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Dubai: what's ahead?
in Sox First, on November 29, 2009
...s had half-expected Dubai World to seek forbearance from its bankers, asking them to extend their loans. But they felt sure the emirate would make good on publicly traded instruments, and in particula... ...s a good take on how Dubai's creditors were taken in and fooled. The Economist writes: "Dubai’s debts are heavy, amounting to about $80 billion including the government and the conglomerates it cont...
Clearwire Raises $920 Million
in The Wireless Weblog, on November 27, 2009
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Clearwire this week announced that it has raised an additional $920 million in debt financing.
"The company had already nabbed $1.85 billion of senior secured notes due in 2015 to help...
The Dubai con job
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
... how Dubai was likely to join Iceland and go broke. It's about to default on billions of dollars of debt accrued to create that bizarre financial center out in the middle of the desert. The news has s...
Dubai goes for broke
in Sox First, on November 26, 2009
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Back last month, I did a blog entry looking at how Dubai was struggling to pay its debts. Now, it looks like the once opulent kingdom of Dubai could go the way of Iceland and go broke. Now, ...
US to pay $500 billion to service mega debt
in Sox First, on November 23, 2009
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry warning of worse times ahead with the US debt hitting $12 trillion. Just how bad is it going to get? As the New York Times warns, the US is now faci...
Seen that? - Self-Employed have CPP Woes Bigger Problem is Income Taxes
in Small Business Unplugged, on November 19, 2009
...tives still be in power to follow through their plan? I hope so, because without a reduction if net debt our economy will become increasingly inefficient. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty Thursday releas...
Students Take to Online Gambling to End Their Debts
in The Gambling Weblog, on November 19, 2009
...in the UK, has mentioned that, in some, instances, it has escalated to students blowing their whole loans online in an attempt to prepare for the debts. A lack of risk assessment, money management an... ...Gambling advisory service GamCare has warned that students, in an effort to relieve their growing debts, are turning to online gambling and in particular poker . One US study has apparently found th...
January Transfers Approach...
in The Soccer Weblog, on November 18, 2009
...tion just how many strikers Harry Redknapp really needs. Robinho may head to Barcelona on loan for a trial six months with the Spanish giants, where we would expect him to play much better than he ha...
Economy to get worse with debt hitting $12 trillion
in Sox First, on November 18, 2009
...im where the going is slower than expected . The US economy is facing a long hard haul back with debt levels now topping $12 trillion . That only adds to pressure on the economy from weak bank len...
Is China about to collapse?
in Sox First, on November 12, 2009
... problem is China's debt. As Fortune magazine reports, Beijing has shoveled $1.27 trillion in new loans into the economy. That's up 136% from the same period last year and the money has poured into ... ... up producing a massive amount of goods that it won't be able to sell. The big problem is China's debt. As Fortune magazine reports, Beijing has shoveled $1.27 trillion in new loans into the econo...
Seen that? - Business School for Startups?
in Small Business Unplugged, on November 10, 2009
...w-how," says COE manager [...] Read More How the Canada Small Business Financing Loan Program Can Help You Start or Grow Your Business at Small Business Unplugged ...
Dubai's Technosphere Concept Would Fit Right Into a Disney Park
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-02
...场所执行证据保全
• 27-inch iMacs reported to have Flash playback issues
• Google's fade-in homepage confuses
• How Google Voice Is Growing
• Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com
• Twitter Tri...
Commercial real estate: an accounting shell game
in Sox First, on November 1, 2009
...rtgage crisis with a soaring delinquency rate and building owners struggling to finance the massive loans they took out when the market was booming. What's even more alarming now is the directive ...
Pay Yourself First
in BootStrapMe, on October 27, 2009
... it’s hard. That money could be used someplace else. You could pay the phone bill, could pay down debt... The people at Get Rich Slowly look at the why and how of paying yourself first. And at the...
Seen that? - Why the SBA may not be the best bet for entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on October 23, 2009
...e Fortune Small Business Magazine, senior editor Richard McGill Murphy argues that the agency's loan programs reach less that 1 percent [...] Read More Balance especially important f...
Dollar to tumble even more
in Sox First, on October 22, 2009
...enback highlights the parlous state of the US economy. The Economist writes: "A country heavily in debt to foreigners, with a government deficit it is making little headway at controlling, is creatin...
Seen that? - Saskatchewan Business Tax Revamp Improves Outlook
in Small Business Unplugged, on October 21, 2009
... just over 25% in Alberta and [...] Read More How the Canada Small Business Financing Loan Program Can Help You Start or Grow Your Business at Small Business Unplugged ...
Seen that? - Case studies in Micro Finance #1
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 21, 2009
...ed to wonder how defined those words 'microfinance' and 'microcredit' and 'microloans' are. How different are these words? Are they all just saying the same thing, just in a di...
Endless unemployment and the new pledge of allegiance
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
...this report : "The new American Pledge of Allegiance: children, I pledge allegiance to America’s debt, and to the Chinese government that lends us money. And to the interest, for which we pay, compou...
How to Know You Made a Difference
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on October 13, 2009
...of the stories of people who need help and have a great idea. Then pick one entrepreneur to make a loan to. This is not a donation, its a loan. In other words the goal is to have your loan repaid.
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Dubai can't meet debts
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
...in this crisis. Now we have BusinessWeek reporting that Dubai does not have resources to pay its debts. The sheikdom and state-controlled companies cranked up $80 billion of debt building man-made ...
The Goldman Sachs lie
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...problem finding credit. Small businesses, on the other hand, have never had a harder time getting a loan ... I believe that we are only in the early stages of the second half of this credit cycle. I e...
A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
.... Writing in the Financial Times , Levitt says we need a system that ensures investors, long-term debt holders, lenders and management suffer pain commensurate with the risks they allowed an institu...
California - America's first failed state?
in Sox First, on October 4, 2009
...nia is like a patient on life support. At the start of summer the state government was so deeply in debt that it began to issue IOUs instead of wages. Its unemployment rate has soared to more than 12%...
Hyper inflation on its way?
in Sox First, on September 23, 2009
...in Wolf warns that "the U.S. government and British government will never mange their public debt problems. That means "there could be a real flight from these currencies and that would ge...
魔鬼辞典之金融危机
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-23
...大理论纷纷出台时的社会状态。这些理论常冠以宏大的名字，如《经济大萧条》(The Great Contraction)、《适度的终结》(The End to Moderation)和《泡沫时代》(The Bubble Era)，而它们实际上还是解释不了我们为什么处在这样一个无底洞中。
反馈循环 (FEEDBACK LOOP)，名词。一件事情的意义因为不断重复而放大的过程。出处：CNBC电视频道。...
The financial meltdown and tell-tale emails
in Sox First, on September 15, 2009
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Should UBS be held accountable for selling toxic collateralised debt obligations? The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS staff knew these debt securities were bad and sent off emails making t...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
...d pooling them with slices of bonds comprised of low-risk mortgage securities. With the blessing of debt ratings agencies, banks are then selling this class of bonds as a low-risk investment. The mark...
Will the dollar be replaced?
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
... long? The US dollar is effectively being kept on life support by countries like China buying up US debt. It's only a matter of time before before they put pressure on the US to move to a global c...
The US consumer economy is dead
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
...he 1980s 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 fin...
Commercial real estate to create a new mortgage crisis
in Sox First, on August 31, 2009
....14%, more than six times the level a year earlier, and building owners are struggling to refinance loans. As the WSJ says, the problems hitting the commercial mortgage backed securities sector will d... ...;Banks hold $1.7 trillion of commercial mortgages and construction loans, and delinquencies on this debt already have played a role in the increase in bank failures this year. But banks' losses fr...
Loan deals Italian style
in Sox First, on August 24, 2009
...pped Italian food 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...
Double dip recession looming
in Sox First, on August 24, 2009
...untouched they will be punished by the bond market. That will raise interest rates on their massive debt. Inflation could also rise. The second reason why we might be headed for a double dip recessio...
Who is buying up US debt?
in Sox First, on August 23, 2009
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Much has been said about China buying up US debt. China has accumulated the most US debt followed by Japan. But Caribbean countries? Luxembourg? They are in there among the top 10 debt holder...
Headed for the double dip
in Sox First, on August 20, 2009
...me. What that means is that the long term future is uncertain and we need to wind back the massive debt that got us into this mess in the first. There's no sign any of that's happened. As War...
Readers Digest: another private equity failure
in Sox First, on August 18, 2009
...r Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The latest bone-headed plan is to convert $1.6 billion worth of debt into equity. How feasible is that when the magazine's readership is dying off and young peo...
Lease accounting trouble looms
in Sox First, on August 16, 2009
...ount of liabilities on a company's balance sheet. This might force some entities to renegotiate debt covenants. As Tammy Whitehouse writes in Compliance Week , the new rules will cause all sorts...
Health care reform and a fat tax
in Sox First, on August 16, 2009
...ion is fueling obesity. A German study, reported here , found that one in four people seriously in debt were also obese. Only 11% of the 9000 people studied were not in debt were obese. The researche...
More Ways to Save Money While in School
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 15, 2009
...a distance learning situation. It will take a little more self-discipline.
Consider Your School Loans Wisely
I mentioned yesterday that you should get all the scholarships you can. If you still d...
Foreclosures dogging the middle class
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 14, 2009
...s that the couple is struggling mightily to pay their mortgage on time. They're hoping to get a loan modification from their mortgage lender. But so far — like many other struggling homeowne...
A Word of Caution about Balance Transfer Credit Cards
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 13, 2009
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While balance transfer credit cards appear to be an ideal way to reduce your credit card debt, you need to be aware that it may not be all that simple. In order for you to save money and get...
Loan clinic the cure for mortgage ailments?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 13, 2009
...res. Barack Obama has put an increasing amount of pressure on mortgage companies to restructure the loans of homeowners who are struggling to make their monthly payments. Many homeowners, though, have...
Mortgage rates on the rise, again
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 12, 2009
... that average stood at 5.26 percent.
This week, the average rate for a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage loan across the country hit 4.69 percent, up from 4.62 percent one week earlier.
If you're thin...
Family to lose home because of seven cents
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 11, 2009
...acing mortgage lenders, and with the current presidential administration working so hard to promote loan modifications designed to keep families from losing their homes, that Bank of America, the mort...
Odds are good you'll be "underwater" by 2011
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 10, 2009
...ot;underwater" by 2011.
No homeowner wants this. It's when you owe more on your mortgage loan than what your home is worth. According to a news story in the Victorville Daily Press, nearly ...
Spooks and the financial crisis
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
...uot; With the US wasting money on wars it cannot win in Iraq and Afghanistan when it is heavily in debt, it will be fascinating to watch the priorities of intelligence agencies develop....
US mortgages underwater
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
...rts that the US Government is considering plans to take hundreds of billions of dollars in troubled loans out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, stick them into a so-called "bad bank" and create...
What to do when those mortgage payments get hard to make
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 6, 2009
...rtgage payments? What if you've already fallen behind?
Your best bet is to call your mortgage loan officer. Immediately.
Your mortgage company doesn't want you to lose your house. It certai...
Loan modifications not fast enough for foreclosures
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 5, 2009
...seen some successes: Mortgage companies have offered to modify more than 406,000 existing mortgage loans, hopefully to keep homeowners from losing their residences to foreclosure. The program seems to...
Mortgage companies falling down on loan-modification help
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 4, 2009
...country's housing and financial crises. Many blame the companies for passing out risky mortgage loans to borrowers who never should have qualified for mortgage financing in the first place.
Now m...
Putting the presidential squeeze on the mortgage firms
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 29, 2009
... his team wanted to put some pressure on mortgage-servicing firms to do more to rework the mortgage loans that homeowners are struggling to pay. More loan modifications equals fewer foreclosures, in t...
Loan-modification program not meeting its goals
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 28, 2009
...program to reduce the number of home foreclosures across the country by modifying existing mortgage loans. Problem is, the program hasn't had the impact that administration officials had hoped for...
The looming credit card disaster
in Sox First, on July 28, 2009
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Credit card debt is the canary in the coal mine. It is the signal that tells us which way economies are tracking. And those signals are looking bad. USA Today reports that credit card debt is r...
Mortgage firms get to tell Obama their side of the story
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 27, 2009
...ming under intense criticism for not doing enough to help homeowners rework their existing mortgage loans into ones they can actually afford to pay.
Scan most newspapers' archives, and you'll...
Making mortgages easier to understand
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 24, 2009
...he collapse of the housing market. They approved borrowers who couldn't pay back their mortgage loans. They pushed other homebuyers to take out risky mortgage loans that these borrowers didn't...
Buffett cleans up on Goldman Sachs
in Sox First, on July 25, 2009
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US taxpayers did well when Goldman Sachs repaid US Treasury's TARP loan of $10 billion. According to Bloomberg , they made a return of 23% which is not too bad at all in any market, let alone...
More real estate culprits still making money off industry
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 21, 2009
...Yesterday, I wrote about a shady mortgage loan officer who is now working for a loan-modification company. This individual, who helped talk his clients into risky loan products that often landed them ...
Some mortgage villains faring quite well
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 20, 2009
...res taking place across the nation. And why are so many people unable to pay their monthly mortgage loans? It's because so many mortgage loan officers — paid, by the way, to watch out for th...
Banks misused TARP funds
in Sox First, on July 20, 2009
...he Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailout money for the banks is being used by banks to write loans, should check out this Washington Post report . Taxpayers money is being misused. The Post t... ...program will reveal that of the 360 banks surveyed, nearly half had used the money to invest, repay debt or buy other banks. While most say they had used some of the money for loans, the revelations s...
Sun Shareholders Approve Oracle Acquisition
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 20, 2009
...le is set to acquire Sun for $9.50 per share in cash, or $5.6 billion including Sun's cash and debt...
Neither Sun Chairman Scott McNealy or Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz attended the meeting, a...
Paulson, Goldman Sachs and the four tiers of US Government
in Sox First, on July 18, 2009
...ncial disaster a few years down the road. The next crisis could look something like the savings-and-loan mess of the 1980s, in which deregulated banks gambled with, or in some cases stole, taxpayers&#...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...isk trading and investing in everything from mortgages to commodities and underwriting of stock and debt offers. And that raises an obvious question: how long can they keep it up? Part of the success ...
An X-shaped recession
in Sox First, on July 14, 2009
...ecause the track we were on for years - featuring flat or declining median wages, mounting consumer debt, and widening insecurity, not to mention increasing carbon in the atmosphere - simply cannot be...
Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
...uity.
Another popular scheme involves groups using straw buyers to default purposely on a mortgage loan. The group then buys the property at a deep discount from a mortgage lender through a short sal...
Beware loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009
...try this one published yesterday by the Los Angeles Times. It details the devastating effects that loan-modification scammers can have on their victims.
The Times' story details the plight of a ...
Taking out a mortgage loan without going mad
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 6, 2009
...There's one secret to taking out a mortgage loan without losing your mind: Don't obsess over those mortgage interest rates.
Unfortunately, this is the one piece of advice very few borrowers l...
Did Palin quit to head off an embezzlement scandal?
in Sox First, on July 5, 2009
...e complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow." This stuff is politic...
It's getting tougher to get a mortgage-broker license
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 2, 2009
...ll far below where they stood just one year ago. Getting clients today isn't nearly as easy for loan officers. During the housing boom years, they could wait for their phones to ring with new busi...
