Bailouts Threaten Our Nation's Dignity

And that's why if we don't stop buying into this fairly tale world of magic, cure-all bail outs soon, we could not only lose our national treasure, but we could also lose our dignity as a nation.

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Market Winners & Losers: Ford, Jones Apparel

As the week nears an end, the major indices are testing lows not seen in 10 years. The Dow closed down 445 points at 7552, and the major indices lost on average 5.78%. Here are a few of the day's winners and losers.

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The Car Makers' Excuses

The Big Three automakers’ chief executives testified before Congress today, blaming the credit crisis for their downfall.   But Richard Wagoner, CEO of General Motors (GM) did not use the credit crisis as an excuse for the company’s poor profits when he wrote an editorial for the Wall Street Journal in  December 2005.   In his opinion piece, which came [...]

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Global Markets Tumble on Recession Fears

European and Asian stock markets tumbled Thursday after recession fears sent Wall Street plunging the day before.

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Democratic Congressional Leaders Delay Vote on Auto Bailout

Despite last minute wrangling, the auto industry won't get much-needed funding from Congress.

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'Pink Slip Party' Attracts Wall Street's Unemployed

While certainly intended as tongue-in-cheek, there's little funny about the economic crunch that has not only seriously impacted Wall Street's numbers, but left many of the nation's top earners pounding the pavement against an increasingly bleak employment landscape.

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Beware of Congress's Threat to Tax 401Ks

With the bear market red in the claw, with an equal opportunity bear market taking out solid stocks right and left, with panicked investors feeling like every headline  is an explosion, comes this impenetrable stupidity: Some Democrats in Congress have held hearings that included discussions of new proposals to tax 401K money. Specifically, the idea would be [...]

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Selling Rampage Sends S&P Back to 1997

With the specter of a collapse of the auto industry looming, Wall Street's bleeding spread further on Thursday, sending the S&P 500 to 11-year lows and crude oil prices plummeting below $50 a barrel.

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Confusion Sweeping the Markets

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Dump General Motors From the Dow?

Acting as an anvil on the neck of the Dow Jones Industrial Average is General Motors (GM), one of 30 corporate leaders thought to represent the U.S. economy. But as GM is under fire for mismanaging its business, for not switching gears fast enough as gas prices rose to sell what car buyers wanted, fuel-efficient cars, [...]

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Holiday Gift From Fannie, Freddie: Foreclosure Halt

Mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are suspending foreclosures during the holiday season.

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The United States of Bailouts

Dear Dazed and Confused, Why not declare to the Federal Reserve that you and your family now face “unusual and exigent circumstances” and that you would now like to register with the government as “Home Sweet Home Bank”? You deserve a break, you deserve some government money just like every other sector now holding out a tin [...]

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Treasury to Help Liquidate Money Market Firm's Fund

The Treasury Department said Thursday it has reached an agreement with money market firm the Reserve Fund to assist in liquidating one of the firm's funds.

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Congress Races to Extend Jobless Aid

Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a million or more laid-off Americans whose benefits are running out.

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What History Tells Us

Does the stock market fare better under a Democratic  Administration versus a Republican Administration? Answer: No–saying it does mistakes coincidence as fact. Read  on. Expect the economic arbiters charged with officially calling economic slowdowns to announce after the  election that we are  in a recession. October is always the toughest month of the year for the stock market, it’s historically the month [...]

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