Posts Tagged ‘financial crisis’

15 Best Business Books Of The Year

December 25th, 2009 | Filed under: Books, ,

While 2008 was a bad year for many people’s retirement and investment accounts, the crash spawned a bunch of new books and equally rich authors in 2009. USA Today recently put together a list of the year’s best business books that try to make sense of the financial

Geithner: On the Road to Recovery. Politics At Its Best

December 24th, 2009 | Filed under: Financial Markets, ,

I’ll try my best to not sound like a pessimist here, but can you blame me?

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told National Public Radio that he strongly believes we are on the road to recovery, but it won’t be fast.

Translation: We will recover sometime in the future, but

Financial Crisis Aiming at the Dallas Cowboys

November 17th, 2008 | Filed under: General,

The past couple of months the financial crisis has aimed to take shots at the pro-sport’s world. Several NBA players have took contracts in Europe, clubs are lowering or stabilizing ticket prices, and leagues are cutting several jobs.

Is This Becoming High School Student Council?

October 28th, 2008 | Filed under: Financial Markets,

I don’t know about you, but it seems like this whole $700 billion bailout is spiraling down into a replica of high school student council. We suddenly got injected with a certain budget and everybody is fighting for a piece of that pie.

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4000 Point Trading Range?

October 27th, 2008 | Filed under: Financial Markets,

Breaking News: The markets have tumbled terribly.

Yeah, so obviously we are all familiar with the markets’ problems, but, unless we experience the greatest bull run of all time, it could be some time before we even get close to breaking out of this slump.

Large Rally Could Mean Absolutely Nothing

October 14th, 2008 | Filed under: Financial Markets,

The markets did jump nicely yesterday, but does it really mean anything? Could this just be a bounce, or is this the beginning of a new bull run? According to the charts, the rally could mean absolutely nothing. Take a look at it for yourselves.

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Don’t Do It

October 11th, 2008 | Filed under: Financial Markets, ,

It almost seems like the media is egging the economy to get worse and worse. Now lets enjoy the weekend while more bad news gets piled on only to make the next trading day that much worse.