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Stimulus Would Expand Tax Credit
Obama met with lawmakers to begin selling his stimulus plan as his advisers offered more details, including a proposal to expand the child tax credit for poor families.…
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Stimulus Package to Include Cram-Downs: Report
The latest round of economic stimulus currently being crafted by Senate Democrats is likely to include controversial legislation allowing so-called “cram-downs” of mortgage debt in bankruptcy, according to a Reuters report Monday evening. …
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Video: Inside a Credit Card Fraud Factory
Detective Bob Watts of the Newport Beach Police Department takes us on a guided tour of the sophisticated credit card forgery operation run by Chris Aragon, an associate of Max Butler, the uber hacker I profiled for this month's Wired. Aragon made a living turning Butler's stolen credit card data into near-perfect forgeries, complete with holograms. …
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More Lessons From The 2008 Financial Markets
Larry Swedroe, principal of an asset management company and investment book author, also posted his Lessons That 2008 Taught Us In 2008 on SeekingAlpha. It was a nice compilation that covered a variety of topics from active management to Madoff to your “Plan B”. …
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Mortgage Reforms: Good Faith Estimates
Mortgage Reforms: Good Faith Estimates The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development issued mortgage reforms last November by requiring lenders and mortgage brokers to provide consumers with a standardized good faith estimate (GFE) that discloses key loan terms and closing costs. …
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Is Whining about Taxes Progressive?
Lane Kenworthy says people should tell the full story about tax progressivity. What has been presented attempts to defend the wealthy against the charge that they don't pay their fair share, but "it doesn’t make much sense": How Progressive Are Our Taxes?, Consider the Evidence: Steven Dubner …
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Did Fair Value Accounting Play a Role in the Credit Crisis?
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just released its voluminous report totaling more than 200 pages that investigated whether fair value accounting was to blame for any or all of the credit crisis and financial dislocations over the past year. …
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CALL HIM WELFARE SPIKE
SPIKE Lee owns houses on the Upper East Side and on Martha's Vineyard, and he sends his kids to private schools. But he's a big whiner when it comes to his wealth. "It's not rich rich," he moaned to Britain's Observer. "Rich is Spielberg. Lucas...…
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US stockmarket returns since 1825
In 2008 America's stockmarkets suffered their second-worst year since 1825INVESTORS are told that the value of their shares may go down as well as up. Rarely, however, do they plummet as far as they did in 2008. The total return of the S&P 500 index…
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Philanthropy
The downturn poses new challenges for philanthropyAMONG the more difficult things to forecast for 2009 is what will happen to giving. On the one hand, the turmoil in financial markets has reduced the assets of many prominent givers, both foundations and…
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Billionaire kills himself over financial crisis
The family of Adolf Merckle says the German billionaire committed suicide after his business empire got into trouble because of the global financial crisis.…
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PERELMAN HOPES TO RE-OPEN MORGAN CASE
Financier Ronald Perelman asked a Florida court to reopen an almost $1.6 billion case against Morgan Stanley over the sale of Coleman Co. to one of the investment bank's clients. Perelman, who controls cosmetics maker Revlon Inc., wants the state...…
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Citgo Suspends Free Heating Oil Program
Citgo has suspended its free heating oil program for low-income residents, Citizens Energy Chairman Joseph Kennedy announced Monday.…
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