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General Business - Posted 2009-11-06 09:27:00 October Unemployment Rate Comes In at 10.2% Wow - I'm not sure if anyone was expecting a 10.2% unemployment number for the month of October. Most economists that were surveyed were predicting a slight uptick in the national unemployment number to 9.9% (from 9.8% in September). Some were predicting 10%, while a few more were on the record as expecting 10.1%. But 10.2%? I didn't hear anyone calling for such an increase before...Full Story Posted November 5th, 2009 11:14 am EST More Arrests Made in Galleon Group Insider Trading Case Authorities have reportedly arrested an additional seven people in connection with the Galleon Group hedge fund insider tradi... Full Story Posted October 29th, 2009 5:53 am EST CNBC Viewership Numbers Are Trending Downwards It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that CNBC's numbers are way down from the fall of 2008. ... Full Story Posted October 23rd, 2009 4:07 am EST Amazon.com Surges to New All-Time High After Q3 Earnings Amazon.com didn't just beat Q3 earnings expectations after the bell on Thursday. Instead, the compan... Full Story Posted October 15th, 2009 9:59 am EST A Record Number of Foreclosure Filings In Q3 2009 RealtyTrac Inc. (link below) is reporting that there were a record number of foreclosure filings in ... Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-11-05 22:42:00 Could The Unemployment Rate Hit 10% Tomorrow? In just a few short hours, the unemployment rate in the United States could officially be into the double digits. The Labor Department will be releasing employment data for October at 8:30 am EST on F...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-11-04 08:28:00 Gold Continues to March Higher After taking out the $1,000 mark in mid-September, gold has continued to charge higher, and is currently trading at $1,088.90 per ounce. In just the past year alone, the price of gold ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-11-02 12:15:00 Retailers Bracing For An Abysmal 2009 Holiday Shopping Season Many retailers are extremely worried about the upcoming holiday shopping season (as they should be), and some are already taking extreme measures to try and salvage the year. Case in p...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-31 12:31:00 Say Goodbye To $2.3 Billion Dollars CIT Group Inc. is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy protection. The Wall Street Journal (link below) is reporting that the company is expected to file for bankruptcy "within days",...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-30 07:03:00 Bah Humbug! 65% of Americans Planning To Cut Back on Holiday Expenses This Year Even though the United States (and the rest of the world) is finally emerging from a painful two year-long recession, nearly 2/3rds of Americans are planning on cutting back on holiday expenses, accor...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-28 09:42:00 Americans Turning More Pessimistic on the Economy Once Again September gave us a brief reprieve from the nearly two year-long black fog of pessimism that has been enveloping our country. After nearly 20 months of being bombarded with an endless ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-27 17:17:00 Have Great Credit and Pay on Time Every Month? Credit Card Companies Want You To Pay More Bank of America and Citigroup are apparently testing out a radical new idea - making their "best" customers (meaning those with very good and near-perfect credit) pay more money. The i...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-26 07:07:00 Major Madoff Investor Jeffry Picower Found Dead in Swimming Pool 67-year old Jeffry Picower, who was reportedly a major beneficiary of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool on Sunday. Picower's body was discovered by his...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-24 08:20:00 More Bank Failures in 2009 Than The Last Fifteen Years Combined Seven banks failed this week, bringing the total number of failed banks in 2009 up to a staggering 106. This is the highest number of bank failures in one year since 1992, when a total...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-23 08:08:00 Moody's To the United States: Shape Up or You Might Lose Your AAA Rating Moody's is putting the United States on notice - reduce your deficits over the next couple of years, or else you may lose your AAA credit rating. With the United States currently forec...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-21 06:12:00 Andrew Ross Sorkin: Hank Paulson Met Secretly With Goldman Sachs in Moscow Andrew Ross Sorkin's new book, "Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves" was released to the general public earlier tod...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-20 11:10:00 Government to Bank of America: Your Shares "Should Go Up" Following Completion of Merrill Lynch Deal Emails have surfaced over the past couple of days that shed new light on the intense negotiations that took place in the weeks prior to the Bank of America / Merrill Lynch deal closing in early 2009. ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-19 00:30:00 State Tax Revenues Continue to Plunge The economy of the United States may finally be surfacing from a nearly two-year long recession (at least from a purely technical basis), but individual states continue to suffer mightily due to rapid...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-17 04:26:00 It's a Great Time to Be An Employee of Goldman Sachs According to a recent article on Bloomberg.com (link below), Goldman Sachs has set aside an astonishing $16.7 billion dollars for "compensation and benefits" for the first three quarters of 2009. Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-16 11:55:00 Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon Group Hedge Fund Arrested on Insider Trading Charges David Faber broke the news on CNBC earlier today that Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund, had been arrested on insider trading charges. Rajaratnam has been formall...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-15 03:50:00 Colorado's Minimum Wage Set To Drop Due to Deflation When a law was passed in 2006 in the state of Colorado that called for the minimum wage to be adjusted for inflation, many people didn't entertain the possibility of deflation actually lowering the mi...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-14 04:12:00 Head of FHA: Expect a Further 10% Decline in Real Estate Values Include David Stevens, head of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), as a person who doesn't believe in an immediate rebound in US home values. Stevens, according to a recent news ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-13 00:00:00 The US Dollar Continues To Plunge The US dollar is, to put it bluntly, taking an absolute beating right now. Over the past 6-7 months, the greenback has slumped approximately 10% and 20% against the Japanese Yen and Eu...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-11 09:24:00 James "Jim" Simons To Retire from Renaissance Technologies The Wall Street Journal (link below) is reporting that James "Jim" Simons will be retiring as CEO of Renaissance Technologies at the beginning of 2010. In a letter to investors that wa...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-10 08:10:00 Citigroup Dumps Phibro (and Andrew J. Hall) Citigroup unloaded a major headache on Friday when they agreed to sell their Phibro trading unit to Occidental Petroleum for a reported $250 million dollars. Was Phibro some sort of a ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-09 00:41:00 Sign of the Times: 10,000 People Apply In Three Days for 90 Factory Jobs in Louisville With the national unemployment rate ticking closer towards the 10% mark, jobs are obviously much harder to come by. According to recently released reports, there are supposedly over 2 ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-07 04:14:00 The Accelerating Debt Burden of the United States When did one trillion dollars become twelve? When will 12 trillion dollars turn into 20? As many people are painfully aware, the United States is increasing its total nat...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-06 05:16:00 Saudi Arabia, Japan Among Countries Denying Knowledge of "Secret" Oil Deal An article was published on The Independent (link below) earlier today that sent shock waves throughout the financial world. The article, which was titled "The End of the Dollar Spells...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-04 05:29:00 U-6 Unemployment Rate Hits 17% in September The "official" unemployment rate that is used by the federal government is the U-3 rate, which is defined as "total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force". This number was 9.8% in Septe...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-03 04:41:00 IMAX, LOCM Shares Influenced by Fake Press Releases For the second time this week, somebody has issued a fake press release that has "reported" on the details of a "transaction" that actually never existed in the first place. Earlier i...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-10-01 11:35:00 Online Advertising Pushes Past Television in the UK for the First Time It has happened in the United Kingdom, and it will certainly happen in the United States as well. For the first time ever, more money was spent on online advertising than on television...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-09-30 10:08:00 The FDIC Has No Money Left In its Deposit Insurance Fund The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), which is the US government corporation that is charged which guaranteeing the safety of deposits at member banks, is out of money. So ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-09-29 01:30:00 When Was the Last Time That The United States Experienced Double Digit Inflation? Over the past 25-27 years or so, inflation in the United States has been pretty tame. Over the past decade, the annualized average inflation rate in the US has not topped 4%. Since 198...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-09-27 02:04:00 Job Seekers Outnumber Job Openings 6-to-1 in the United States Starting to feel better about the economy? If so, then there is a very good chance that the media has convinced you to feel this way. In the past month or so, the airwaves have been in...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-09-26 05:05:00 Julian Robertson: "We Could See Inflation Go To 15 to 20 Percent" Julian Robertson has joined the list of prominent names who are expecting to see high inflation in the United States. Robertson, in case you didn't know, is a former hedge fund manager...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-09-24 07:19:00 How Stupid Can You Get? Reza Saleh Busted For Insider Trading in Perot / Dell Deal I guess that greed really does blind people, as Reza Saleh just made one of the most boneheaded moves in the history of boneheaded moves. Earlier this week, Dell announced that it was ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-09-23 10:16:00 Which State's Residents Earn the Most Money? If you had to guess which state had the highest median income, which one would you choose? New York, which is the financial center of the world and home to some of the planet's most obscenely wealthy people? Or...Full Story RECENT ARTICLES FDIC To Banks: Hey, Could We Borrow Some Money? 588,000 "Strategic Defaults" in 2008 Joseph Stiglitz: Recession Is Over.. in 2012 (If We're Lucky) Who Does The United States Owe Nearly $12 Trillion Dollars To? The Lost Decade in the United States Europe Now The World's Richest Continent Report: Andrew Cuomo Preparing Charges Against "High-Ranking" Bank of America Executives Banking Executive Uses "Borrowed" Foreclosed Mansion to Live, Throw Parties Median Household Income in the United States Falling Off a Cliff Option ARMs: The Lurking Monster in the Closet Divorce Lawyers: Just More Victims of the Recession The Norwegian Tax System Savings Bonds Instead of Tax Refund Checks? Past Recessions and Recoveries in the Unemployment Rate "Official" August Unemployment Rate was 9.7%; U-6 Rate Was 16.8% The SEC Had At Least Eight Golden Opportunities To Take Down Bernard Madoff, But Didn't Will 2009 End Up Being Similar to 1930? How Does the Average American Household Spend Their Paychecks? Youth Unemployment Surging In the United States The World's Safest Bank Is.. 416 Banks on FDIC Problem Bank List Geithner Gets Grilled The Five States With the Highest Unemployment Rates Are.. How Will the United States Fund $9 Trillion Dollars in Deficit Spending Over the Next Decade? Surprise! 2009 Deficit Will "Only" Be $1.58 Trillion Dollars AIG's New CEO, Robert H. Benmosche, To Receive $7 Million a Year In Compensation In Which Months Does the Stock Market Typically Perform the Best? Recession Ends in Japan, Germany and France John Paulson: The World's Most Influential Hedge Fund Manager Will the United States Break Its Consecutive Deficit Record? Putting The July Deficit Into Perspective The Worst Month Historically For the Stock Market? It's Not October Investors Tuning Out CNBC As Recession Lingers US Banks Likely To Collect Nearly $40 Billion Dollars in Overdraft Fees This Year Recession Leads to Lower Birth Rate in 2008 The Top 10 Largest Inflation-Adjusted Deficits in US History Deutsche Bank: 48% of Mortgaged US Homeowners Likely to Be "Underwater" By 2011 Goldman Sachs CEO to Employees: No Big Purchases Please Federal Tax Revenues Crashing - How Will the Government Cope? Bank of America Misleads Shareholders, Pays $33 Million in SEC Fines Will "Baby Boomers" Re-Enter The Stock Market? 12 Bank Failures In the Past Two Weeks Andrew Cuomo's Bank Bonus Report Prompts More Outrage Bernard Madoff: I Can't Believe That I Wasn't Caught Sooner Is the "Great Recession" Nearly Over? Has Ben Bernanke Earned Himself A Second Term as Fed Chairman? Andrew J. Hall: Where's My $100 Million? Warren Buffett Up $2.6 Billion Dollars on Goldman Sachs Investment Wall Street Is Booming Once Again FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair: "We Could Lose Up to 500 More Banks" Surprise! New Report Claims That Many Banks Misused TARP Funds State Tax Revenues Down 11.7% In Q1 2009 57 Banks Have Failed So Far in 2009 Should Google Search Data Be Used as an Economic Indicator? Which Countries Have the Highest Unemployment Rates? Which Countries Have the Lowest Unemployment Rates? United States Deficit: $1 Trillion Dollars and Climbing When Was The Last Time That the United States Had Zero Federal Debt? 4.38 Million Americans Have Been Unemployed for More Than 27 Weeks JWM Partners LLC To Shutter Its Doors

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