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BLOG.JMHAMILTONPUBLISHING.COM: Daily Archive - 2/10/2012

The Goverment Bailout of Detroit Has been Magnifient! “Detroit’s showing us it can be done,” he said as the music swelled.

“The Greeks understand that it’s not five minutes to midnight but 30 seconds to midnight,” Luxembourg Finance Minister Luc Frieden said.

"But the problems will fester and the housing market will continue to suffer."

The changes are tectonic, a result of social and economic processes unfolding over many decades.

Rally Halted

‘Crony Capitalism’

“Property rights and contract law once again take a beating,” Simon said

“State revenues are to be used first and foremost for debt service.”

The path to Facebook’s $5 billion offering involves months of negotiations with the SEC and presentations to investors.

Hedge funds profited from a 10 percent rise in the European banking sector in January, after the European Central Bank provided banks with 489 billion euros ($648 billion) of ultra-cheap, long-term cash, with more expected at the end of this month.

Private Equity Under Fire: Pension Fund Pull Back?

Goldman Sachs, the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history before converting to a bank in 2008, won an auction of bonds assumed in the U.S. central bank’s rescue of American International Group Inc. (AIG)

"After having just 'lost' a year on the [Deutsche Börse] deal, we believe management is now under pressure to deliver something for investors," said Alex Kramm, an analyst at UBS AG.

Aluminum prices, just under $3,000 a ton in 2007, were expected to continue their rise. Instead, the prices fell to under $1,500 a ton during 2009 before settling to around $2,200 today.

“I’m giving him credit for being an incredibly sharp steak knife.”

“There is no stigma whatsoever on these facilities,” Draghi said

Bear’s hedge funds were among the first prominent collapses related to the bursting of the housing bubble

OCEAN SIZE

So we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind.

In other words, Reagan wanted to be on the same team as the bishops.

The U.S. NSA and military Cyber Command are both located at Fort Meade outside Washington DC

The NRC voted 4-1 to allow Atlanta-based Southern Co to build and operate two new nuclear power reactors at its existing Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia.

Gross, based in Newport Beach, California, has also addressed negative real yields, calling them a form of “financial repression” in his investment outlook released last month.

Putin’s challengers in the March 4 presidential election have pledged to hold a new parliamentary vote in December.

The Stoxx Europe 600 Index slid 0.4 percent to 262.56 at 8:12 a.m. in London.

House Republican leaders eliminated a provision of the Senate-passed bill that would, for the first time, regulate firms that collect “political intelligence” for hedge funds, private equity funds and other investors.

Rep. Nita Lowey, (D., N.Y.) voted Thursday for the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act

While Citi may be the first company to stumble with the iPad, it is far from the only bank to encounter electronic hiccups.

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