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Senators' Opposition Signals Fed Challenges

A week ago, Ben Bernanke's confirmation for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve appeared to be in doubt. But following strong lobbying by the White House, only 23 senators sought to block a vote on the nomination Thursday, including five D... Read >
Author: mosupman

Is it a Good Time to Buy Structured Settlements?

To buy a structured settlement in todays financial climate could be an interesting exercise in financial investing. According to Ben Bernanke, from the US Federal Reserve bank, the future is still far from certain. If you were to buy structured settlement... Read >
Author: Minbani

A Good Reason Not to Sell Your Structured Settlement in 2009

Christmas is upon us once again and this means we all spend money on our credit cards to pay for Christmas presents for our loved ones. If you are considering selling a structured settlement to alleviate some or all of this debt before or just after Chris... Read >
Author: Minbani

Blue Aisle Special: Commercial Real Estate

If you are an investor who is looking for a great bargain, you might want to set your sights upon commercial real estate. According to experts, an increasing number of investors are deciding to move their capital into real estate. Furthermore, they expect... Read >
Author: baxterowens

Summer is over and confidence is returning

As Dusty Springfield famously sang, "the world goes round without even a sound, and it looks like summer is over". Dusty was spot on regarding the second part of that lyric but the property and financial worlds were making plenty of noise over the pa... Read >
Author: torcana.com@gmail.com

U.S. HOUSING, DATA SHOW SEEDS OF RECOVERY

Larger-than-expected improvements in U.S. housing prices and consumer confidence on Tuesday lent new weight to signs the economy is emerging from the longest and deepest recession since the 1930s. U.S. home prices rose for the second month i... Read >
Author: zameensapna

Kenya finally feels Global Credit Crunch

Can you believe the term credit crunch has entered dictionaries already? Often defined as "a severe shortage of money or credit" who are they kidding, Kenyans, no Africans have suffered this so called crunch for years, even decades. So the West is taking... Read >
Author: Aaron Dixon

Ben Bernanke: Chief of the Economic Police Sector?

If it is not bad enough that the Fed has nearly infinite control over money and interest rates and are able to absolutely control the economy from an office building, the Obama administration is proposing that the Fed serve as a controller to detect activ... Read >
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Tips to Maximizing & Receiving Financial Literacy Grant Money

In today's economic environment, it is important we provide money management classes for teens and youth of all ages. Right now there are a lot of financial literacy grants available to fund nonprofits financial literacy programs. The financial prepar... Read >
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The Top 5 best performing public job sectors during the recession and beyond...

By Public Jobs Direct the public sector recruitment specialist Many officials and economists around the world claim that in spring 2009 the global economy passed the critical test for what lies ahead. Although, nobody can guarantee with certainty that ... Read >
Author: Public Jobs Direct

Po-lie-ticians

As a regular viewer of C-SPAN's Washington Journal program each morning, I have to tell you that the way most guest politicians respond to direct questions gives a whole new meaning to tap-dancing. I mean a caller to the show or sometimes the C-SPAN mo... Read >
Author: herbert348

Is The Recession Already Over? Or Is History Repeating Itself?

Last weekend a friend was telling me over dinner that there was no recession. He pointed to the fact that there was construction going on all around his well appointed neighborhood. In fact, he contended, the (non-existent) recession was probably the ... Read >
Author: John Whitefoot

The Bigger Picture

I want you to see the bigger picture, question everything you've been told and develop a coherent philosophy. Why? Because these are the ingredients to becoming wealthy, powerful and free. A few quotes to start off: Ben Bernanke, Federal Reser... Read >
Author: League of Power

Ben Bernanke Made Incorrect Diagnosis of the U.S. Economy

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve made a huge mistake in diagnosing the current economic crisis. As an old vanguard of the Great Depression school of thought, Mr. Bernanke sees an economic crisis as a result of deflation. S... Read >
Author: Clint Jhonson

How the U.S. Federal Reserve Lost Control of Mortgage Rates

Despite the United States Federal Reserve Board's diligent attempts to stimulate the economy throughout the year of 2008 by repeatedly reducing the Federal Funds rate, the typically correlating thirty-year average mortgage rate stubbornly remained unchang... Read >
Author: Brian S. Icenhower

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