30 January 2009
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
Lawmakers are looking for a quick fix for the banking and credit markets. No fix will be clean or easy. Every option comes with big hits to taxpayers, partisan bickering ...READ»
29 January 2009
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
All eyes are on the current recession, but we tend to overlook the many U.S. recessions we've survived since the Great Depression. They’ve varied in length and ...READ»
27 January 2009
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
We're now in the second week of the new Obama administration and his approval ratings are still hovering at a high 68%. In spite of facing enormous challenges, or more ...READ»
Read The New York Times, The Washington Post, or the domestic cable news websites, and you'd think the American economy was combusting before our eyes. Foreign newspapers, however, are much more sanguine on their English-language ...READ»
Microsoft's 5,000 laid-off employees are being joined by thousands more, this time from Texas Instruments, Sprint Nextel, Philips, Intel and tech giant IBM. The fact that Big Blue itself is shedding jobs is an indicator of just how ...READ»
PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Hennion and Walsh is pleased to announce the introduction of its SmartTrust[TM] Diversified Dividend Trust (2007 Series A), a unit investment trust (UIT) whose objective is to provide investors with the potential for capital appreciation and current dividend income.READ»
16 January 2009
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
I remember the good old days when banks used to lend money to “we the people.” Now we’re being forced to lend money to them. Not so long ago, banks were eager to get ...READ»
15 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com
We’re all aware of the calamitous mortgage crisis with consumers loosing their homes, bank foreclosures, the lending freeze and the rapid unraveling of the economy in ...READ»
Our string of job-related stories may be very timely indeed, particularly advice on what to do if you're laid-off--Motorola, Google, Microsoft and Seagate are all about to do some staff downsizing, or take a serious look at their ...READ»
12 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com
The economic downturn has hit businesses both large and small, boosting the number of bankruptcies to levels not seen since 1939. Growing unemployment rolls, losses of ...READ»
Remember when your grandfather believed he was “investing” in the future by purchasing shares of General Motors? Back then there was an the old saying, “What’s good for GM is good for America.” GM was the bluest of blue ...READ»
Arrogance will never die of course, but hopefully the last few months have set it back a pinch.
The Wall Street Journal had a remarkable piece this past weekend on the banking boom and bust of Iceland. An entire economy - currency ...READ»
5 January 2009
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
We’ve all heard the old adage, “it’s always darkest before the dawn.” But exactly when can we expect things to lighten up? There’s so much paranoia and ...READ»
31 December 2008
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
As we start the New Year, it’s time to glance in the rear view mirror and rejoice that 2008 is behind us. It was a tumultuous year during which nearly every aspect of ...READ»
30 December 2008
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
In the book I co-authored—The Big Gamble: Are You Investing or Speculating—I wrote a chapter during the first quarter of 2008 entitled, The Mother of all Crisis: ...READ»
29 December 2008
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
It wasn’t just autumn leaves that started falling last September; it was the entire investment banking system. When Lehman Brothers got into deep financial trouble and ...READ»
22 December 2008
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
What exactly was all this U.S. Federal bailout money—the Temporary Asset Relief Program (TARP)—supposed to relieve? Let’s review the highlights
First of all, ...READ»
18 December 2008
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
Wall Street was rocked when news broke that high-profile Bernard Madoff, a trusted former Nasdaq chairman and a man admired for his philanthropy, had bilked investors out ...READ»
14 December 2008
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
An epic fraud has just been uncovered – this time it doesn’t involve those new exotic and complex securitized debt/credit default swap packages. No, this one is a ...READ»
In times of economic challenges most people look at life from a position of what isn’t working as opposed to what is. Even more so, if you equate yourselves with what you do rather than who you are, and you’re struggling in your ...READ»
With the book’s release earlier this October, there seems to be a question nagging all of us in the back of our minds…How does the US economic situation fit into all of this?
Magnuson said that there are four things to look ...READ»
As an executive recruiter, it's my job to examine trends, gauge the needs of the marketplace and get my clients into jobs that will make the best use of their skill sets. When the process is firing on all cylinders, it is extremely ...READ»
For those that don't know the term 'barter', it is the oldest and simplest form of commerce known to Man. Bartering is the exchange of goods and/or services between parties without the need for cash. Example: "I'll trade you flooring ...READ»
A survey released by Intel [INTC] on Monday says that more people would be willing to give up sex than be without Internet access. It's interesting, but it's just not true.
News outlets from CNN to The Australian have been reporting ...READ»
Your current clients are going to be your best source of referrals. They're just waiting for you to ask. Here are 5 Tips to Help You Get More Referrals During a Global Economic Slowdown...READ»
