Tag: interest rates
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August 19, 2008 11:47 AM EDT --
US bank 'to fail within months'
The global financial crisis is set to get worse, with a large US bank likely to collapse in the next few months, a former IMF chief economist has . . .
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June 26, 2008 09:26 PM EDT --
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Board declined to raise interest rates and, surprisingly, this may have been a factor in the Dow's 358 point drop today. It's surprising because generally . . .
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December 18, 2007 12:07 AM EST --
I got two of these calls:
Someone calls and tells you that you qualify for a lower interest rate on all your credit cards by some presidential edict that is about to expire. All you have to do . . .
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May 03, 2008 01:36 AM EDT --
John McCain's solution our economic woes is tax cuts, a plan not atypical of Republicans of any stripe. But will tax cuts build a single bridge, fill a single pothole, pay a single teacher or create . . .
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January 30, 2008 10:57 AM EST --
My fiance is in art school; it seems odd that he has to take a math class. But I think he may have stumbled upon the one useful math class that the world has ever known. I helped him with . . .
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April 19, 2007 10:39 PM EDT --
U.S. Trade Deficit Sets Fifth Consecutive Record
It has many economists worried. It has politicians worried. We’ve been warned of the resulting dangers. And still it gets bigger and bigger.
Last . . .
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September 18, 2008 10:07 PM EDT --
Yesterday we bailed out yet another corporation. AIG was bailed out for a mere $83,000,000,000 . To date that brings the total of banks and/or financial institutions bailed out of financial . . .
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March 21, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23738353
Ex-chairman says Fed policies didn't cause current woes
By Steven Mufson updated 11:32 p.m. CT, Thurs., March. 20, 2008
Perhaps the Maestro . . .
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September 06, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
Republicans have been enormously successful in convincing Americans of the biggest economic myth of modern times - that cutting taxes actually increases government revenue. It's counter-intuitive; . . .
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August 07, 2007 10:59 AM EDT --
With hours to go until the Federal Reserve makes its latest market moving utterances, I thought I'd share these few thoughts.
I've long believed that the role of the Federal Reserve has to be . . .
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August 09, 2007 02:01 PM EDT --
China is now in control of US dollar value, US interest rates, and US Foreign Policy. How's that for "Pride Goeth Before a Fall"? We were able to attack Afghanistan and . . .
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January 31, 2008 07:23 PM EST --
I'm here from Cinespace for a second night of presidential debates. This time it's the democrats: Clinton v. Obama (without John Edwards, who dropped out of the race yesterday). I'm predicting . . .
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August 13, 2007 10:39 AM EDT --
There is a widespread assumption that " certificates of deposit " expose their owners to the ravages of Inflation. Behind that assumption is the inherent characteristic of all fixed income products, . . .
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March 11, 2008 07:39 AM EDT --
Fixed mortgage rates change daily and even hourly based on the buying and selling of mortgage bonds that happens in the financial markets, and not based on Federal Reserve actions as many people believe. . . .
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March 16, 2008 03:18 PM EDT --
Earlier this week, in an article entitled "The Perfect Storm", I noted how a confluence of factors could portend serious consequences for the American Economy. I focused primarily on the tumbling . . .
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October 02, 2007 11:04 AM EDT --
I'm getting a little tired of hearing how Bush has reduced the deficit to a smaller sliver of the country's GDP, even as the debt continues to grow to gargantuan proportions. The New York . . .
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November 29, 2007 08:10 PM EST --
As a mortgage lender for the past ten years, I have watched with expectancy as the market took a dive. And as I had suggested to my many clients to keep plenty of their equity rarely doing a loan . . .
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September 19, 2005 11:28 AM EDT --
Thursday, February 24, 2005 Short-term interest rates are rising. But long-term rates are holding steady. What's happening? Host Kai Ryssdal gets an explanation from Marketplace's money guru, . . .
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September 20, 2005 02:37 PM EDT --
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 The Federal Reserve Board revisits short-term interest rates today. No rate change would signal a concern at the Fed the economy is slowing. John Dimsdale reports. . . .
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September 22, 2005 11:21 AM EDT --
Thursday, September 22, 2005 Economist Chris Farrell tells host Scott Jagow that the Federal Reserve Board overreacted when it increased interest rates Tuesday. Listen Now Today's Marketplace . . .
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