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  • Not always worth the gamble Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 8:24AMJeremy started gambling at school football and hockey pools when he was 11. At 16, he went to his first racetrack, fibbing to his parents about his whereabouts. "My first night at the race track was the greatest night I ever had.[...]
  • HUD's Donovan Says It's Too Early to Declare Housing Victory (Transcript) Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 5:45AMHousing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said in an interview for Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt ,” airing this weekend, that it’s too early to “declare victory” even as the housing market shows progress two years after the credit crunch drove down home prices.
  • RE: Political Dynamic Ofcentral Constituency Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 11:12PMOur attention has drawn to the issues raised by Abdul-samad Suleman Danaa on the subject “Political Dynamics of Wa Central Constituency”. We appreciate how tirelessly the writer sought to use his ignorance as the mortar to pound and create falsehood to drum his message home.
  • Former gambler wins his life back Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:55PMJeremy started gambling at school football and hockey pools when he was 11.
  • The Fed and the Ratchet Effect Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 8:12AMOnce the monetary interventions start, they can't be stopped. The economy requires ever more of the same to fix the problems created by the first round. This is the ratchet effect that Robert Higgs applies to statist policies in general.
  • Pistons suitor Tom Gores has Motown drive Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 4:17AMSitting across the court from Jack Nicholson at the Staples Center as the Lakers won their 17th title in June was someone just as well known as the actor to practitioners of high finance.
  • Pistons suitor Tom Gores has Motown drive Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 3:56AMAs a prospective owner of the Pistons, Tom Gores would bring notable business acumen, deep pockets, a bit of glitz and glamour, a love of the game and deep roots in Michigan to the front office of the rebuilding winner of three NBA titles.
  • Pistons suitor Gores has Motown drive Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 3:56AMAs a prospective owner of the Pistons, Tom Gores would bring notable business acumen, deep pockets, a bit of glitz and glamour, a love of the game and deep roots in Michigan to the front office of the rebuilding winner of three NBA titles.
  • Gloomy outlook on world recovery Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 8:28PMExIs the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the United States looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook...
  • What will expansion to 18 games do to NFL schedule? Hey, Tony! Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 7:06AMBrowns beat writer answers readers' questions about the team and the rest of the NFL.
  • Financial experts see trouble looming ahead Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 3:18AMCERNOBBIO, Italy - Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook - especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world.
  • Murphy, Caligiuri trade barbs on economy Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 12:31AMDennis House, host of Channel Three’s “Face the State,” told WTIC’s Jim Vicevich Friday that viewers of his show on Sunday should listen carefully to how U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, answers a question about President Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
  • Boom...or bust: Is China heading for big trouble? Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 6:17PMA surge in bank lending. A speculative rush to buy houses – not just second properties, but third or fourth homes. Soaring property prices. Banks hiding the loans off their balance sheets. Surely it could not be happening again? And not so soon? But it is – in China.
  • Experts See Trouble Ahead For Developed World Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 10:16AMCERNOBBIO, Italy Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world.
  • Kate Hughes: Rent or not, there's no place like home Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 6:28PMTo be honest, it wasn't until the estate agent cheerfully told me she had sold her family home and was now renting that I really tuned back in. "It's the perfect solution for us," she shouldn't have said. "We can live somewhere far nicer than we would ever have been able to buy, and if the boiler explodes in the middle of the night it's someone else's problem."
  • Experts see trouble ahead for developed world Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 2:02PMIs the global economy out of the woods?
  • Experts see trouble ahead for developed world Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 12:37PMIs the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook -- especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world.
  • Experts see trouble ahead for developed world Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 11:23AMIs the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook...
  • Sales of homes in county drop 20 percent from June Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 11:05AMArgus-Press Photo by Christina Guenthner A home in Caledonia Township is seen for sale this week. Reports show sales of homes have fallen dramatically since federal tax breaks expired this year.
  • Murphy on the Trail (video) Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 11:04AMWhen U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy (D-Cheshire) embarked on his initial 41 towns in 41 days tour in 2006, he was a 33-year-old challenger knocking on doors as he ran against a 24-year Republican incumbent Nancy Johnson of New Britain in the Fifth District.
  • Experts see trouble ahead for developed world Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 10:44AMTwo years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook - especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world.
  • Is global economy out of the woods? Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 10:34AMTwo years after the near-meltdown, with the US looking sluggish and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook -- especially for the US and much of the industrialized world.
  • Gloomy experts see signs of double dip Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 9:26AMMost upbeat prediction at the Ambrosetti Forum on the global economy is mere ‘subpar growth’
  • Majority of Mercedians are renters Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 3:45AMFor the past eight years the Belmontes family has rented in Merced. Paul Belmontes would like to o
  • As homes languish on market, owners forced to become landlords Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 2:28AMA growing number of homeowners are finding out what it means to be a landlord after failing to sell their homes in one of the worst housing slumps in history.
  • Where the sales are: Local home market still thriving Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 12:59AMNews of a recent 27 percent drop in housing sales in July has captured headlines across the country and painted a gloomy outlook for the nation's economic recovery, but the news is not all doom and gloom for every part of the country.
  • Home insurance tips Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 7:58PM1. Loyalty is overrated
  • 5 things you must know about homeowners insurance Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 6:17PM1. Loyalty is overrated
  • Boring-Is-Sexy Credo Won’t Let German Private Banks Dodge Rules Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 5:38PMGermany’s private banks, which trace their roots back as far as the 16th century, survived two World Wars, the Great Depression and the financial crisis. Now they face a different challenge: increased regulation.
  • Government Economic Leaders Surprised that Real World Isn't Responding to their Magic Pixie Dust Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 2:54PM→ Was hington’s Blog Fed chief Ben Bernanke told the financial crisis inquiry commission today: If the crisis has a single lesson, it is that the too-big-to-fail problem must be solved   ***   Too-big-to-fail financial institutions were both a source ... of the crisis and among the primary impediments to policymakers' efforts to contain it .... That's funny, given that Bernanke has been one of ...
  • Profiting from subprime turmoil Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:21AMNews this week that major banks are planning a massive fund to prop up the hardest-hit victims of the subprime mortgage crisis got investors worrying again.
  • Where the sales are: Local housing market still strong Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:21AMNews of a recent 27 percent drop in housing sales in July has captured headlines across the country and painted a gloomy outlook for the nation's economic recovery, but the news is not all doom and gloom for every part of the country.
  • Don't Stop at the Latte Factor Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:01AMWhy math is so essential to healthy financial habits.
  • How Twenty-Somethings Became Debt Scapegoats Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:58AMYoung adults are doing a lot better than you might think.
  • EDITORIAL: It's not him, it's us Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:56AMMy Dad died in 1999. I miss him every day. He was what my late friend Susannah B. Hatt of Littleton, N.H., would call a “yellow dog Democrat” — he would have voted for a little yellow dog if he was a Democrat.
  • Bernanke Meets Buffett in New Regulatory Role Conceived to Protect Markets Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 6:07AMIn November 2009, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd advanced a radical proposal: to create a super-regulator that would take over most of the bank supervision that had been done by the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and other agencies.
  • The end of Canadian real estate insanity Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:12AMIt was inevitable that the boom would end, and maybe that’s not all bad
  • The Fixer: Bad customers, the sequel Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:11AMDear Readers: Last week, we heard about a cheapskate limo passenger, a man who couldn't abide the taste of fish and some nasty drunks. Our annual feature on obnoxious, annoying customers now continues, with more tales of the kind of consumer you do not want to be:
  • Donations flowing to Tent City Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 2:24AMWith the increasing number of tents appearing in Davidson Park, residents have been impressed by the growing level of generosity from people bringing them food items and necessities.
  • Little support for new home-buyer tax credit Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 10:50PMIs another federal home-buyer tax credit coming? Shaun Donovan, secretary of housing and urban development, dodged that question over the weekend, leading to speculation that the Obama administration might pursue another one. But it's hard to see where... Shaun Donovan - United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Presidency of Barack Obama - Tax credit - United States
  • Black hole no deal-breaker, Abbott says Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 7:27PMTony Abbott says the Coalition's ability to do a deal with the independent MPs has not been compromised by Treasury figures showing a multi-billion dollar shortfall in his costings.
  • Financial Services on Aisle Nine: Wal-Mart Gives Banks a Run for Their Money Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 3:13PMDespite being pilloried by the public lately, a banker's lot can't be all that bad. At least, that's what Wal-Mart executives must be thinking. Over recent months, there has been a flurry of announcements from the world's largest retailer about the expanding array of banking products sold at its U.S. stores. Company officials insist that their main aim is to reach the "unbanked" and "underbanked ...
  • Auction in McCloud cleans out county’s first hospital Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 11:40AMThe historic Century House Inn and Museum, formerly the old McCloud Hospital, and 1.8 acres went on the auction block Saturday morning at in a foreclosure sale in McCloud.
  • Banks, can you spare a loan? Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 11:04AMPolitics aside, small-business owners are in a credit desert.
  • Sampling of editorials from NY state Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 9:02AMThe Staten Island Advance on NY lawmakers flipping on issues underlying federal "Race to the Top" funding. They say that success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. You see examples of this phenomenon all the time in politics, of course.
  • Justice denied as debt seizures soar Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 8:19AMMinnesotans struggling with debt have their bank accounts and pay seized with no judicial oversight.
  • William J. Lynchs campaign for the R.I.s 1st Congressional District seat stresses people approach Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 10:02PMCandidate for the 1st Congressional District seat vows to bring common sense to Washington
  • House prices have nowhere to go but down Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:15PMWith first-time buyers unable to get on the ladder, the property market is shuddering to a halt Only a mug bets against rising house prices in Britain. This is a small island that has a rising population, tight planning controls and a tax system that favours property. Demand tends to run well ahead of supply, and that means bricks and mortar always seems a good investment. Well, call me a mug if ...
  • New on Blu 8-31-10 Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:43PMNew this week, Burgundy meets Blu and the dead are still evil.
  • GOP failing to address 'the evil of unrestricted computerized hedge fund short selling' Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 12:30PMRepublican Representatives Paul Ryan and John Boehner, who voted for the $700 billion big bank bailouts that began under President Bush, have put forward much-publicized proposals to solve the economic crisis.