the U.S., banks that provide small business loans are [...] Read More An Apology...and a Little ...
Seen that? - Big Sur Bonanza #2
in The Outdoor Weblog, on November 9, 2009
... more? Paul Miller, a Friedman Billings Ramsey banking analyst, has told Associated Press that more banks will be lining up because the finance sector needs $1.2 trillion in capital. As journalist Dav...
Seen that? - Gordon’s Jewelers Grants Wishes
in The Jewelry Weblog, on November 9, 2009
... Gordon’s Jewelers Grants Wishes at The Jewelry Weblog If you're thinking of buying a little bling in the near future, then you may wa...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
...t’s a virtuous cycle. We have a social purpose." A social purpose? This is a spokesman for the banks that have destroyed so much wealth, that have put people out of work and have the left the global ...
Unemployment and the failed stimulus
in Sox First, on November 7, 2009
...anies building renewable energy projects in the United States — mostly wind projects and overseas banks are seeking to reimburse themselves with money from the package. The Economist says things w...
India goes for gold: dollar to lose out
in Sox First, on November 4, 2009
...billion for IMF gold , giving its bank the about the tenth largest gold holdings of all the central banks. At the moment, gold now makes up about 6% of India's foreign exchange reserves. You can bet...
Waiting for the crash
in Sox First, on November 2, 2009
...ersary of the stock market crash. October 29, 1929, or "Black Tuesday" was the day that resulted in banks collapsing and the once-roaring US economy sinking into the Great Depression. As we think bac...
Commercial real estate: an accounting shell game
in Sox First, on November 1, 2009
...ming now is the directive from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation saying examiners can let banks off the hook for non-performing commercial real estate loans. The directive says: "Financial i...
Seen that? - July 1 GST/HST Drops to 6% from 7%
in Small Business Unplugged, on October 31, 2009
...ey will come at Small Business Unplugged B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and his B.C. Liberals said that if they cut taxes - the head offices will come. Well...
Seen that? - An introduction to thin provisioning
in On Storage, on November 1, 2009
...you may ask? Well, investor introductions are made through occasional [...] Read More Banks Tighting Loans at Biz Plan Hacks According to th...
Seen that? - BIG SUR BONANZA #3
in The Outdoor Weblog, on October 31, 2009
... more? Paul Miller, a Friedman Billings Ramsey banking analyst, has told Associated Press that more banks will be lining up because the finance sector needs $1.2 trillion in capital. As journalist Dav...
Too big to fail is too dumb
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
... enshrines a system where taxpayers will be funding future bailouts. But isn't the problem that the banks got too big in the first place? Wouldn't it be just better to break them up, as Alan Greenspan...
Breaking up the banks
in Sox First, on October 28, 2009
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Should the big banks be broken up. Certainly the chorus from top financiers calling for a bust up is growing. Earlier this month, former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said the banks ...
Obama Focusing on Small Business?
in Bizinformer, on October 27, 2009
...iness Administration, and the effort the feds are undertaking to pump money into smaller, community banks. Of course, credit is a big part of the picture being discussed. Since the banks aren't loanin...
Over-valued S&P to tumble and the double dip recession.
in Sox First, on October 27, 2009
...ent of research firm Smithers & Co, says the S&P is over-valued 40% and is set to fall as banks sell shares to raise badly needed capital. And that will mean a double dip recession. Smither says: "Q...
Profits are a gift: Soros
in Sox First, on October 25, 2009
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The big profits made by the banks did not come through talent or hard work. They're just a free gift, says billionaire financier George Soros. In an interview with the Financial Times , Soros...
Pay cuts for auto firm executives. What about banks?
in Sox First, on October 23, 2009
...t feathering the nests of executives at these failed companies. But it's a different story with the banks and other financial services firms. The Economist reports that despite the fact that Citig...
Seen that? - Case studies in Micro Finance #1
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 21, 2009
... Basically, yes, but there are very different stages of microfinance around the world. In the U.S., banks that provide small business loans are [...] Read More More Case Studies, You Say...
Seen that? - Big Sur Bonanza #1: A Feast For Beasts of Sand Dollar
in The Outdoor Weblog, on October 21, 2009
... at Under My Helmet Earlier this year we took a trip to Gordon's Well. We brought Cz's gas quad with us, in the hopes he could get in some more prac...
Bailed out banks continue to live it up
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
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Like pigs at a trough, the US banks were wallowing in US government bailout but at the same time, they were handing out perks to their executives that had taken them to the brink of disaster. W...
The big gap: Wall Street bonuses and normal pay
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
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While banks have been castigated for their excessive pay levels, the pay gap between the so-called Wall Street superstars and ordinary wage earners is the elephant in the room. Some shocking ...
Endless unemployment and the new pledge of allegiance
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
...'t spending which means companies won't have enough coming in to start hiring. And in any case, the banks aren't lending so businesses can't expand. That means joblessness will be the new normal. "T...
Where is your server?
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on October 16, 2009
... one server kept in a closet, but for big business, even medium ones that store a lot of data (like banks) can need a serious amount of space.
Iceland just happens to have the best possible climate...
Deciding What You Can Afford in a House
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 13, 2009
...need 25% of monthly household income to cover your mortgage, real estate taxes, and insurance—the banks start out by being slightly more generous. Most banks lend at favorable rates if monthly costs a...
The Goldman Sachs lie
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...overnment. In the same week, we had the extraordinary news that it had raised its ratings of US banks to "attractive", claiming that these banks are under-valued. Why is Goldman Sachs talking up U...
Palm's Full Monty
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-09
...• CopyTrans Manager
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Four ways to create jobs in the recession
in Sox First, on October 6, 2009
... in the recession. The first is to use the stimulus packages and TARP bailout funds to switch from banks to public services that people need. Like, for example, schools, child health, public health a...
95 websites you should totally bookmark today
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-06
... You're F**king Wrong.)
• Ubuntu Karmic Koala preview
• A Small Business Guide to Wikis
• Kevin Rose confirms digg iPhone app
• Twitter Should Decentralize (And Make Money) Via Twitter Ser...
Seen that? - 10 shoestring principles for business
in BootStrapMe, on October 2, 2009
... massive impact that climate change will have on the financial services sector, particularly the banks.Now, global law firm Winston & Strawn has put out a briefing paper on the carbon principles b...
Writedowns reduced but bad loans to increase
in Sox First, on September 30, 2009
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First the good news! The International Monetary Fund has scaled back the global writedowns for banks and other financial institutions to a mere $3.4 trillion. So that's $600 billion less of w...
Unicom says to sell iPhones in China from October
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-30
...o 100K Users
• Apple's App Store Downloads Top Two Billion
• Sprint Banks on WiMax to Win Back Market Share
• Apple's Apps Flying Off the Virtual Shelves: 6.6 Million Downloads Per Day
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Pioneer CDJ-2000 (10P)
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-25
官方新闻稿：
NEW PIONEER CDJ DIGITAL TURNTABLES BRING THE ART OF DJING TO NEW HEIGHTS
CDJ-2000 and CDJ-900 Enable DJs to Access Their Music Directly from the Players
Long Beach, CA (September 17, 2009) - Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. Professional Sound and Visual Division, the leader in Pro DJ ...
The phoney bull market
in Sox First, on September 24, 2009
...corporate earnings, most corporations are still shedding workers and slashing payrolls. And the big banks still aren't lending to Main Street." Maybe the so-called bull market will continue ...
Swine flu "could kill millions"
in Sox First, on September 22, 2009
...pay for vaccines and antiviral medicines. Bloomberg reports that wealthy nations and development banks are being asked to donate to a $1.48 billion United Nations plan to help poor countries in lig...
Recession to last until 2012 - Stiglitz
in Sox First, on September 20, 2009
... out of the woods. There is reason to believe that there will be continue to be bankruptcies of the banks." Stiglitz has an excellent point: if the recession is over, where are the jobs going to...
The financial meltdown and tell-tale emails
in Sox First, on September 15, 2009
...ion with UBS which makes it very close to insider trading. That's bad news for other investment banks. "It's doubtful that this sharing of information between a rating agency and a Wall S...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
...et has not changed at all. As Stevenson Jacobs from Associated Press reports, risk taking for the banks is back with a vengeance with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and others - which received tens o...
A big week for the US economy
in Sox First, on September 13, 2009
...oblem is that the seeds of another collapse might have already been planted. You can bet that major banks will keep making bets that are now backed by taxpayer guarantees. And that means they will ret...
Facebook Lite 版正式上线
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-13
...ement
• TxtNinja
• It Threads Twitter Conversations
• PinPlot - Find Jobs, Computers, Video Games, Cars, Housing and Textbooks
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Banker lived it up on foreclosure
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
... bringing us the story that while the mortgage crisis has resulted in people losing their homes and banks closing down, there is one executive at Wells Fargo who has been living it up in the crisis. ...
The US consumer economy is dead
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
...0s until a year ago is smashed. Once-ravenous U.S. consumers are saving money and paying down debt. Banks are building reserves and hoarding cash. And governments are fashioning a new global financial...
Commercial real estate to create a new mortgage crisis
in Sox First, on August 31, 2009
...roblems hitting the commercial mortgage backed securities sector will damage what's left of the banks. WSJ reporters Lingling Wei and Peter Grant write: "Banks hold $1.7 trillion of commerci...
Up to 1000 more bank failures
in Sox First, on August 28, 2009
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Despite all the talk about good economic news, the plight of the US banks highlights the fundamental crisis confronting the world's biggest economy. And it's getting worse. According to ...
Banks bankrolling Congress
in Sox First, on August 27, 2009
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If you're wondering why the US Government and Congress have been so weak reining in the banks that have created such a diabolical disaster, look no further than this report put out by the n...
Loan deals Italian style
in Sox First, on August 24, 2009
...od producers plan to put up expensive wines and dry-cured hams as collateral on bank loans. Italian banks already store massive wheels of parmesan cheese as collateral so why not do the same with chia...
Readers Digest: another private equity failure
in Sox First, on August 18, 2009
...;s readership is dying off and young people are refusing to subscribe? That's a big bet by the banks and it's full of risk. If revenues stay where they are, and debt servicing is wound back, ...
Bankruptcies soar
in Sox First, on August 14, 2009
...ld. One of the most famous about to go under is British celebrity chef and master of the rude sneer Gordon Ramsay who, according to the San Francisco Chronicle , who has been advised to file for bank...
《特种部队》攻占票房冠军宝座
in YuleGuan, on 2009-08-11
灵感得自"特种部队"玩具的影片成为最新一部攻入好莱坞，并竖起自己票房冠军大旗的电影。
由派拉蒙(Paramount)出品的影片《特种部队：眼镜蛇的崛起》(G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra)灵感来自孩之宝(Hasbro)公司生产的动作玩偶。据制片公司周日的统计数字，该片全美首周末票房收入5,620万美元，夺得了票房冠军的宝座。该片海外票房4,430万美元，全球票房1.005亿美元。
另外一部面向成年人观众、由梅丽尔•斯特里普(Meryl Streep)主演的影片《朱莉与朱莉娅》(Julie & Julia)首周末票房2,010万美元，位...
The fiscal effects of A8 migration to the UK
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-10
...scal effects of A8 migration to the UK
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Sperm banking boom
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
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With the credit crunch, it's harder now for the banks to do business and make loans. But one type of banking business is booming. Sperm banks are doing a roaring business, according to this ...
Islamic banking booms
in Sox First, on August 4, 2009
...payment financing (bai bi-thamin ajil) and hire purchase finance (Bai' Al-Takjiri). A number of banks in the United Kingdom have Islamic windows offering Islamic financial products and in 2004, th...
Goldman Sachs reputation takes a hammering
in Sox First, on August 3, 2009
... has been badly damaged over the past year. According to commentators, Goldman Sachs still has that Gordon Gekko feel to it. For Goldman Sachs, greed is still good. Perhaps some of this will wear off...
Supply chain video: Supply risk in CIT companies
in Supplychainer, on August 1, 2009
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Sort of traditional options which he proposes are alternatives such as tapping into community banks and etc. but he also mentions newer options such as spend management, reduce bank credit risk ...
Putting the presidential squeeze on the mortgage firms
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 29, 2009
... companies should do everything in their power to support the program. Foreclosures are a burden to banks and lenders. They're a blight, too, on communities. We should all support anything that re...
The bailouts stink: Bernanke
in Sox First, on July 27, 2009
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The US Government bailout of banks left a lot to be desired. In the final analysis, the US Government rewarded excessive and dangerous risk taking by bailing out banks that deserved to be put out ...
Jewelry Sale at GordonsJewelers.com
in The Jewelry Weblog, on July 26, 2009
... Diamond and Gemstone Jewelry
Established on the principles of honesty and integrity , Gordon's Jewelers was founded in 1905 by Meyer M. Gordon. His store was the first general mercantile store...
Derivatives time bomb for big banks
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
.... Even more alarmingly, CFO.com reveals that 80% of the derivatives risk is concentrated in five banks: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley. In other wor...
Making mortgages easier to understand
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 24, 2009
...wers exactly how their monthly mortgage bills might change once the loan adjusts.
Many lenders and banks view the Fed rules as just one more unneeded layer of red tape. Most mortgage lenders already ...
Buffett cleans up on Goldman Sachs
in Sox First, on July 25, 2009
...;t doing much better. Goldman's results come from bigger risks and the concern is whether other banks will follow suit because of the allure of billions. Unless that problem is addressed, we could...
