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The total collapse of the economy is eminent. All those who know enough to open their eyes agree. The question that needs answered is, "is there a FIX?". Can anything feasable be done that will not disrupt society totally? Current proposals
Ameriprise Financial, one of six life insurers offered federal bailout funds, said it is turning down the money. Prudential, which also was granted preliminary approval for taxpayer capital, signaled that it hasn't decided whether to accept the a
I am writting as I have to other websites and newspapers in regards what to do about helping those in foreclosure or getting all those out of debt. It is time to stop sending OUR Money to the Banks and others as stimulous money and give US OUR MONEY.
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U.S. credit card defaults rose in April to record highs, with Citigroup and Wells Fargo posting double digit loss rates ...
Consumer prices were flat in April, while industrial production fell by the smallest amount in six months - further evidence that the recession's grip is slowly easing.
General Motors Corp. on Friday told about 1,100 dealers, or nearly 20 percent of its U.S. network, that they will be fired by the automaker late next year because their sales are weak.
Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe: Interview with Ron Paul. Joe is talking about his new book, “The Last Best Hope”. And how Joe is “STUNNED” about a warning Ron Paul had made in Banking committee so he reprinted it in its entirety. “The special p
Retail sales fell for a second straight month in April, a disappointing performance that raised doubts about whether consumers were regaining their desire to shop. A rebound in consumer demand is a necessary ingredient for ending the recession.
You, after reading that statement may think that I am some kind of nut. After you've paid your house payment, car payment, credit card, food, gas plus every other bill and have a lot of month left, may not agree with that state
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"Credit card lines are being cut at an accelerating pace," Whitney said on Tuesday, "and this clearly does not bode well for consumer confidence or prospective consumer spending."
William Engdahl believes the US economy is about to enter 10 years of hell.
This shows that retail sales fell off a cliff in late 2008, and are still declining...
The largest U.S. automaker said last month it plans to shrink its dealer network to about 3,600 from the 6,200 outlets it operated at the end of last year as part of the restructuring plan it presented to the Obama administration.
Chinese automakers like Chery and BYD have been trying to break into the U.S. market for years, but General Motors could become the first automaker to sell China-made vehicles in America. A new document reveals GM is planning to sell China-made cars
Advanta Corp., the credit-card issuer for small businesses, may leave 1 million customers scrounging to find new lenders and debt holders facing losses of 35 percent after the company shut down accounts to preserve capital.
Barry Knapp, a strategist at Barclays Capital, wrote recently that the economy appears "to be in the sweet spot of a recovery" and that the recession may have ended last month, according to Bloomberg News.
General Motors stock plunged more than 22% to a 76-year low, a day after a group of GM executives disclosed they had sold shares in the struggling automaker. GM executives disclosed they liquidated their remaining direct holdings in the automaker.
“It looks to me now as if the markets are now pricing in a rapid recovery, that they’re pricing in a V-shaped recession, which I consider extremely unlikely,” Krugman, 56, said at a forum in Shanghai today.
General Motors is open to considering moving its headquarters from Detroit, selling off U.S. plants and even renegotiating parts of its restructuring plan with its major union, the new chief executive said Monday.
Robert C. Murtha Jr. has made a sizable living for years working with companies that rely on Pentagon contracts over which his uncle, Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), holds considerable sway.
The storms are not abating. Nor are they changing direction. Quite the contrary, what you see today is, at best, merely a deceptive calm before the next, even larger tempests. For investors who follow Wall Street, it could be fatal.
Ron Paul appeared on Fox Business on May 7, 2009 to say that the stress tests are just propaganda and all the problems we face can be traced to the Federal Reserve.
By 2012, thousands of enclosed malls, strip malls, unfinished residential developments, motels, truck stops, distribution centers, middle-of-nowhere resorts and casinos, and small-city airports across America will turn into dilapidated, unwanted, and
The White House on Monday pushed up its forecast for the U.S. budget deficit for this year by $89 billion, reflecting the recession, a raft of new unemployment claims and corporate bailouts.
The idea that we can have some sort of economic recovery while the sales tax receipts - which are a direct measurement of consumer activity - are down by half is pure insanity. Where is the economic activity that is going to create this "recove
It is approaching 6 million job losses per year. This is uncharted territory, an annual rate of change unprecedented for as long as the data has been tracked, going back to 1939:
A fresh estimate of the deficit showed it coming in at $1.84 trillion -- representing a massive 12.9 percent of gross domestic product -- in the current 2009 fiscal year that ends on September 30.
The US risks a Japan-style lost decade of growth if it does not take aggressive action to stimulate its economy and clean up its banking system, Paul Krugman said. "We're doing half-measures that help the economy limp along without fully rec
In October of 1995 the BLS revised their way of collecting data for unemployment. So if we are at 15.8% with the U-6 data, does that make our current employment situation worse than the 1980s recession? Absolutely.
