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Topic: Financial Rescue Plans

  
ECONOMY   |  Comment

By Any Other Name, it's Still the Same

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»

ECONOMY   |  Comment

Bad Banks? Bad Idea?

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»

Hennion and Walsh News: Treasuries - Bonds Fall As Bailout Hopes Pare Safety Bids

"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»

BANKING   |  Comment

The Big Bank Balancing Act

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»

BAILOUT   |  Comment

Bailouts and Stimulus Packages: Missing the Mark

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»

ECONOMY   |  Comment

Banks: The Need to Get Personal

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»

SETH MYERS   |  Comment

Funny Business

How comedians clarify brain-fuzzing statsREAD»

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BAILOUT   |  Comment

Bailout, Bailout, Who Gets the Bailout?

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»

BANKING   |  Comment

Money Velocity- Inflation opening the door- Robin Tehan

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»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

How to Repair a Broken Financial World

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»

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DEBT   |  Comment

MyRichUncle is Out of Cash

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»

COMMUNITY   |  Comment

Geithner "Burned Billions," Shafted Taxpayers on CIT Loan

"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»

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CLEANTECH   |  Comment

Solar Power Shines Through the Economic Storm

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»

ECONOMY   |  1 comment

The Next Shoe to Drop: Commercial Real Estate

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»

ECONOMY   |  1 comment

Bonuses Versus the Big Picture

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»

ECONOMY   |  Comment

Market to Market Revisited

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»

BAILOUT   |  Comment

Bailout or reward to network

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»

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Visualization: What's a Billion, Here and There?

With all this talk of billion-dollar bailout programs, one information designer creates a chart that puts it all in context.READ»

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Evolutionary Economics: Bottom Up Solutions to Business Problems

A new science called evolutionary economics offers fresh insights into how the business landscape isn't controlled from the top.READ»

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ETHONOMICS   |  Comment

Cheering as my Roth IRA sags

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»

Kenan Samms

Returns: Don't BANK On It!

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»

Kenan Samms
APPRAISAL   |  Comment

A Wall to Push Off...

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»

Kenan Samms
ADVERTISING   |  Comment

Bankrupt Carmaker No, Bankrupt Airline Yes?

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»

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If You're Not Furious Over the Bank Bailout, Read This

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»

Uncle Sam

Government Funding for Startups Really Does Exist, Uncle Sam Ponies Up $2.5B in Q3

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»