This past week the administration announced its choice for the first credit czar at the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This bureau was created as part of the supposed Wall Street reform bill…
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On More Stimulus Spending
Faced with continuing economic decline and an impending election, the administration, predictably, is entertaining the idea of another stimulus package. To explain why the last one didn’t work, adherents to the Keynesian…
Successful Economic Policies? For Whom?
Last week, in the wake of another uptick in the official unemployment rate, the administration continued to claim that their economic policies were working, just not fast enough. This administration inherited an…
Strongest US Banks and Thrifts
Greetings! In my previous post I told you how you can find out which are the weakest banks and thrifts in the U.S. Now it’s time to share the link where you…
Weakest US Banks and Thrifts
Hi everyone. I’ve got some useful bit of info to share with you. In a recent post on my “finance blog” I’ve got two links to the weakest and strongest US banks…
The Economic Crisis No One Saw Coming: A Convenient Untruth
The Economic Crisis No One Saw Coming: A Convenient Untruth August 9, 2010 By Elliott Wave International The single most convenient untruth about the 2008 (and counting) financial crisis is that it…