Archive for May, 2009

Rogerson Mulls Awesome Planet For Derby (Virtual Form Guide)

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Leading Queensland Derby contender Bid Spotter could be joined in Saturday’s classic by stablemate Awesome Planet.

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Silicon Alley’s Bitter Awards Scramble [Conflicts Of Interest] (Gawker)

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

For a startup founder itching to cash out, the recession can be tough: The economy fades hopes for an acquisition or plum funding round. Perhaps this explains some of the testiness around this year’s…

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Executive Pay: City of Elk Grove (Elk Grove Citizen)

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Wednesday night, city officials from Elk Grove will be – like most other communities across California – examining the upcoming 2009-10 budget, receiving public feedback on the issue, discussing options, and making recommendations to reduce the city’s budget.

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How exotic mortgages became time bombs (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Four years ago, when subprime mortgage loans were hot commodities, investors enthusiastically bought pieces of a pool of 5,500 mortgages that covered $984 million in homeowner debt.

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Leaders’ aides get generous overtime (Lexington Herald-Leader)

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

FRANKFORT — As the Kentucky General Assembly repeatedly slashed the budgets of most state age

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‘Security First rule offers some protection to homeowners (Contra Costa Times)

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Law of the Land: Real estate information

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Lost resorts: The Credit Suisse loan debacle (CNN Money)

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Credit Suisse, the large Swiss financial services firm run by the American investment banker Brady Dougan, has sidestepped the worst of the financial crisis. But between 2004 and 2006, the bank was not above making more than $3 billion of senior secured “predatory” (according to one judge) loans to high-end real estate developers operating mostly in the western United States.

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Selfish Hope For Homeowners (Forbes)

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Mortgage investors have their own reasons for wanting Obama’s refinancing program to work.

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Playing It Safe In Foreign Stock Markets (Investopedia via Yahoo! Finance)

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Find out some of the lower-risk ways to invest in foreign markets.

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Joe’s demise ‘didn’t have to happen’ (The Oregonian)

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

People familiar with the deal that brought down the 57-year-old outdoor store contend the chain could have survived had lenders been more cooperative

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