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More experts now warn U.S. already in grip of recession (Houston Chronicle)
Job losses are nearing the staggering level of a quarter-million this year in just three months. One expert advises: "If you've got a job, hang on to it the best you can."
2008-04-05 06:29:25 -
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2008-04-05 07:13:19 -
Pensioners doing it tough (Adelaide Now)
STRUGGLING aged pensioners have told how they live with deprivation and hardship, financially crippled by current pension rates.
2008-04-05 07:40:24 -
Home builders back new tax credit (The News & Observer)
Industry looks for help to boost sales.
2008-04-05 12:52:53 -
Mboweni: Inflation remains a key challenge (Mail and Guardian)
Inflationary pressures pose a greater challenge to Southern Africa than global financial-market turmoil, South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Friday.
2008-04-04 11:36:50 -
Anatomy of a 'short sale' (San Jose Mercury News)
What is a "short sale"? It's when a homeowner facing foreclosure sells his or her property for less than what is owed to the mortgage lender.
2008-04-05 01:48:27 -
Payroll figures show an economy tumbling (Seattle Times)
The Labor Department numbers released Friday were far worse than economists had forecast. There is widening agreement that the first recession since 2001 has arrived.
2008-04-05 12:30:30 -
TELEVISION SHOW FEATURES LOCAL HOMES (Mobile Press-Register)
Keyna and Val Vialpando are do-it-yourselfers who can't stop tinkering with their house. "Home Depot and Lowes are our second homes," quipped Keyna Vialpando, whose west Mobile house and family will be featured on national television Sunday in a segment of the HGTV program "My House is Worth What?"
2008-04-05 02:24:49 -
Has McCain learned his lesson? (Orange County Register)
Senator, of the 'Keating Five,' suggests loosening accounting rules during credit mess. It sounds eerily similar to his strategy during S&L crisis.
2008-04-05 03:19:47 -
EU Seeks Coordinated G-7 Response to Credit Squeeze (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
April 5 (Bloomberg) -- European finance ministers will press their counterparts from the Group of Seven major industrialized nations for greater coordination in battling the credit squeeze that threatens global economic growth, according to the draft of a confidential report prepared for next week's meeting.
2008-04-05 04:47:58 -
Bush housing aid not much (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
The Bush administration's initiative to bolster the housing market may never catch up to the fast clip of the foreclosure crisis.
2008-04-05 02:41:57 -
FDIC chief: We could do more (The Charlotte Observer)
The government didn't do enough to prevent the current crisis in the mortgage industry, and it will need more authority to be able to effectively end it, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. told a Charlotte audience Thursday night. "We should have been on top of our game," said Sheila Bair, the FDIC's chairwoman since 2006, speaking at a conference sponsored by the UNC School of ...
2008-04-05 05:34:55 -
Turnout high in special election (Baxter Bulletin)
Staff and poll workers at the Baxter County Courthouse were kept busy Friday as voters turned out for early voting in the special school election.
2008-04-05 03:13:17 -
What went wrong at UBS? (International Herald Tribune)
After tens of billions of dollars in write-downs, shareholders wonder how their prudent, thrift Swiss banker lost its footing. Some blame not the bank, but the United States, where the bulk of those losses occurred.
2008-04-05 06:10:29 -
Short Silver (GoldSeek.com)
Reflections Return to Marking of Myths! The tumultuous 1 st quarter is now behind us and what a quarter it was. VOLATILITY IS OPPORTUNITY and wonderful fireworks of volatility exploded across all asset classes providing bucket loads of OPPORTUNITIES for prepared investors.
2008-04-03 07:45:34