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DISEASE

Swine influenza is also called as Pig influenza, hog flu and pig flu & is an infection by any one of several types of swine influenza virus. Swine influenza virus is a strain of the influenza family of...

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CROOK ALERT 6--THE FORECLOSURE FACTORY IN THE MORTGAGE SERVICING RACKET 12-06

Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren makes the case for credit regulation. http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/05/making-credit-safer.html Mortgage Market Spirals Downward Storm Clouds Over Risky...

12 comments    foreclosures home loans cdos
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Guesstimates Won't Cut It Anymore--Gretchen Morgenson in the NYT 10-28-07

Excerpts from Morgenson article; The $30 billion in losses and write-downs taken by big brokerage firms in the third quarter are not likely to be the last. After last week it was no longer plausible to deny...

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Straws in the Wind 11-3-07

In a special meeting tomorrow (Sunday) Citigroup's board of directors is expected to fire the bank's CEO, Charles O. Prince. Prince will follow Stanley O'Neal Merrill Lynch's CEO who was fired last week in...

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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...

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So What Is a Structured Investment Vehicle (SIV) Anyway?

Structured Investment Vehicles, or SIVs have received much attention in the news lately as financial crisis continues to widen. Unfortunately, that attention hasn't included any kind of explanation as to...

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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...

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Stock Market Analysis for Sophisticated Investors Only

Hedge Fund Blues Merle Hazard Meets Arthur Laffer and Sings "In the Hamptons."

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