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| Stop the madness that's killing jobs |
| 07/03/09 10:31 AM EST | Government |
| "Why is this job decline happening? The private sector - the real engine of economic and job growth - won't hire because it's scared of what it sees coming out of Washington. On the horizon, as far as the eye can see, are higher taxes, uncontrolled spending and layers upon layers of new regulations. Who would hire new workers faced with that?" |
| More Government: Cash-poor California turns to IOUs |
| Why isn't the stimulus stimulating? |
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| New evidence on the foreclosure crisis |
| 07/03/09 10:30 AM EST | Real Estate |
| "What is really behind the mushrooming rate of mortgage foreclosures since 2007? The evidence from a huge national database containing millions of individual loans strongly suggests that the single most important factor is whether the homeowner has negative equity in a house -- that is, the balance of the mortgage is greater than the value of the house. This means that most government policies being discussed to remedy woes in the housing market are misdirected." |
| More Real Estate: U.S. home prices down 18% |
| A recession measured by new-home sales |
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| You've got blackmail |
| 07/02/09 10:25 PM EST | Crime |
| "My advice: If AOL comes after you, then go after AOL." |
| More Crime: More brazen than Madoff? |
| Stanford attorney's exit 'screams fraud' |
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| Cash-poor California turns to IOUs |
| 07/02/09 10:08 PM EST | Government |
| "Here come the California IOUs. Unable to meet its bills for the second time this year, the state started printing IOUs on Thursday. Some 28,750 IOUs worth $53.3 million will be issued initially, mainly for personal income tax refunds." |
| More Government: Why isn't the stimulus stimulating? |
| Ghost cities may be bulldozed |
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| U.S. home prices down 18% |
| 06/30/09 10:54 AM EST | Real Estate |
| "The 10-City and 20-City Composites declined 18.0% and 18.1%, respectively, in April compared to the same month in 2008. These are improvements over their returns reported for March, down 18.7% for both indices." |
| More Real Estate: A recession measured by new-home sales |
| Return to 0% down |
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| GICs are safe, but don't expect much |
| 06/27/09 4:50 PM EST | Thrift |
| "So what's the lesson? First, fees matter a great deal. Second, while a stock-filled portfolio may provide higher returns, that comes with risk. A GIC-only portfolio may not be exciting, but investors sleep well at night. " |
| More Thrift: The end of personal finance |
| Haggle your way to extra |
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| Why isn't the stimulus stimulating? |
| 06/27/09 2:09 PM EST | Government |
| "It's no secret that the Obama administration is deeply troubled by the continuing rise in unemployment. The national unemployment rate has risen to 9.4% from 7.2% in December and 5.5% in May 2008. The number of employed workers has fallen to 132 million from 135 million in December and 137.5 million in May 2008. Unemployment animates Democrats the way taxes animate Republicans--it's the issue that is important to them above all others. It's also the issue on which the Obama administration believes voters will primarily judge it in 2012. The recent dip in Obama's poll ratings could easily become a collapse if the economy doesn't turn around soon." |
| More Government: Ghost cities may be bulldozed |
| California's economy: too big to fail? |
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| Exotic ETFs are toxic ETFs |
| 06/27/09 1:29 PM EST | Indexing |
| "Just as the exotic charms of Cleopatra confounded Julius Caesar, the foreign wiles of Delilah did for Samson and the mystique of Heather Mills. fake leg ensnared Paul McCartney, so the mysterious allure of the exotic ETF is undermining the original purpose of these investment vehicles. As usual the investment industry has worked its magic and turned a really useful investment tool into a method for speculating in snake oil." |
| More Indexing: Investors are getting killed in ETFs |
| Know what you own |
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| A recession measured by new-home sales |
| 06/27/09 1:08 PM EST | Real Estate |
| "There have been bad housing markets before, but never in post-World War II history has the market for new homes suffered as badly as it has in this decline." |
| More Real Estate: Return to 0% down |
| A 3rd wave of foreclosures |
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| Ghost cities may be bulldozed |
| 06/18/09 4:32 PM EST | Government |
| "The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature." |
| More Government: California's economy: too big to fail? |
| No bond safe from Obama |
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| Investors are getting killed in ETFs |
| 06/18/09 4:15 PM EST | Indexing |
| "A new analysis by Vanguard Group founder John Bogle indicates that investors are generally making poor decisions when buying and selling exchange-traded funds." |
| More Indexing: Know what you own |
| Is Vanguard sailing in uncharted seas? |
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| California's economy: too big to fail? |
| 06/17/09 4:31 PM EST | Government |
| "Though few experts think California will default on its debt - following the example New York City set in 1975 and Cleveland in 1978 - the mere possibility is troubling for the credit markets. "If California truly defaults, I am sure it will shake the faith of bondholders and noteholders in the overall municipal finance system," says Dan Boyd, senior fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government. "That would undoubtedly lead to higher issuance costs to additional state and local government loans."" |
| More Government: No bond safe from Obama |
| The peril of 'buy American' |
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| Obituaries offer short-sale tip sheet |
| 06/15/09 3:31 PM EST | Markets |
| "What they found from their worldwide study of 8,191 companies and 122 sudden deaths since 1973 was a 1.7 percent decline in geographically connected firms, meaning those companies headquartered in the town in which the politician was born or lived." |
| More Markets: Risk-management pioneer |
| The Liquidity Premium |
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| Know what you own |
| 06/15/09 3:09 PM EST | Indexing |
| "While the rest of the investment industry (open-end and closed-end funds) comes under consistent scrutiny, the ETF industry to-date has largely escaped a hard look. However those times just might be changing." |
| More Indexing: Is Vanguard sailing in uncharted seas? |
| Currency hedging |
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| Philip Morris gets its tobacco bill |
| 06/15/09 3:07 PM EST | Stocks |
| "The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act is revealed as yet another Beltway deal for Big Government and Big Business. Those who proclaim it a victory for public health and the public good are blowing smoke." |
| More Stocks: Why you should be long the NYT |
| Investor exits and leaves puzzlement |
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| Is Vanguard sailing in uncharted seas? |
| 06/14/09 5:38 PM EST | Indexing |
| "What on earth was Vanguard thinking? That is what investors in Vanguard Group, the nation's largest mutual-fund company by assets under management, have been asking ever since Vanguard emerged as one of the bidders for the iShares family of exchange-traded funds last month." |
| More Indexing: Currency hedging |
| Nine basis points! |
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