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U.S. “Home Equity” Loans Revealing

Posted by BullionBulls 17 hours ago, popular 9 hours ago (http://www.bullionbullscanada.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: bullion bulls canada gold silver
A Bloomberg headline today read “Americans Tap $8.3 Billion in Home Equity, Least in a Decade”. This is indeed a very news-worthy figure. Sadly, you [...] read more »
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Post-census USA in unemployment doldrums

Posted by amabaie 1 day 2 hours 40 minutes ago, popular 18 hours ago (http://www.onlinerecruitersdirectory.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: census jobs unemployment
The census workers have gone home and the US employment picture looks a bit like another recession. Let's hope it's not. read more »
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Why Bankruptcies Continue to Skyrocket

Posted by GoBankingRates 4 days ago, popular 3 days ago (http://www.gobankingrates.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: bankruptcy debt
A number of factors have been attributed to more people filing for bankruptcy, but the biggest has been the financial crisis and Great Recession. read more »
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Does The Fed Have Anything Else in its Bag of Tricks?

Posted by OnlineInvestingAi 4 days ago, popular 3 days ago (http://www.onlineinvestingai.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy fed federal reserve
What’s troubling is that the Fed and every other governmental budget officer has spent their wad on propping up the economy. Is there anything else t[...] read more »
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Is America Sinking into Hopeless Debt?

Posted by georgeu2000 7 days ago, popular 7 days ago (http://www.onlineinvestingai.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: crisis debt deficit government
America has been racking up deficit for decades. One might hope that all the financial chaos and bailouts we have had in the last two years, the nati[...] read more »
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Luxury cars are selling better than expected in 2010

Posted by amabaie 8 days ago, popular 8 days ago (http://www.automonster.ca)
Category: Economy | Tags: cars luxury sales
Germany’s car makers struggled in last year’s global downturn, which didn’t spare luxury brands any more than it did mainstream segments. But this ye[...] read more »
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The Culture of More: 5 Socioeconomic Bubbles Ready to Pop

Posted by BalanceJunkie 10 days ago, popular 9 days ago (http://balancejunkie.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economics investing trends
How growth, consumption and 3 other bubbles have inflated over the past few decades and why they may be ready to pop. read more »
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Hike the federal gas tax? - Don't Mess With Taxes

Posted by JoeTaxpayer 14 days ago, popular 14 days ago (http://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy finance taxes
A discussion of a raise in Federal Gas Tax, an interesting proposition by Kay Bell. read more »
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Travel and Tourism Expenditures in America [INFOGRAPHIC]

Posted by amabaie 14 days ago, popular 14 days ago (http://www.visualeconomics.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: growth spending tourism
All the stats...even what the BP spill has done to tourism this year. read more »
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Interest Rates Hit 25 Year Low

Posted by rosegreene 15 days ago, popular 14 days ago (http://moneymattersblog.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: interest rates
Investors have been fleeing riskier securities and moving to the perceived safety of U.S. Treasury securities. This has created a significant demand[...] read more »
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Are the Rich Walking Away From Million Dollar Mortgages?

Posted by gresham 15 days ago, popular 15 days ago (http://www.roshawnwatson.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: rich wealth home owners
Data suggests that people in such expensive homes have stopped paying their mortgages at a higher rate than the general population. Are people in the[...] read more »
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Benefits Of Hosting The FIFA World Cup Part I

Posted by tim27487 17 days ago, popular 17 days ago (http://weakonomics.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy marketing fifa world cup
Take a look behind the scenes of FIFA's marketing and the benefits of hosting the world's most widely viewed sporting event. read more »
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Lebron James, Wealth, and Taxes

Posted by knsfinancial 22 days ago, popular 21 days ago (http://knsfinancial.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: wealth lebron james state taxes
A lesson for state legislators from the Lebron James sweepstakes! read more »
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Depression Solution Part 2: Derivatives and Financial Innovation

Posted by OnlineInvestingAi 26 days ago, popular 25 days ago (http://www.onlineinvestingai.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: depression derivatives recession
The common thinking about the recent economic collapse is that financial instruments, like derivatives and quantification formulas, were the reason f[...] read more »
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7.9 million jobs lost, many forever

Posted by amabaie 27 days ago, popular 27 days ago (http://money.cnn.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: hiring jobs loss
The recession killed off 7.9 million jobs. It's increasingly likely that many will never come back. The government jobs report issued Friday shows t[...] read more »
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