Archive for October, 2009:

Weekend Reading: Teetering On A Pivot

{ Posted on Oct 31 2009 by Babak }
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For economic and market news and to see what interesting reading you may have missed last week, check out the list below. To see it all, go to news.tradersnarrative.com: Why the Goldman Sachs-AIG Story Won’t Go Away Europe Shows the Way: ING ...Read More »

The GRS Garden Project: October 2009 Update

{ Posted on Oct 31 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 October 2009. (Here are the results for 2008.) As those of you who follow me on Twitter already know, it’s ...Read More »

Desperate Sears Started “Black Friday” Today

{ Posted on Oct 31 2009 by Joe Weisenthal }
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This is just sad. Counter Culture: This Saturday, on Halloween, Sears (SHLD) is launching a campaign called “Black Friday Now,” with “doorbuster” deals on Christmas trees, work boots, diamond-stud earrings and other select items. The deals will take place every Saturday ...Read More »

Boise And Provo Are The New Foreclosure Hot Spots

{ Posted on Oct 31 2009 by Joe Weisenthal }
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Welcome to America's new foreclosurevilles. They're pretty far from your conception of the typical subprime, bubble city: HousingWire: Dramatic increases in foreclosures from a year ago came in suburban areas previously believed to be more stable, such as Boise, Idaho, up ...Read More »

October Economic Summary in Graphs

{ Posted on Oct 31 2009 by Economics - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.inveslogic.com }
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Here is a collection of real estate and economic graphs for data released in October ...Note: Click on graphs for larger image in new window. For more info, click on link below graph to original post.******************** New Home Sales in ...Read More »

Marginal Tax Hikes from Health Reform

{ Posted on Oct 31 2009 by Economics - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.inveslogic.com }
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Here is my column in tomorrow's NY Times about the marginal tax rates implicit in the health reform bill making its ways through Congress. Let me add a few additional observations on the topic.1. Here are the CBO numbers on ...Read More »

Strong Currency ETFs Don t Always Equal Strong Economies

{ Posted on Oct 31 2009 by ETF's Sector - Latest Expert Blog Articles at http://www.inveslogic.com }
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Europe and Japan s currencies, along with related exchange traded funds (ETFs), may showing strong gains, but the effects on their economies may not be so beneficial.A weak U.S. dollar helps U.S. manufacturers, U.S. exporters and U.S. multinational... Read More »

The Simple Dollar Time Machine: October 31, 2009

{ Posted on Oct 31 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 »

Housing: First-time buyers and investors are market s lifeblood

{ Posted on Oct 31 2009 by Economics - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.inveslogic.com }
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From three DataQuick reports on Las Vegas, Miami and Phoenix ...Las Vegas: In September, a popular form of financing used by first-time home buyers government-insured FHA loans accounted for 53.8 percent of ...Read More »

Rosner Says Stability Act Would Hurt Small, Medium Banks

{ Posted on Oct 31 2009 by Economics - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.inveslogic.com }
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIuwVJ-WqnYWe need to really push back against the TBTF industry s lobbying pitch that forcing them to shrink or break them up will cause them to be uncompetitive . This is a false ...Read More »
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