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• The Consumer and the Stock Market Storm
Marta, economic and fixed income strategist for RBC Capital Markets (RY) in New York, worries that a negative feedback loop might be forming, where short-term funding problems at Wall Street firms start to spread to companies and municipalities ...
• Financial crisis shock waves hit municipalities
It's not just on Wall Street where dubious financial decisions are creating casualties. Municipalities, many of which made enormous financial promises when the economy was strong, are now confronting heavy fiscal burdens. When the last major bank ...
• Democrats got many concessions in bailout
... highly paid, underperforming executives. The ultimate goal of the plan remains the same: buy bad mortgage-related bets from weakened financial companies so they can raise fresh capital and resume normal lending operations to businesses, municipalities ...
• September 2008 (201)
SEDONA, Ariz. -- In between her debate-prep sessions here, Palin called into the conservative Hugh Hewitt radio program Tuesday, decrying the lack of journalism ethics and repeatedly referring to herself as “Joe Six Pack.” Oct. 1: Sarah Palin ...
• Amid credit crunch, cities’ borrowing gets costly
But if no agreement is reached soon, municipalities could be forced to scale back or postpone spending plans. Lending to consumers and businesses has fallen to a dangerously slow pace amid the credit crisis that is now more than a year old. Borrowing ...