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Are gas prices under $2/gallon good or bad for the country in the long term?
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Good. It keeps money in the pockets of the people.
Good. It keeps money in the pockets of the people.
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Do you think the House of Representatives's initial rejection of Bush's $700 billion bailout plan is good or bad for the economy?
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Bad. It just makes a bad situation worse.
Bad. It just makes a bad situation worse.
Community banks are seeing improved financial performance despite a challenging economy, Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke told a conference of community bankers on Thursday.
Community banks' profits have risen the past several quarters, while banks are having to set aside less to cover potential losses to their loan portfolios, Bernanke said at a conference on the future of community banks organized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday that close ties to local economies could be a positive and a negative for community banks.
During a conference on community banking, Bernanke’s said community banks and the communities they serve “tend to rise and fall together,” according the Baltimore Business Journal, a sister publication of the Birmingham Business Journal.
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- Bernanke: US Needs Policies to Help Housing Recovery (news.google.com)
Adam Davidson of NPR compares Bernanke to Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary during the financial crisis of 2008: “It’s easy to contrast the two men, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke, this kind of headstrong, tall, bold bulldog in Henry ...
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- Bernanke tries to keep Fed out of politics (api.bing.com)
- A real guarantor is needed (api.bing.com)
- Obama to Nominate Former Paulson Aide to FDIC (api.bing.com)
Lingering housing market problems are slowing the economy and limiting the effectiveness of Federal Reserve policies, according to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, CNN Money reports.
In a speech delivered five days after the big $25 billion mortgage settlement between states and big banks, Bernanke said the decline in home values has resulted in more than $7 trillion in lost wealth.
That, in turn, means a drop in consumer spending between $200...
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- Bernanke: Housing holding back recovery (api.bing.com)
- Foreclosures to Continue: Bernanke (mortgagenewsdaily.com)
- Bernanke: "Housing Markets in Transition" (calculatedrisk.blogspot.com)
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is suing Citigroup Inc. to try to recover $2.5 billion transferred to Citigroup in the weeks before Lehman's September 2008 bankruptcy filing, The Wall Street Journal reports. Just after its bankruptcy filing, Lehman asked Citi to return $2 billion being held in a segregated Citi account since that June, and Citi refused, according to a Wednesday filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
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- Lehman suing Citigroup for $2.5b (syndication.boston.com)
If you really care about your financial future, here's something you need to know. It's about a story that received almost zero coverage from the mainstream press. I can't say that I am surprised. It involves gold. Thanks to requests by ...
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- Bernanke: Housing problems blocking recovery (ksat.com)
- Ben Bernanke: Supreme Socialist (api.bing.com)
- Bernanke: Housing problems hold back recovery (news.google.com)
Bernanke laid out a few ideas from a recent Fed white paper on housing, but steered clear of the more controversial options, such as expanding the reach of government-controlled mortgage firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to spur more refinancing.
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This zine contains articles pertaining to the collapse of several major financial institutions in 2008.
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