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One in four American children on food stamps
in Sox First, on November 30, 2009
The deep divide in American society becomes wider. Wall Street is booming but, as the New York Times tells us, one in eight Americans and one in four children are now on food stamps. The NYT reports: "More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread...
Dubai: what's ahead?
in Sox First, on November 29, 2009
The Economist has 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 controls. Investors had half-expected Dubai World to seek forbearance from its ...
Bankruptcies soar with no recovery in sight
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
President Obama might be vowing a US recovery in his Thanksgiving address but don't expect it too soon. Probably not this term if the latest set of economic stats are anything to go by. Figures released by the US courts showing that bankruptcies are up 34.5% to 1,402,816 over a space of ...
The Dubai con job
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
What do Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Campbell, David Beckham and Denzel Washington all have in 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...
Will Dimon replace Geithner?
in Sox First, on November 24, 2009
The whispers are getting louder with the New York Post reporting that JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is emerging as the replacement for beleaguered Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. According to the Post, sources say policy makers are canvassing Dimon as a successor to Geithner whose reputa...
Tarifs promos pour la location de voiture en Afrique du Sud avant la coupe du monde de Football !
in Location de Voitures Blog, on novembre 20, 2009
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Un petit coup de pouce du destin (et de main de Thierry Henri) et la France ira donc laborieusement défendre ses couleur en Afrique du Sud lors du Mondial 2010. Si vous faites partie des supporters les plus intraitables, vous avez déjà sans doute votre billet et vos plac...
Cyber warfare to erupt
in Sox First, on November 19, 2009
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 vendor McAfee, says: "The critical
infrastructure of nation-states—banking and finance, electrical...
New fair value rule to face test
in Sox First, on November 16, 2009
Corporate disclosures are about to get a lot longer and a lot more complicated. The International Accounting Standards Board has released its revised set of rules dealing with the classification and measurement of financial assets, such as loans, as well as debt and equity securities using ...
Taxpayers lose out on bank bailout
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), otherwise known as the bank bailout or banking welfare program, has conceded that the program will result in a loss to taxpayers to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. Barofsky sa...
Glass-Steagall and the market meltdown
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
It's the 10th anniversary of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act . That's right, 10 years ago the Clinton administration abolished the Depression era legislation. Glass-Steagall was passed under the Roosevelt administration in 1933 to stop the Wall Street shenanigans that had ushered in the...
US unemployment to hit 13%
in Sox First, on November 12, 2009
We've been hearing lots of commentators say that US unemployment will peak at around 10% and that the recession is over. But former Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg says unemployment will hit 13%, the highest since monthly records began in 1948. According to this report , Rosenb...
Seen that? - Hope for Africa?
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 10, 2009
Hope for Africa? at Audeamus - How dare we... (Photo from USAID) On Sunday I caught the tail end of a World Debate on the BBC World Service where they were talking about microfinance issues in Africa. You can find the full show here at the BBC si...
Seen that? - Big Sur Bonanza #2
in The Outdoor Weblog, on November 9, 2009
Big Sur Bonanza #2 at The Outdoor Weblog I was feeling my oats a little bit that fateful morning. A recent string of sessions at OB had me pumped and overly confident. When we walked down to the bluffs to check it, we knew it was going to be big b...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
Hard to go past this interview with Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein in The Times where he claims bankers are doing "God's work". "We’re very important," Blankfein says. "We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital. Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows ...
Unemployment and the failed stimulus
in Sox First, on November 7, 2009
Back in January, US unemployment was sitting at 7.2% and commentators were saying a stimulus package would fix everything. It hasn't. The latest appalling figures show that US unemployment has hit 10.2%, a 26-year high. Worse still, the total unemployment figure including people who have ei...
Big profits: How Goldman Sachs bet on the US housing crash
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
Earlier this year, I did a blog entry on Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone on how Goldman Sachs had engineered market manipulation since the Great Depression. Now, McClatchy Newspapers investigative reporter Greg Gordon has a piece that really raises serious questions about the leg...
India goes for gold: dollar to lose out
in Sox First, on November 4, 2009
Extraordinary developments with India paying $6.7 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 that will grow substantially. The deal ha...
Waiting for the crash
in Sox First, on November 2, 2009
Just a few days ago was the 80th anniversary 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 back to the worst stock market collapse ever, it might be ...
Commercial real estate: an accounting shell game
in Sox First, on November 1, 2009
It wasn't that long ago that I was warning the commercial real estate market in the United States looked likely to trigger a new mortgage 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 ev...
Seen that? - An introduction to thin provisioning
in On Storage, on November 1, 2009
An introduction to thin provisioning at On Storage An introduction to thin provisioning: One of the more important but often misunderstood advancements within data storage is thin provisioning. This article defines and discusses thin provisioning,...
Seen that? - BIG SUR BONANZA #3
in The Outdoor Weblog, on October 31, 2009
BIG SUR BONANZA #3 at The Outdoor Weblog As far as I could see out to the horizon there were lined-up set waves. All those six to eight foot mush-burgers crumblers that were pushing us closer to the rocks were nothing but lull tasters. The real me...
Schon gesehen? - The Queen
in Kinoplausch, on 29.10.09
The Queen at Kinoplausch Kinostart Deutschland: 11.1.2007 Neben dem viel beachteten Start von Mein Führer von Dani Levy werden es alle übrigen neuen Filme in den Kinos an diesem Donnerstag schwer haben. Neugierig macht mich jedoch der Film The Que...
Michael Jackson's This Is It 首映（组图）
in YuleGuan, on 2009-10-29
影片《Michael Jackson's This Is It》昨晚首映，以下是来自各媒体的先期影评。据美联社(Associated Press)报道，为这部电影支付了6,000万美元版权费的索尼，在99个国家进行了公映，本周末将扩大到110个国家和地区。
作为一种不惹事端的公司行为，Michael Jackson的音乐电影《就是这样》以一种四平八稳的方式运作，予人的观影体验是偶有灵光闪现、整体平庸。……效果一般般，而不是像Elizabeth Taylor不久前有些热情过度地在Twitter上所说的那样(“我所看过的唯一一部最富才华的制作”)。──《泰晤士报》(The Times)
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Too big to fail is too dumb
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
The US government is moving on financial firms that are "too big to fail" and where the government has no choice but to "rescue" them when they get into trouble. Its plan is to make it easier for the government to seize control. The Financial Stability Improvement Act needs to be consi...
Breaking up the banks
in Sox First, on October 28, 2009
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 needed to broken up because they have become too big. Greenspan said: "If they’re too big to fail, t...
Obama Focusing on Small Business?
in Bizinformer, on October 27, 2009
Twice in October, President Obama aimed his weekly address in the direction of small business . The President discusses his move earlier this week to have the federal government increase the maximize size of loans available through the Small Business Administration, and the effort the feds are und...
Over-valued S&P to tumble and the double dip recession.
in Sox First, on October 27, 2009
Is the stock market over-valued? Can we expect it to fall again? In an interview with the Financial Times, which I blogged about here , billionaire financier George Soros warns that we can expect a contraction. "I think certainly there could be another dip in the stock market because, right...
Profits are a gift: Soros
in Sox First, on October 25, 2009
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 says soaring executive pay needs to be regulated because the banks have been getting hidden subsidi...
Pay cuts for auto firm executives. What about banks?
in Sox First, on October 23, 2009
How heartening to read the report in the Detroit Free Press that executives at General Motors and Chrysler will get pay cuts of up to 25%. Just to make sure the bailouts aren't feathering the nests of executives at these failed companies. But it's a different story with the banks and other...
Queen Elisabeth - großes Interesse an Kreuzfahrt - Debüt
in Kreuzfahrten, on 22.10.09
Also wenn Sie mich fragen, dann ist die Jungfernfahrt der "Oasis of the Seas" DAS Highlight im Kreuzfahrtbereich. Doch muss man ja fair sein, denn auch andere Reederein haben interessante Kreuzfahrtschiffe zu bieten. So beispielsweise die Reederei Cunard, die im kommenden Jahr die neue Queen El...
Seen that? - Case studies in Micro Finance #1
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 21, 2009
Case studies in Micro Finance #1 at Audeamus - How dare we... (Photo from ID21 Insights) A very good place for finding case studies, for those not aware of it, is Case Place. The only problem with the service is that quite a few cases are not avai...
Bailed out banks continue to live it up
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
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. While 8 million jobs have been destroyed in this recession, perks for executives at the bailed out ba...
The big gap: Wall Street bonuses and normal pay
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
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 revelations on this gap from the Huffington Post warrant some attention. Check out the chart! Inc...
Endless unemployment and the new pledge of allegiance
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
The latest figures show that jobless claims have dipped, suggesting the economy is on the mend but don't start celebrating yet. Dig deeper into the US economy and you'll see that there is a real sickness there that's hard to fix. As Tom Raum at Associated Press reports, high joblessness...
Where is your server?
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on October 16, 2009
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We all know that every transaction, every email, every little piece of information is stored somewhere. Normally we don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about it. It may cross our mind as we swipe a credit card but for the most part we just go along our merry way.
Even...
Deciding What You Can Afford in a House
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 13, 2009
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BusinessWeek looked recently at the decision making process for figuring out how much house you can afford to buy. While the National Association of Realtors Housing Affordability Index (that we talked about last time) assumes that with 20% down, you'll need 25% of mon...
The Goldman Sachs lie
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
How can you believe Government Sachs, I mean Goldman Sachs? During the week, Goldman's CEO Lloyd Blankfein told The Wall Street Journal
that the investment house received no special treatment in the bailout, despite the presence of so many Goldmanites in the top echelons of the US Govern...
Medizin-Nobelpreis 2009 an 3 US-Forscher fuer Erforschung der Erbträger beim Altern
in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on 10.10.09
Der Nobelpreis für "Physiologie oder Medizin" geht an drei Forscher in den USA. Sie haben entdeckt und erforscht, wie Chromosomen durch Telomere und das Enzym Telomerase geschützt sind. Das hat Bedeutung für das Altern und für Medikamente gegen Krebs.
Chromosomen, das sind die X-förmig ge...
Palm's Full Monty
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-09
• Palm's Full Monty
• What You Need To Know About the Palm App Distribution Program
• Over-the-air downloads come to BlackBerry
• Groundbreaking Agreement Between Verizon Wireless
• Google's Experimental Homepage Fades To A Single Word
• Verizon to release Android handsets
• Has...
Four ways to create jobs in the recession
in Sox First, on October 6, 2009
Unemployment in the United States will keep rising and will push beyond 10%. So how to fix it? And where can people find work? The Wall Street Journal reports that while it will be years before lost jobs return, health care and education will remain the key areas for jobs growth. These areas...
Seen that? - 10 shoestring principles for business
in BootStrapMe, on October 2, 2009
10 shoestring principles for business at BootStrapMe Managing editor Isabel M. Isidro's story entitled 10 lessons for every "shoestring" entrepreneur at PowerHomeBiz.com includes some important points for any business. However, some ...
Writedowns reduced but bad loans to increase
in Sox First, on September 30, 2009
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 writedowns. The bad news is that the number of bad loans will increase because of unemployment and p...
Unicom says to sell iPhones in China from October
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-30
• Unicom says to sell iPhones in China from October
• Nokia Acquires Dopplr
• WaPo's Social Media Guidelines Paint Staff Into Virtual Corner; Full Text of Guidelines
• Square Enix Japan To Cut 200 to 300 Jobs
• Zoho Projects : All Task Lists View and Few Enhancements
• AP Stylebook iP...
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
Is this a bull market or a bear market rally? Commentators like Clem Chambers at Forbes say the market rally seems to have all the hallmarks of a bull market. "Another good augur for a bull market is that no one is calling this,'' Chambers writes. "You really know the end i...
Swine flu "could kill millions"
in Sox First, on September 22, 2009
Swine flu could kill millions and throw the world's poorest countries into a state of anarchy, says a United Nations report leaked to the Observer . According to the report, the only answer to the problem is for the rich countries to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for vaccines...
Recession to last until 2012 - Stiglitz
in Sox First, on September 20, 2009
Forget all the talk from Bernanke that the recession is over. Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the recession won't be over until 2012, at the earliest. In an interview with Daily Finance , Stiglitz says we could be waiting for at least another three years. Even if th...
The financial meltdown and tell-tale emails
in Sox First, on September 15, 2009
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 that point quite clear. "OK still have this vomit?" one email said. Another email was just ...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
On the first anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, President Obama will be calling for quicker action on financial reforms. But will it have the desired effect? That's unlikely. Wall Street has not changed at all. As Stevenson Jacobs from Associated Press reports, risk taking fo...
A big week for the US economy
in Sox First, on September 13, 2009
Next weeks marks the anniversary of the turning point in the US economy with collapse of Lehman Brothers. And it's a big week ahead this week. In fact, this could be the make or break week for US stocks with a whole series of events scheduled for the next few days. CNN reports that on Mo...
Facebook Lite 版正式上线
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-13
• Facebook Lite 版正式上线
• New Final Fantasy XIII Footage Featuring Serah
• 纪念 911
• The future of Windows phones and Windows Mobile
• Motorola's big Android bet kicks off
• Facebook brings notifications to your Mac desktop
• 43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work
• More Mer...
Banker lived it up on foreclosure
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
Hats off to the Los Angeles Times for 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. According to that story, Cheronda Guyton, a Wells Fargo ...
The US consumer economy is dead
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
It had to happen. It's no great shock that Switzerland has overtaken the United States as the world's most competitive economy. The World Economic Forum also ranked Britain at number 13, well behind Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands. Also, the record plunge in b...
Voyager en Afrique du Sud en voiture de location, c’est agréable et pas cher!
in Location de Voitures Blog, on septembre 7, 2009
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Du 11 juin au 11 juillet 2010, les projecteurs du monde entier se braqueront sur la coupe du monde de football et le pays qui l'héberge. Car la compétition se tiendra pour la première fois sur le continent africain, en Afrique du Sud. Mais, que vous soyez fan de foot en r...
Commercial real estate to create a new mortgage crisis
in Sox First, on August 31, 2009
Be careful about this talk of recovery. Marc Courtenay at Seeking Alpha presents us a list of commentators saying this rally has a while to run yet. That's dangerous talk. Regardless of this talk, the reality is September-October are always dangerous times for the market. Lehman Brothers,...
Up to 1000 more bank failures
in Sox First, on August 28, 2009
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 a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) statement , the number of "problem" banks...
Banks bankrolling Congress
in Sox First, on August 27, 2009
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 non-profit Public Citizen group. According to the report, lobbyists and lobbying firms representing ...
Loan deals Italian style
in Sox First, on August 24, 2009
It's a sign of the times and just the kind of mouth-watering economics story that anyone would love. The Guardian reports that cash strapped 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...
Readers Digest: another private equity failure
in Sox First, on August 18, 2009
Another example of a private equity screw-up. Readers Digest, the media outlet that started in 1922 and made its name publishing condensed novels and edited articles from other magazines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The latest bone-headed plan is to convert $1.6 billion wor...
Cunard mit neuem Kreuzfahrt - Katalog
in Kreuzfahrten, on 11.08.09
Wenn eine Kreuzfahrt -Reederei wie Cunard mit einem neuen Katalog aufwartet, dann lasse ich es mir natürlich nicht nehmen, darüber zu berichten. Auf insgesamt 112 Seiten erfahren wir unter anderem, dass die Queen Mary 2 im kommenden Jahr gleich vier Mal den Hamburger Hafen anlaufen wird und vor a...
The fiscal effects of A8 migration to the UK
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-10
• The fiscal effects of A8 migration to the UK
• Could Greenland be the new Iceland?
• Should big banks be required to buy crisis insurance?
• YouTube Gets Smarter on the Small Screen
• ScriptGeni - Web 2.0 PHP web script and software | Automated Content Aggregators and Search Engine script...
Sperm banking boom
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
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 report . There's been a huge increase in inquiries from potential donors and most of them say i...
Islamic banking booms
in Sox First, on August 4, 2009
Back in May, I did a blog entry looking at how the downturn would create a number of competitive forces that would damage the banking sector. One was Islamic finance. The emphasis in Islamic finance on risk-sharing and prohibition of speculation has a fresh resonance given the failures of Wes...
Supply chain video: Supply risk in CIT companies
in Supplychainer, on August 1, 2009
Here comes another video on supply chain risk which I promise is going to be the last for a while (I am not obsessed with this area; it's just that it's such an importnat issue). Here, Drew Hofler, the supply chain guru talks about the effect of CIT companies going bankrupt on the whole ...
Top Tips for Expectant Mothers
in Next Nine Months, on July 31, 2009
Infanticipating? Elizabeth Stein , a leading midwife and women's health expert with 25 years of experience in fields of obstetrics, gynecology and women's health chares the following tips:
1. Vitamins : Take prenatal vitamins with folic acid and essential fatty acids, starting 2-3 mon...
Putting the presidential squeeze on the mortgage firms
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 29, 2009
In his more than six months in office, Pres. Barack Obama has shown a willingness to fight hard for what he wants. And what he wants now — besides the passage of health-insurance reform — is for mortgage service companies to do everything they can to keep homeowners from losing their hou...
The bailouts stink: Bernanke
in Sox First, on July 27, 2009
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 of business. It was not prepared to stand by and let the market do its work. Those bailouts did stin...
Derivatives time bomb for big banks
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
Derivatives, the weapons of mass destruction as Warren Buffett called them that nearly destroyed AIG last year, are still threatening the US financial system. The Wall Street Journal reports that more than half the 100 companies surveyed reported so-called "risk-related contingent featur...
Making mortgages easier to understand
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 24, 2009
Mortgage lenders have taken a lot of the blame for the 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 fully understand. This led to higher foreclosur...
Buffett cleans up on Goldman Sachs
in Sox First, on July 25, 2009
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 this one. But that's just lunch money compared to Warren Buffett's return. As the New Yor...
