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Read Top Fund Managers Comments on Economy
Posted on January 26, 2009 by MoneyBob
Mutual fund managers’ quarterly letters, market commentaries, forecasts, and other reports are full of interesting tidbits and, if one looks carefully, investment ideas. Every quarter, mutual funds are required to publish reports, and many portfolio managers, research chiefs, and advisors take the time to express their opinions about the markets, individual stocks, or other items on their [...]
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The U.S. Banking System is Close to Insolvency
Posted on January 22, 2009 by MoneyBob
ALERT
RGE Monitor
January 22, 2009
RGE Monitor Estimates $3.6 Trillion Loan and Securities Losses in the U.S.
Nouriel Roubini and Elisa Parisi-Capone of RGE Monitor release new estimates for expected loan losses and writedowns on U.S. originated securitizations:
* Loan losses on a total of $12.37 trillion unsecuritized loans are expected to reach $1.6 trillion. Of these, U.S. banks [...]
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Decade of The Great Depression
Posted on January 14, 2009 by MoneyBob
A Short Summary:
It is August 1939 and Americans are still recovering from the Great Depression–the worse nightmare that has ever happened to the United States. For the last ten years, since 1929, this country has experienced total economic collapse. Who could have imagined that this would happen in our [...]
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The Real Unemployment Rate is Closer to 16.5%
Posted on January 14, 2009 by MoneyBob
By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When economists tell us the current U.S. slump could never turn into another Great Depression, they all point to one thing: one of four Americans was out of work in the 1930s.
But since the definition of joblessness has changed over the years, this expert assessment might be [...]
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