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Pay for Health Care NOT with Taxes but by Engendering Competition
Wallet Blog | December 4th 2009 by Ody
The latest version of the health care reform bill, sponsored by congressional Democrats, offers a mixture of both productive and counterproductive methods of gaining the necessary revenue to make affordable national health care a possibility. Howeve read more
McCarthy-McCotter BCC Notes
California Conservative | December 4th 2009
Thursday afternoon, I participated in a blogger conference call with Assistant Minority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Thad McCotter. It was immediately understandable why Rep. McCotter is the Chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee. The read more
Jobs Summit Farce
MAInfo | December 4th 2009 by Opus #6
Obama's Jobs Summit?Who Came: Unions. Economists who wrote the first "stimulus" package.Who Was Not Invited: The United States Chamber of Commerce.What? Obama continues to make himself look like the small man that he is by not EVER working with hi read more
Book Review – The Myth of Individualism
The Global Sociology Blog | December 4th 2009
In my never-ending pursuit of sociology books that I could use in my introduction classes that would show sociologists “in action”, I stumbled upon Peter Callero’s The Myth of Individualism – How Social Forces Shape Our Lives. read more
Top Economist: Job Creation Made Hard By Obama
TONY PHYRILLAS | December 4th 2009 by Tony Phyrillas
The real unemployment number is far worse than what the government is reporting and the Obama Administration is all wrong in its approach to putting people back to work, argues noted economist Robert Samuelson.While Obama inherited a bad economy, his read more
CHINA: Rural Pension Plan Takes Off
Seniors World Chronicle | December 4th 2009
.SHANGHAI, China / China International Business Magazine / Economy / December 4, 2009By Isabel Ding Millions of aging rural Chinese — especially those over 60 years old — may no longer need to worry about their income after retirement. The Chines read more
Rules To Build A Basic Stock Portfolio
Financial Tips and Tricks | December 3rd 2009 by ctrlshift
Our contributing writer, Tim Parker, is a stock picker who’s built a basic stock portfolio. Here, he explains his stock investing strategy. If you’re interested in The Digerati... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for f read more
ACC: Mirrors smashed and smoke dispersed
Frog Blog | December 3rd 2009
NZCTU economist Bill Rosenberg has debunked the supposed “financial crisis” facing ACC that Nick Smith is relying on to gut cover and entitlements to set it up for privatisation. Here’s Rosenberg’s take on it: ACC’s reserves are read more
Lend America Shut Down, FHA Urged to Complete Loans
Real Estate Blog Magazine | December 3rd 2009
Get on it, FHA! This week, Lend America was disqualified from lending FHA backed loans due to submitting false documents and completing loans that didn’t meet FHA requirements (leading to $512,500 in fines and Lend America shutting their doors read more
Signs of a stabilizing economy?
VDM Trading | December 3rd 2009 by John
For awhile I’ve been trying to figure this one out. This particular pair is pretty complex, because there are so many factors pulling and pushing it. I guess you can say that with any pair but this one is very noticable to me since I’ve read more
Job Summit: Obama wants new ideas for creating jobs
American Conservative Values Journal | December 3rd 2009 by James Rice
President Obama held his job summit meeting today and honestly the only thing worth noting: he doesn’t have a clue what it takes to create jobs. Obama had challenged his audience to help him come up with innovative ideas for putting millions of read more
ROCKET STOCK…. MOLD-TEK PLASTICS LTD; At 37/-; TARGET 55/-; 75…
OnlineEquityCalls.com | December 3rd 2009
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Goldman Proves Best With Hatzius Divining Economy You Can Trade
The Cynical Economist | December 3rd 2009
From Bloomberg By Bob Willis When forecasters look back at the chain of disasters that brought down the U.S. economy during the past two years, one indicator stands out: employment. Jan Hatzius, chief U.S. economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., sa read more
Singapore and Dubai, alike yet so different — Oh Boon Ping
Singapore News Alternative | December 3rd 2009
The Malaysian Insider, 4 Dec 2009Singapore, which is fundamentally strong, is now bracing itself for an economic recovery next year, while debt-ridden Dubai finds itself under the spotlight due to its credit woes.But as recently as four years ago, Du read more
Tony says we need to re-tool and take advantage of this financial…
Chatter | December 3rd 2009 by Patty Soffer
Draw the line in the sand and say NO MORE! Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy read more
He's So Historic: Black Unemployment Hits Great Depression Levels
Doug Ross @ Journal | December 3rd 2009
The proverbial 'grim milestone' that you won't see reported in your local paper is instead offered up by the Black Voice News.In what is being portrayed as a direct rebuke of the White House's lack of response to the deepening unemployment meltdown, read more
Arroyo ally taunts: OK, she quits; Noli takes over, boo!
The Wutzup in the Philippines | December 3rd 2009 by valerie watson
MANILA, Philippines — Trust this ally of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to trot out a handy bogey in her defense. Apparently to defuse the impact of former President Fidel Ramos’ call for Ms Arroyo to step down now after she filed her certific read more
The Right Way to Build a Green Car?
An American Lion | December 3rd 2009 by norman rogers
The Fisker Karma This one is blue, but it’s actually green, and it’s a Fisker. Never heard of it? Neither had I, until I was stumbling through another confusing day on the Internet. Sounds like someone remembered how to build, market, and read more
RP to post 0.9% growth in Q4: NEDA chief
PinoyWEB! everything pinoy.. | December 3rd 2009 by Eugene
MANILA – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) expressed confidence that the Philippines will post a 0.9% growth in the last 3 months of the year despite the large impact of recent typhoons on the country’s economic outpu read more
Bernake's Confirmation Is........On Hold.
The Pissed Off Citizen | December 3rd 2009 by TPOC
On Thursday, December 3, 2009, Congressman Paul appeared on MSNBC's "The ED Show" to discuss Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's nomination hearing for a second term, as well as the need to Audit the Fed.Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) questions Federal read more
Senator Jim Bunning: failures of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Ber…
CHESSNOID random noid musings | December 3rd 2009 by CHESSNOID
I do hope we have enough senators like Senator Bunning with courage to do the right thing for the American people and get rid of the establishment that created this financial debacle we are in. Senator Bunning knows Bernanke is a failure in the rea read more
Doctoral Position in Economics at University of Goettingen, Germa…
Scholarships Information | December 3rd 2009 by Anya Beauty
website link: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/128744.html The Chair of Development Economics and International Economics offers two positions as Doctoral Student (50%) to be filled by January 1, 2010. Job description: The vacant positions enter an read more
Caution ahead of US payrolls
Econometer | December 3rd 2009
The weaker than forecast November US ISM non-manufacturing, a negative UK press report about the problems in Dubai and caution ahead of the US jobs report have dampened risk appetite overnight though there is expected to be little action until the re read more
Obama: The Audacity Of Hopelessness...
VioletPlanet | December 3rd 2009 by VioletPlanet
With Obama's massive troop escalation (can the Nobel Peace Prize be rescinded?) he's made Afghanistan his war, reminiscent of President Johnson's Vietnam War escalation. At the current death rate of 500 soldiers per year the events depicted in the fi read more
Bernie Sanders’ Bernanke Hold, Floor Speech
Dandelion Salad | December 3rd 2009
Dandelion Salad SenatorSanders December 03, 2009 Sen. Sanders went to the floor of the U.S. Senate to discuss why he had put a hold on the nomination of Ben Bernanke for a second term as Fed chairman. more about “Bernanke Hold, Floor Speech&# read more
Bush Redux
Where's Eric Cantor | December 3rd 2009 by Bradley Herring
I wrote yesterday about Cantor’s failed jobs “plan” and how it comes pre-failed. I briefly touched on how it failed when George W. Bush did the exact same thing from 2000-2008. Mark Murray at NBC’s First Read fleshes it out read more
Excellence in Giving
Nonprofits and New Media | December 3rd 2009 by Jessica L
So what does that leave donors? Since excellence is self-imposed, how can donors interested in achieving more than average returns on their donation navigate the obstacles presented by the nonprofit world and find the partners that deliver the result read more
First Pacific Advisors' Robert Rodriguez Interview
§ 964 Miscellaneous Provisions | December 3rd 2009 by Rick Cratsenberg
Robert Rodriguez managers FPA New Income and FPA Capital. His thoughts on the economy and markets are always worth reading. Wealth Track: November 27 Interview Transcript More on First Pacific Advisors read more
The Dueling Jobs Summits
Axis of Right | December 3rd 2009
President Obama opened a “Jobs Summit” in Washington today in a feeble attempt to salvage what’s left of the failure of his largest legislative initiative to date — the Recovery Act which has miraculously held unemployment a read more
Sen. Bunning Berates Bernanke
Institutional Financial Derivatives | December 3rd 2009 by Douglas Kelso
Fox – Ben Bernanke, seeking Senate approval for a second term as head of the Federal Reserve, faced withering criticism Thursday from a Republican senator who called him a “moral hazard” and said he should be sent back to Princeton read more
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