Showing posts with label wall street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wall street. Show all posts
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Latest Good Reads

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Going overseas? Follow these credit card tips Inequality as a critical cause of the financial crisis? Spreading the wealth: Not necess...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

Five Problems Financial Reform Doesn’t Fix

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As I mentioned yesterday , the Senate approved the historic financial reform legislation, and sent it to President Obama for a signature....
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Wall Street Bill Clears Crucial Senate Hurdle

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Despite many doubts, the historical financial reform bill passed a major hurdle in the Senate today. 60 Senators voted in favor of the leg...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The 10 Missteps of Financial Reform

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From MarketWatch.com: In hopes to create a new and safer game, Washington has shuffled the deck with which Wall Street plays, but anyone ...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Still no Wall Street bill debate in Senate

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Once again, Democrats in the Senate have failed to come up with the votes needed to debate the Wall Street reform bill. Coming up only 4 v...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Obama to Wall Street: 'Join Us' In Reform

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Later today, President Obama is scheduled to give a highly anticipated speech on the topic of banking reform. According to the White House...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

A Deeper Look at Obama's Plan to Tax the Banks and Wall Street

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Obama first announced his plan to tax Wall Street and major financial institutions during his State of the Union address last month. The b...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Wall Street Chiefs Defend Compensation At Firms

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From NPRNews.com: Wall Street executives said Wednesday they underestimated the severity of the 2008 financial crisis and apologized for...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Wall Street's Bonus Baby Steps

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After U.S taxpayers sacrificed billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street, the rescued financial institutions promised to cut executive b...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Democrats Push $150B Stock Tax on Wall Street

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From TheHill.com : A House bill still being drafted aims to raise $150 billion each year to pay for new jobs. Under a bill being drafted...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Pelosi: Wall Street Tax must be International

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From Reuters : Any tax imposed on financial transactions would have to take effect internationally to prevent Wall Street jobs and relate...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

House Panel Votes to Give SEC More Money, Power

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In the latest move to end corruption on Wall Street, the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee voted this morning to give ...
Monday, August 03, 2009

Wall Street Profits from Trades with Fed

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From FT.com : Wall Street banks are reaping outsized profits by trading with the Federal Reserve, raising questions about whether the cen...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Report on Home Sales Gives Wall Street a Push

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Some good news for the housing industry arrived today with the announcement that sales of previously occupied homes jumped 3.6 percent las...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

Common Misconceptions About the Wall Street Bailout

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With ongoing media coverage from every angle, the Wall Street bailout legislation has become a web of complicated myths and facts that can...

IRS eases tax rules on US firms with foreign units

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From the Associated Press : The Internal Revenue Service, seeking to make cash more available during the current credit crunch, has issu...
Saturday, July 12, 2008

Mortgage Crisis Slams Wall Street

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According to CNN.com , the stock market had record drops today as Dow went below 11,000 for the first time in nearly two years. “The Dow Jon...