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General Business - Posted 2010-03-17 08:40:00 The Hedge Fund Industry Continues Its Comeback According to Eurekahedge.com, the global hedge fund industry has continued to recover over the past 9-10 months. From the late '90s until 2007, the hedge fund industry swelled in size as wealthy investors, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds poured trillions of dollars into funds of all shapes and sizes. Hedge fund managers became stars (and billionaires) overnight. Many college graduates were choosing to ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-16 22:00:00 The EBRI Posts Some Frightening Data Re: Retirement The EBRI (Employee Benefit Research Institute) recently released their 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey, and the information contained in the report was alarming to say the least. Giv...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-15 07:44:00 Moody's Fires Another Warning Shot at the United States The United States has suffered a number of indignities over the past couple of years. Plunging real estate values. A financial sector that needed to be saved by a massive government intervention. Mass...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-13 06:29:00 John Meriwether - Third Time's A Charm? John Meriwether is going to give it another shot. In October of 2009, multiple news organizations reported that John Meriwether, formerly of Salomon Brothers/LTCM/JWM Partners, would b...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-11 00:57:00 Unemployment Rate Up in 30 States in January The January state unemployment numbers are in, and they aren't pretty. In January of 2010, the national unemployment rate fell from 10.0% (December 2009) to 9.7%. Peopl...Full Story Posted March 16th, 2010 8:32 am EST Always Consider The Source What if I told you that the National Associations of Realtors, which has a vested interest in seeing real estate values head ... Full Story Posted January 18th, 2010 8:31 pm EST 100 Financial Dictionary Entries With the addition of "Return on Investment / ROI" to our ever-growing financial dictionary yesterday... Full Story Posted January 3rd, 2010 2:00 pm EST New Tool For Looking Up DJIA / NASDAQ / S&P 500 Historical Data Launches Have you ever been curious as to exactly where the DJIA closed on January 4th, 2000? Have you wan... Full Story Posted December 28th, 2009 1:31 pm EST Beginning of an Era? Ebooks Outsell Physical Books on Amazon.com on Christmas Day According to Amazon.com, more of their customers purchased Ebooks than physical books on Christmas D... Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-10 06:30:00 One Year Ago Today.. One year ago today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 6,547.05. Today the DJIA closed at 10,564.38. One year ago today, the NASDAQ closed at 1,268.64. Today the NASDAQ closed ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-09 10:11:00 John Paulson's Four Billion Dollar Plus Long Positions According to the latest Paulson and Co. Inc. 13F-HR (Q4/09), the hedge fund firm had just under $20 billion invested in 13f securities at the end of the fourth quarter. Included in thi...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-08 09:50:00 Hedge Funds Are Zeroing In On Citigroup As I've been combing through the recently released 13F-HR's for the fourth quarter of 2009, something has really jumped out at me - a number of the most notable hedge funds in the world are snapping u...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-07 07:07:00 Apple Has Nearly Reached "Mega Cap" Status "Mega cap" status is a very exclusive club. In order to be considered a "mega cap" (as opposed to a "large cap"), a company needs to have a total market cap of $200 billion or more. Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-05 20:02:00 CBO to President Obama: Your Numbers Are Off In a recent letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye, CBO Director Douglas W. Elmendorf provided the CBO's analysis of President Obama's budget submission for the 2011 fisca...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-05 07:22:00 Harry Markopolos Destroys SEC in New Book In his recently released book "No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller", Harry Markopolos unleashes one of the most scathing indictments of the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) that I h...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-04 03:46:00 Bernard Madoff And The Power of "Influence" One of the biggest questions that people often ask when it comes to Bernard Madoff is - how was he able to fool so many people? Better yet - how was he able to fool so many SMART people? ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-03 06:11:00 Debt Watch - US Public Debt Tops $12.5 Trillion For The First Time Ever With the federal debt limit recently being raised to $14.3 trillion, the amount of US public debt has started to surge higher. On March 1st, 2010, the US public debt total surged past ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-03-01 22:10:00 A History of Personal Savings Rates in the United States The US Department of Commerce: Bureau of Economic Analysis has data on the personal savings rate of the average American from January 1st, 1959 until present day. Before we get into th...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-28 02:03:00 Highlights From the 2009 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder's Letter Berkshire Hathaway Inc. released their annual shareholder letter earlier today. The shareholder letter was signed by Warren E. Buffett, Chairman of the Board of Berkshire Hathaway, on ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-25 22:37:00 Which Political Party Has Posted The Highest Average Budget Deficits in the Post-WWII Era? From 1946 to 2009 (a total of 64 years), the United States has racked up an impressive $10.303 trillion dollars in red ink. I'm not just adding up the deficits in this equation and lea...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-24 19:07:00 Wall Street Bonuses Over the Last 20 Years The Wall Street Journal (link below) recently published a pretty eye-opening chart that illustrates just how fast Wall Street bonuses have risen over the past 20 years. In 1990, Wall S...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-23 15:36:00 "Problem Bank List" Tops 700 The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) announced on Tuesday that a total of 702 banking institutions had been included in the so-called "problem bank list" as of December 31st, 2009. ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-21 19:05:00 The CBO's Unemployment Rate Projections For The Next Ten Years The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) is, according to Wikipedia, a "government agency that provides economic data to Congress". The CBO is an independent and non-partisan agency. The ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-20 02:37:00 Are There Higher Unemployment Rates When Republicans or Democrats Are In Office? I've received a number of emails over the past few months asking if I could do a breakdown of historical national unemployment rates based on which political party is occupying the White House. ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-18 17:03:00 Growth of the United States National Debt vs Rate of Inflation Since 1970 On June 30th, 1970, the US national debt load sat at around $370.1 billion. On September 30th, 2009, the US national debt load had shot up to around $11.9 trillion. The...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-17 15:38:00 A Peak Inside Paulson & Co LLC's Q4 13F-HR Filing The SEC requires that all "institutional investment managers that use the United States mail in the course of their business and that exercise investment discretion over $100 million or more in Sectio...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-16 14:40:00 Japan Is Once Again The Top Foreign Holder of US Treasury Debt According to the US Treasury Department, Japan has regained its spot as the planet's largest foreign holders of US treasury debt. The Chinese government had held this spot for the past...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-14 04:34:00 Germany vs Switzerland In Fight Over Identities of Potential Tax Evaders Germany and Switzerland are currently in the midst of an squabble over German tax evaders. Over the past couple of days, this squabble has gotten a great deal more interesting. Before...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-13 19:50:00 What Do California, Aruba, Hungary, Russia, Thailand, Tunisia, Lithuania and Mexico All Have in Common? California. Aruba. Hungary. Russia. Thailand. Tunisia. Lithuania. Mexico. What does the state of California have in common with the seven sovereign nations listed above? ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-12 09:18:00 The Last 13 Major Sovereign Bond Defaults.. If you have been watching the news at all over the past few weeks, then you have likely heard about the situation in Greece. Greece has become the center of a new chapter in the global...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-11 03:48:00 $383 Billion in Interest Expense for the United States in 2009 The cost of paying interest on trillions upon trillions of dollars of debt? Not cheap. According to TreasuryDirect.gov, the United States paid $383,071,060,815.42 (that's about $383 bi...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-09 13:15:00 Which US Equities Does China Currently Own? According to the New York Times (link below), China's sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation, purchased more than $9 billion dollars worth of US equities last year. Now, t...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-07 13:32:00 Timothy Geithner: The United States Will "Never" Lose Its Aaa Debt Rating In an ABC News interview earlier today, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner claimed that the United States will "never" lose its pristine Aaa credit rating. When asked if the possibili...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-06 07:34:00 2009's Average National Unemployment Rate Third Highest Since 1948 2009 was a bad year in terms of the national unemployment rate. The rate, which started out at 7.6% in January of 2009, was at 10% by the time that the year was over. A...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-05 10:02:00 January Unemployment Rate Dips to 9.7% The national unemployment rate dipped to 9.7% in January after 20,000 nonfarm payroll jobs were lost, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report that was released earlier today. ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-04 04:54:00 Apple vs Amazon - Who Wins? There is currently a tit-for-tat battle being fought between Apple and Amazon in the war for E-book reader / tablet supremacy. On one side you have Amazon, which is the maker of the ph...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-02 09:38:00 Is Lloyd Blankfein The $100 Million Man or Not? Earlier this week, the Times Online published an article titled "Goldman Sachs and the $100 Million Question" which generated a great deal of buzz throughout the financial world. The article claimed that, according to banker...Full Story RECENT ARTICLES A $1.6 Trillion Dollar Deficit? 15 Banks Have Already Failed in 2010 It's Kindlemania US Government's Annual Net Interest Spending Projected to Top $700 Billion Dollars by 2020 CBO: Unemployment Rate Not Likely To Dip Below 9% Until 2012 The Biggest Foreclosure Ever Apple Expected to Unveil the "iSlate" Later This Week Unemployment Rates Increase in 43 States in December A History of Debt Limit Increases In the United States California Isn't the Only State Facing a Major Budget Gap Where is the Insider Buying? WSJ - Compensation at Major US Financial Companies Set to Top $140 Billion Dollars in 2009 John Paulson's Latest Purchase - SuperMedia Inc. Citadel, SAC Capital Help Lead Resurgent Hedge Fund Industry Higher in 2009 2.4 Million Job Openings In The United States Just How Bad is California's Credit Rating? California's Continuing Economic Woes Fed Economist Karen Pence: Buying a Home Is a Terrible Investment Breaking Down the December Unemployment Numbers The Historically Strongest (and Weakest) Days of the Year For the Markets State Population Growth Trends Since 2000 Some First Trading Session of the Year Statistics For You.. Population of Michigan Drops Under 10 Million As Recession Ravages State $6.36 Trillion Dollars in New Debt For the United States Over The Past 10 Years 10 Years Ago Today.. State Tax Revenues Fell 10.7% in Q3 '09 vs Q3 '08 Average Income in the United States Will Continue to Drop in 2009 When Will China Become the World's Largest Economy? The Historical Performance of the Stock Market in January The '00s - A Lost Decade For the US Equity Markets Median Household Income in the United States: Then and Now State Unemployment Numbers for November 2009 China: "Impossible" For Foreign Governments To Double Their Holdings of US Treasuries Not a Good Couple of Months For Citigroup's Largest Shareholder (The US Government) Treasury Pulls Plug on Immediate Sale of Citigroup Shares US Economy Needs to Add 127,000 Jobs Per Month Just To Keep Up With Population Growth Report: Citigroup Close To Repaying TARP Money Times Are Good For Many Employees of the Federal Government China: The New King of Cars Banker Bonus Tax Unleashed In the UK State Unemployment Numbers: April 1983 vs October 2009 "Pay Czar" Kenneth Feinberg Will Exempt Some AIG Executives From Salary Cap Timothy Geithner: No Bank Would Have Survived 2008 Meltdown Without Government Intervention Peter Schiff: Gold Could Reach $5,000 Is Bank of America Next To Exit The TARP Program? Should Ben Bernanke Receive a Second Term As Fed Chairman? The Nine Billion Dollar Check Black Friday Results: Droves of Bargain Hunting Consumers Spent Less Money Largest Jobless Gender Gap In 60 Years (At Least) The Criticism of Timothy Geithner Continues Big Trouble in Dubai Everyone Wants to Own Gold Right Now "Problem Bank List" Swells To 552 Rupert Murdoch vs Google "Black Friday" - Boom or Bust? 14.41% of All US Residential Mortgages Either Delinquent Or in Foreclosure From Zero to $12 Trillion In 173 Years Goldman Sachs: "We Apologize" Goldman Sachs Cancels Its Christmas Party For the Second Straight Year United States National Debt Load About to Pass $12 Trillion Dollars

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