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Top Stimulus Package Hot Jobs without Experience

Announcements hit the Internet in June 2009, naming the Top Stimulus Package Jobs for high wages in the USA through 2012, and the list of occupations stated may not include all such positions. In addition,...

8 comments    barack obama stimulus package
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What is a CDO

A rather popularized description of CDOs (Collateralized Debt Obligations) can be found at portfolio.com (check below). It has lots of nice animation and pictures. The real definition of a CDO. ...

0 comments    finance politics mortgage crisis
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Are You Ready for the Next Mortgage Crisis 2010?

The United States sub-prime mortgage crisis 2009 is behind us. But an Option ARM mortgage crisis 2010 is on the way. The United States economy appears to be improving. Housing sales continue to rise. Home...

1 comment    mortgage crisis mortgage crisis 2010
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Which banks are in the most trouble now?

After Friday afternoon's news that IndyMac Bancorp was being taken over by the government and then reopened yesterday under the new name IndyMac Federal Bank, the worry on Wall Street and Main Street has grown...

18 comments    finance loans banks
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Mortgage Market Crisis/A Failure to Manage Risk/Economic Outlook Grim

Economic Outlook--Slow Motion Recession Plummeting home prices and car sales, rising foreclosures, accelerating joblessness, tight credit, expected FEDERAL RESERVE interest rate increases. 2 years of sub-par...

7 comments    financial crisis mark zandi
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Statistically, how does America's current state compare to right before the Great Depression?

The differences between 1929 and today are so far apart in social circumstance, that a true comparison is nearly impossible. Banking was vastly different, requiring that all loans be backed by equal, or...

1 comment    life finance politics
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9-19-08 Crisis End Game--Paul Krugman NY Times

Op-Ed Columnist Crisis Endgame By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: September 18, 2008 On Sunday, Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, tried to draw a line in the sand against further bailouts of failing financial...

29 comments    stock market recession aig
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Subprime Home Mortgage Crisis

"We forgot there was a lot more risk in the strategy," said one State Street executive." The State Street Corporation which manages $2 trillion for pension funds and insurance companies fired a senior...

11 comments    bank of america warren buffet
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The fall of the investment banking industry. Will Goldman and Morgan survive?

Rewind backward by just a couple of years and take a look at the investment banking industry on Wall Street. Everything was humming along quite brilliantly with no apparent signs of distress. There were at...

0 comments    finance bankruptcy goldman sachs
We are now seeing the fallout from the dangers of derivatives.69

The Downside of Derivatives Abuse

In my hub about the Subprime Mortgage Crisis I introduced the topic of derivatives and how they played a major, major role in getting us into the worldwide financial "mortgage crisis." My point of that article...

4 comments    business wall street subprime
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