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InformedTrades profile image81

How to Explain the Subprime Financial Crisis Part 1

The first lesson in a two part series on the subprime financial crisis and how to explain what happened in a simple manner.

9 comments    stock market financial crisis
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How Non-recourse loans amplified the American Housing Crisis

Firstly, let me say that the current Real Estate situation in America is a humanitarian disaster. It will be many years before the market returns to 'normal' behaviour. It is hard not to feel for all those...

3 comments    real estate investing america
Marie Antoinette à la Rose, by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1783)78

Dusting Off the Guillotines

The news has been buzzing with anger over the $165 million in bonuses insurance corporation AIG plans to shell out to its executives, especially after the news broke that the majority of bonuses were going to...

19 comments    business money politics
Benjamin Franklin81

Did You Pay Too Much For Your Whistle?

In many ways, we only have ourselves to blame when it comes to the state of our economy and our current financial crisis. We share the blame with our federal government who allowed credit card companies,...

11 comments    money make money debt
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Global Financial Crisis and its effect

After the US was hit by cold, the rest of the world got sick. And that is what happening now. All sectors were affected by the financial crisis and one of them is the international labor market. Many people...

0 comments    business finance politics
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Carbon, Carbon, Carbon, Its all so confusing.

The debate about carbon centers around the central premise that excessive land clearing, agriculture, fuel emissions and the production of energy/electricity are causing green house gases and destroying the...

10 comments    government social trading
thecounterpunch profile image63

No I won't come back

Dear Fans, I don't want to be a hero - cimeters are full of that kind :) - or even a cheerfull leader, I want to stay an anonymous citizen. I know my voice is completely useless but I have said what I think...

10 comments    education politics financial
lindagoffigan profile image66

Postal Service May Cut to 5 Day Delivery

The United States Post Office is not a privately run business like United Parcel Service. The postal service works with the federal government; namely Congress to approve adjustments. Because of the world...

3 comments    financial government congress
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SCMP Issues & Implications: March 31, 2009

DONALD TSANG'S SINKING POPULARITY Out of a survey of 840 people: 11.8% were satisfied with the government's performance (this is a decrease pf 2.5% and the lowest since 2004, when Tung Chee-Hwa was Chief...

0 comments    thailand financial crisis cuhk
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Crisis investment portfolios

When it comes to the current economy many people are concerned about their investments because of the financial crisis. What they are worried about is if they are going to end up losing all of their hard...

0 comments    stocks stock market investments
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