Archive for August, 2009:

Health Care Reform Hard Ball

{ Posted on Aug 30 2009 by Robert }
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Survival Of The Biggest

{ Posted on Aug 30 2009 by Michael Shedlock }
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Categories : All, Globaleconomicanalysis, Macroaxis
On account of Fed sponsorship, Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger.When the credit crisis struck last year, federal regulators pumped tens of billions of dollars into the nation's leading financial institutions because the banks were so big ...Read More »

The Simple Dollar Time Machine – August 29, 2009

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by Trent }
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Many newer readers of The Simple Dollar haven’t been exposed to the hundreds of great articles in the archives of the site, so this is a weekly series that highlights the five best posts from one year ago this week, ...Read More »

Tale of Two Economies

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by Michael Shedlock }
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How well corporations have fared in the recovery depends largely on two factors.1) How much cash on hand they had and how conservative they were heading into the recession2) How much Uncle Sam (taxpayers) bailed them outThe Wall Street Journal ...Read More »

“Better” Corporate Governance Made Banks Riskier

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by John Carney }
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Banks that were more responsive to shareholders performed much better before the financial crisis and much worse during it, a new study demonstrates. A pair of finance professors examined the returns and governance styles of banks before and during the crisis. ...Read More »

The GRS Garden Project: August 2009 Update

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by J.D. }
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Every month, my wife and I track how much time and money we spend growing food. This is the report for August 2009. (Here are the results for 2008.) After late July’s blistering heat, August has been relatively cool around Portland. ...Read More »

Best Of Personal Finance Bloggers for Week of August 24th

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by Erik Folgate }
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Here are some of the best personal finance and career articles from some of the best bloggers in the PF community: Free Money Finance analyzes six questions to ask in an interview to sell yourself. My Two Dollars explains how ...Read More »

Revising My Money Goals – And Setting New Ones

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by Trent }
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Over the past few months, our finances have been in something of a “reset” mode. In the process of taking more control of the advertisements on The Simple Dollar’s website (which is my primary source of income), I had ...Read More »

FDIC Shutters 3 More Banks

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by Joe Weisenthal }
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Things are so slow in these last few days of Summer, that the FDIC only closed 3 banks yesterday. Not bad. Bloomberg: Regulators closed banks in California, Maryland and Minnesota yesterday, pushing U.S. bank failures to 84 this year amid continuing ...Read More »

Paul Krugman: “Deficits Saved The World”

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by Michael Shedlock }
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Dateline August 27, 2009Paul Krugman: "Deficits Saved The World"Inquiring minds are reading Till Debt Does Its PartSo new budget projections show a cumulative deficit of $9 trillion over the next decade. According to many commentators, that’s a terrifying number, requiring ...Read More »
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