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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE financial crisis is likely to add up to £1.5 trillion to the national debt, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said. The surge comes from the huge liabi
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE financial crisis is likely to add up to £1.5 trillion to the national debt, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said. The surge comes from the huge liabi
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Amazon lists 3465 books about the credit crunch. But only one gives a minute by minute account of the key characters the shouting the text messages and the furious meetings.
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Against Monopoly (Free subscription) | yesterday
The victims of the Great Recession keep emerging from the carnage wrought by the big financial players. This one comes from the "retirement communities" link here . People buy into them thinking that all is well for their old age. It may not be, as a number of the companies had big plans to provide services they can no longer finance or have made guarantees on deposits that are now controlled...
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The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
moneyscience: Lessons for the foreign exchange market from the global financial crisis - http://bit.ly/2kO7zF
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Latest News Current Issue (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The average increase was 8.2 basis points.
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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
It saved the overall economy from something much worse and for Wall Street, it saved them from complete ruin. The problem now is that because no strings were attached (even now, it's weak) Wall Street sleeps comfortably, knowing that no matter how crazy they behave, the US government will be there to back them up, again. The risky bets are back as are the fat bonuses courtesy of the expensive guarantee....
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Offshore Banking Services - The Privacy Trap (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
For entrepreneurs, the most powerful silver lining behind the devastating financial losses of the banking meltdown is to think about your business with the money-making mindset of a banker. The most important financial insight business entrepreneurs can learn from bankers is that bankers know that they are in the money-creation business.
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Conglomerate (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Floyd Norris says yes, and I must say I'm surprised. Despite the raft of academic criticism about Sarbanes-Oxley, it is...
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e-Trade Bangladesh (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In this Wharton Leadership Lecture, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain offers his opinions as to what caused the crisis, what can be done to prevent it from happening again, and when it will be over — not just for the financial industry but also for Main Street. This is the third and final video [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
THE Namibian Stock Exchange (NSX) might get the help of the Financial Times and London Stock Exchange (FTSE) to limit the local bourse's over-exposure to certain listings in volatile times like the recent global financial crisis.
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Could Cap and Trade Cause the Next Subprime Mortgage Scale Financial Crisis? Photo via First Strung A new report from the Friends of the Earth says that cap and trade systems are dangerous. They allow traders to package emissions permits into complex financial products and sell them in bundles–much like they did with subprime mortgages. And [...]
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Jesse's Café Américain (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Here is a longer term chart of the SP 500 showing the decline with the unfolding financial crisis, and the rally from the first major market bottom in equities. The rally has been a nearly perfect 50 percent retracement. Here is the same view of the SP 500 but deflated by the Euro. This puts the rally into a slightly different perspective, which is not nearly so dramatic, about a 38.2% retracement...
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wposteruk | 18/09/2009
Since the beginning of the financial crisis caused by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, there's just one year, the attitude of traders has not really changed. It seems they were content to let the storm pass and are still as influential in the world of finance More ... (more. ..)
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ifp | 06/05/2009
The present global financial crisis does not seem to be having a significant impact on the outlook of recent international buyers of French property. On the contrary, according to a recent survey carried out by French bank BNP Paribas, there remains strong confidence in the French housing market, with over 90% of buyers from overseas who bought property in France in the last three years who consider
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westonalan | 09/03/2009
It was only a matter of time before the credit crunch would take effect and we'd find out who was to blame. It seems that the Bankers are the ones being blamed by the Government and the Media. But, to be honest I believe that there are many others who have had a part to play in this world wide financial crisis. Very little as been said or mentioned in the news about the others who have fuelled the...