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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 possibility of a rating downgrade was a concern, Geithner responded: "That will never happen to this country." This comes just two months after 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 a...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, Davemanuel.com now has ... 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 Posted December 24th, 2009 10:39 am EST Bernard Madoff Nearly Beaten to Death in Prison According to various published reports (see link below), disgraced investor Bernard Madoff was nearl... Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-02-01 02:23:00 A $1.6 Trillion Dollar Deficit? According to published reports, the Obama Administration will release their budget proposal on Monday. The White House, according to reports, is apparently going to be forecasting a $1...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-31 09:46:00 15 Banks Have Already Failed in 2010 Those who were expecting a slowdown in bank failures this year are probably going to be disappointed, as a total of 15 banks have already failed so far in 2010. 140 banks collapsed in ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-29 05:53:00 It's Kindlemania Amazon has been notoriously tight-lipped (so far) as to how many of their popular Kindle devices have been sold, but this information has now started to leak out. It started in the com...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-28 07:03:00 US Government's Annual Net Interest Spending Projected to Top $700 Billion Dollars by 2020 Earlier this week, the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) released a report titled "The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2010 to 2020". This report was filled with the CBO's pr...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-27 11:28:00 CBO: Unemployment Rate Not Likely To Dip Below 9% Until 2012 The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) released a 179 page report on Tuesday that was filled with sobering information regarding the US economy. In case you don't know what the Congress...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-26 10:23:00 The Biggest Foreclosure Ever The most expensive real estate deal in the history of the United States has now turned into its largest foreclosure. According to the New York Times (link below), Tishman Speyer Proper...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-25 02:45:00 Apple Expected to Unveil the "iSlate" Later This Week The "iSlate"? The "Apple Tablet"? The "iPad"? There is no telling what Apple's new tablet computer will officially end up being called, but one thing is for sure - it will be unveiled t...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-24 08:25:00 Unemployment Rates Increase in 43 States in December The BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) delivered a sobering report on Friday morning. According to the BLS, a total of 43 states reported an increase in their unemployment rate in Decemb...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-22 03:14:00 A History of Debt Limit Increases In the United States Eyebrows (and the blood pressure readings of many) were raised recently when the Democrats proposed raising the debt limit by $1.9 trillion dollars to $14.3 trillion dollars. By defini...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-21 06:41:00 California Isn't the Only State Facing a Major Budget Gap The financial troubles that are currently plaguing the state of California are well-known and well-publicized. California is currently facing a budget deficit of nearly $20 billion dol...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-20 06:29:00 Where is the Insider Buying? Zerohedge.com (link below) posted an article earlier today titled "Insider Selling Outpaces Buying by 24 Times in Last Week". In the article, the author points out that insiders bought...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-18 02:19:00 WSJ - Compensation at Major US Financial Companies Set to Top $140 Billion Dollars in 2009 A study done by the Wall Street Journal shows that the top 38 financial companies in the United States are expected to pay out roughly $145 billion dollars in total compensation for 2009. Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-16 04:21:00 John Paulson's Latest Purchase - SuperMedia Inc. Much like Warren Buffett, investors around the world follow John Paulson's every move. And why not? The head of the mega-hedge fund firm Paulson and Co., Inc. has been phenomenally suc...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-14 23:18:00 Citadel, SAC Capital Help Lead Resurgent Hedge Fund Industry Higher in 2009 2008 was a horrific year for the hedge fund industry. Funds were folding left, right and center as panic-riddled investors pulled their money and returns plummeted. A number of high-pr...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-13 20:35:00 2.4 Million Job Openings In The United States It may seem curious to some that the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that there were 2.4 million job openings in the United States as of the end of November. Tell that to ...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-12 18:40:00 Just How Bad is California's Credit Rating? As we mentioned in our article yesterday titled "California's Continuing Economic Woes", California has a pretty poor credit rating. As a matter of fact, there is no state that has a W...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-12 06:50:00 California's Continuing Economic Woes Just a decade ago, many states were riding high due to a surge in the US economy. California was no different, as the state was bathing in the proceeds of a lucrative "dot-com boom". T...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-11 06:34:00 Fed Economist Karen Pence: Buying a Home Is a Terrible Investment According to the Wall Street Journal (link below), Karen Pence of the Federal Reserve believes that "homes are actually a terrible investment". The WSJ claims that Pence made the comme...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-09 01:39:00 Breaking Down the December Unemployment Numbers The unemployment numbers for December were released earlier today, and most investors ended up yawning at the news. The official unemployment rate for December (10.0%) was unchanged fr...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-07 03:28:00 The Historically Strongest (and Weakest) Days of the Year For the Markets Let's file this article under "pretty useless information" and "I clearly have too much time on my hands." I decided that it might be interesting to figure out the strongest days of the...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-05 21:07:00 State Population Growth Trends Since 2000 Which state has witnessed the biggest surge in population growth (as a %) since the year 2000? Which state would you guess? Texas? Florida? If you picked Nevada, then yo...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-04 15:23:00 Some First Trading Session of the Year Statistics For You.. 2010 is off to a strong start for the three major US market indexes. The DJIA is currently up about 165 points (+1.58%), while the Nasdaq is up 37 points (+1.63%) and the S&P 500 is up...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-03 19:38:00 Population of Michigan Drops Under 10 Million As Recession Ravages State In July of 2001, The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that the state of Michigan had topped the 10 million person population level. To be exact, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Michi...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-02 15:18:00 $6.36 Trillion Dollars in New Debt For the United States Over The Past 10 Years At the end of 1999, the United States possessed a total public debt load of $5,776,091,314,225.33. Ten years later, the United States currently possesses a total public debt load of $1...Full Story General Business - Posted 2010-01-01 15:20:00 10 Years Ago Today.. Ten years ago today.. Ten years ago today, the DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) was sitting at 11,497.12. Today, the DJIA is sitting at 10,428.05. Ten years ago today...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-12-31 13:25:00 State Tax Revenues Fell 10.7% in Q3 '09 vs Q3 '08 The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government released a report last month that shed some light on the continuing troubles that states are having when it comes to the collection of much-needed tax...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-12-29 13:45:00 Average Income in the United States Will Continue to Drop in 2009 The income of the average American household is expected to continue to plummet in 2009 as the country continues to slog through the stinging effects of the "Great Recession". While me...Full Story General Business - Posted 2009-12-27 11:57:00 When Will China Become the World's Largest Economy? Earlier this week it was revealed that China had very likely passed Japan to become the second largest economy in the world. This was originally expected to take place in 2010, but thanks to higher-than-expected economic gro...Full Story RECENT ARTICLES 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 More Takeover Shenanigans Gold Still Well Off Of Its Inflation-Adjusted All-Time High 9 Things About the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights You Need to Know SAC Capital Now In the Crosshairs of the Government? October Unemployment Rate Comes In at 10.2% Could The Unemployment Rate Hit 10% Tomorrow? Gold Continues to March Higher Retailers Bracing For An Abysmal 2009 Holiday Shopping Season Say Goodbye To $2.3 Billion Dollars Bah Humbug! 65% of Americans Planning To Cut Back on Holiday Expenses This Year Americans Turning More Pessimistic on the Economy Once Again Have Great Credit and Pay on Time Every Month? Credit Card Companies Want You To Pay More Major Madoff Investor Jeffry Picower Found Dead in Swimming Pool More Bank Failures in 2009 Than The Last Fifteen Years Combined Moody's To the United States: Shape Up or You Might Lose Your AAA Rating Andrew Ross Sorkin: Hank Paulson Met Secretly With Goldman Sachs in Moscow Government to Bank of America: Your Shares "Should Go Up" Following Completion of Merrill Lynch Deal State Tax Revenues Continue to Plunge It's a Great Time to Be An Employee of Goldman Sachs Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon Group Hedge Fund Arrested on Insider Trading Charges Colorado's Minimum Wage Set To Drop Due to Deflation Head of FHA: Expect a Further 10% Decline in Real Estate Values The US Dollar Continues To Plunge James "Jim" Simons To Retire from Renaissance Technologies Citigroup Dumps Phibro (and Andrew J. Hall) Sign of the Times: 10,000 People Apply In Three Days for 90 Factory Jobs in Louisville The Accelerating Debt Burden of the United States Saudi Arabia, Japan Among Countries Denying Knowledge of "Secret" Oil Deal

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