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Daily Archives: January 25, 2009

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If A Better TARP Will Not Do, Build A Bigger One

Posted: January 25, 2009 at 3:52 pm

The second and last $350 billion of TARP funding is not in the hands or the new Treasury Secretary and the $825 billion stimulus package may not leave the hands ...
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Buy Land, They Ain’t Making Any More Of It

Posted: January 25, 2009 at 12:55 pm

Mark Twain and Will Rogers shared a sentiment. As Twain said, “Buy land, they're not making it anymore”.It would have been interesting to ask each man what he thought about ...
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GDP Will Drop By More Than 7% In The Second Half

Posted: January 25, 2009 at 11:55 am

Bloomberg's poll of economists shows that the experts think US GDP contracted 5.5% in the fourth quarter. A drop of that magnitude would be the greatest since 1982, a year ...
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California Dreaming

Posted: January 25, 2009 at 9:57 am

Arnold Schwarzenegger may believe that he would be sitting in Barak Obama's chair in the Oval Office if only he had been born a US citizen. Instead he runs California, ...
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Winter

The Picture Of China’s Economy Almost Certainly Wrong

Posted: January 25, 2009 at 9:29 am

When China's Lazarus, Deng Xiaoping, finally became the absolute leader of the world's most populated nation in 1978, the country began its evolution from being an evil empire to becoming ...
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US Car Companies Get Arrogant

Posted: January 25, 2009 at 7:18 am

Barely a month after begging for money in Washington, the US auto companies are talking about what a fine job they are doing preparing for a profitable future.Their predictions are ...
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