BYjose Roncal Relevancy Score: 100 Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comNationalization. The word makes one shudder! It might even drudge up old images of the hammer and sickle or Mao's men marching in khaki uniforms! We've already mentioned the ...READ»
BYjose Roncal Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Feb 2, 2009 at 12:37 PM
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»
BYHennion and Walsh Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Jan 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM
"A lot will hinge on the passage of a rescue plan, the sooner the better. It remains an uncertainty in the market," said Kevin Mahn, chief investment officer at Hennion & Walsh Inc. in Parsippany, New Jersey.READ»
BYjose Roncal Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM
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»
BYjose Roncal Relevancy Score: 99 Thu Jan 1, 2009 at 9:29 PM
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»
BYjose Roncal Relevancy Score: 88 Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comWhile the G-20 world leaders meet and discuss ways to reverse the deep global recession, others like Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor, focuses on what's happening back ...READ»
BYTom Stern Relevancy Score: 71 Tue Nov 25, 2008 at 11:43 AM
It might be time for government to stop proposing bailout packages for multinational banks, and throw the cash at the retail sector instead. With a little capital, maybe our nation’s stores could finance new and exciting ways to get people back in the holiday shopping groove.READ»
BYRobin Trehan Relevancy Score: 65 Sat Sep 19, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Financial Collapse with printing money – with inflation on the dollar.
Bailing out Wall Street friends will not help Americans people as inflation will creep in with the money hitting with the bailout. The bailout can even turn ...READ»
BYCorey Blay Relevancy Score: 64 Sun Feb 22, 2009 at 8:57 AM
By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN
Continued from "The End of the Financial World As We Know It"
Mr. Paulson must have had some reason for doing what he did. No doubt he still believes that without all this frantic activity ...READ»
BYAnya Kamenetz Relevancy Score: 63 Mon Feb 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM
MyRichUncle was an intriguing startup student loan company with an innovative, white-knight approach when I wrote about them in the 2006 Fast Company 50.
When I talked to them, the two 20-something founders seemed cocky, but sincere. ...READ»
"William Black, professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law is dumbfounded. 'We put ourselves on the hook in a completely inept way where we lose first. We lose entirely as the taxpayers.'
Black, a ...READ»
BYGlenn Croston Relevancy Score: 56 Fri Oct 10, 2008 at 2:36 AM
With the news full of failing banks, dried-up credit and falling stock markets, it’s no shock that people are afraid about what’s ahead, entrepreneurs included. And yet even in the midst of all this, the opportunities ahead are ...READ»
BYjose Roncal Relevancy Score: 54 Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 4:18 PM
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»
BYjose Roncal Relevancy Score: 50 Tue Feb 3, 2009 at 3:11 PM
2 February 2009
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
On his ninth day in office, President Obama took a broad swipe at Wall Street, calling the $18.4 billion in bonuses for 2008 "the height of irresponsibility" and ...READ»
BYjose Roncal Relevancy Score: 49 Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comLast October we wrote an article explainingMark-to-Market Accounting. The article gave a basic overview about what Mark to Market means, how it works, and the pros and cons. It was a ...READ»
BYdavinder singh Relevancy Score: 48 Wed Nov 26, 2008 at 3:03 PM
There is money involved and the priority of nation seems to be capital. The President elect announces economy or bail out team first. If that is the CHANGE then I would like to announce a welcome change to disaster.
A look at some of ...READ»
World at Work has a nice definition of work-life that I really like. They define it broadly and include "community involvement" in their definition.
So although it may be a bit of a stretch, I do think this fits under the ...READ»
BYDavid S. Waddell Relevancy Score: 46 Sat Jan 24, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Anxieties around the banking sector have once again paralyzed the markets. With Citigroup and Bank of America trading like lottery tickets and negative surprises emanating from State Street and others, we seem to be right back ...READ»
BYSteve Curnutte Relevancy Score: 46 Wed Nov 26, 2008 at 12:26 AM
To intervene or not to intervene. That is the raging debate on our satellites. That is the raging debate around our water coolers. ‘Let them fail!’ or “They are too big to fail.’ But it is far deeper and more subtle than ...READ»
With the Detroit bailout now a wreck, the refrain from the impacted carmakers is that a the money is still necessary, because "consumers won't buy cars from companies in bankruptcy."But they readily flew bankrupt airlines. For ...READ»
BYChris Dannen Relevancy Score: 45 Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Provisioned within the stimulus bill is a salary cap for executives of any bank that receives federal money through the TARP program. Instead of taking home millions, the top brass will be limited to $500,000 in total annual pay. ...READ»
BY ChubbyBrain Relevancy Score: 44 Thu Nov 12, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Amid the spam, books, and late night TV infomercials promising inside information about little known government programs and free money, there actually is cash out there for your business.READ»