Archive for September, 2009:

Quizno Coupons For Quizno Fanatics

{ Posted on Sep 30 2009 by Erik Folgate }
Quizno’s isn’t my favorite sub place. That award goes to Firehouse subs. But, Quizno’s does have some very good subs that I crave from time to time like the chicken carbonara and the peppercorn prime rib sub. ...Read More »

Toying Around with the Charts

{ Posted on Sep 30 2009 by Jordan }
To be honest, at this point its anyone’s ball game for the future of the stock markets. Though, while shamelessly pressing the charts to see what I could squeeze out of them, I may have stumbled on what could ...Read More »

Another Fiscal Year Older and $1.65 Trillion Deeper In Debt

{ Posted on Sep 30 2009 by Tim Cavanaugh }
The Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget celebrates the end of Fiscal Year 2009 with a breakdown of the year's most appalling financial and budget statistics. Some highlights: • $1,650,971,205,167 added to the national debt, bringing the total to $7.5 trillion. • 99 banks taken over ...Read More »

Top 15 Personal Finance Bloggers On Twitter

{ Posted on Sep 30 2009 by Erik Folgate }
In case you haven’t noticed, Twitter is taking over the social media scene, and guess which bloggers are taking it over? You guessed it, personal finance bloggers! We will soon announce our Twitter account, but there are a ...Read More »

BofA Shareholders Make $1.5 Billion On Ken Lewis’s Retirement

{ Posted on Sep 30 2009 by Joe Weisenthal }
Categories : All, Clusterstock
How are Bank of America (BAC) shareholders reacting to news that their fearless leader Ken Lewis is stepping down? Well, short of going out and polling them, the easiest answer is to look at the share price, which is up ...Read More »

Why Is Lewis Stepping Down Now?

{ Posted on Sep 30 2009 by John Carney }
Categories : All, Clusterstock
The news that Ken Lewis is stepping down at the end of the year raises the question: Why Now?It seems as if the announcement wasn’t planned out very well. Unlike Morgan Stanley, Bank of America doesn’t have a clear succession ...Read More »

U.S. GDP Revised Up, but Economic Growth is Unlikely to Gain Momentum

{ Posted on Sep 30 2009 by Jason Simpkins }
Categories : All, Macroaxis, Money, Money Morning
By Jason Simpkins Managing Editor Money Morning After contracting by 6.4% in the first three months of the year, the U.S. economy shrank just 0.7% in the April-June period. But while many analysts... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this ...Read More »

Finally, Someone Who Doesn’t Have To Pay Back Ponzi Scheme Money

{ Posted on Sep 30 2009 by Lawrence Delevingne }
Categories : All, Clusterstock
Lately, it seems like just about anyone can be sued to reclaim money lost in a Ponzi scheme. The Madoff trustee is going after the fraudster's family; Madoff victims' lawyers may go after JPMorgan and other big banks; and prosecutors in ...Read More »

Ken Lewis Is Stepping Down!

{ Posted on Sep 30 2009 by John Carney }
Categories : All, Clusterstock
Ken Lewis will step down from his position as the chief executive of Bank of America by year's end. Charlie Gasparino broke the story on CNBC moments ago. Gasparino says that Lewis's departure is voluntary. He was not asked by either regulators ...Read More »

Treasury Says It Will Release The TARP Payment Data Tomorrow or Friday

{ Posted on Sep 30 2009 by John Carney }
Categories : All, Clusterstock
The data on dividend and interest payments by TARP banks will be released tomorrow or Friday, a Treasury Department spokeswoman tells us. Meg Reilly of Treasury told us there has been no policy change regarding the release of the data. She ...Read More »