Posts Tagged ‘Financial’
|Summary Box: New consumer financial protection
Summary Box: New consumer financial protection
CONSUMER PROTECTION LOOPHOLES: A financial overhaul bill awaiting a Senate vote would create a new regulator to oversee consumer loans. But community banks and auto dealers won’t be covered.
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6 Ways Financial Reform Will ChangeYour Personal Finances
6 Ways Financial Reform Will ChangeYour Personal Finances
New rules will affect everything from credit scores and student loans to whether you use credit or debit cards to pay for your morning cup of coffee.
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Opie & Anthony: Louis CK Explains…The Financial Collapse – Part 3 of 3
Louis talks about the recession, the fucked economy, and hiding money in a safe. The boys also discuss how Obama will handle the legacy of unsustainable financial success. Louis mentions the episode “The Giant Pool of Money” from This American Life on NPR, which you can listen to here: www.thisamericanlife.org Part 3 of 3.
The Psychology of the Financial Crisis
In this talk, Nicholas Barberis, the Stephen & Camille Schramm Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management, will discuss the role that irrational thinking and decision-making may have played in the development of the current economic downturn. Drawing on ideas from both social and cognitive psychology, he will shed light on this relatively neglected aspect of the crisis. This lecture was delivered at the Association of Yale Alumni Reunion Weekend on June 5, 2009.
Financial Armageddon 2.0 – TOTAL BREAKDOWN avoided last minutes before Markets opened
www.berninger.de On Sunday night the Situation in the European banking system had heatet up so much that finally FRANCE went bust. French SubPrime Minister Sarkozy pushed the rescue package as France was de-facto bankrupt amid a dry up for French debt issuance.
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Are you getting the same-o, same-o, same-o advice from financial advisors and creditors as to how to reduce your debt obligations? Do they want you to get a new loan to pay off your old debts … only starting the 15, 30 or 45 year payment trek all over again?
A look at the lobbying behind weak financial rules
A look at the lobbying behind weak financial rules
Lobbyists swarmed Capitol Hill as Congress debated the most sweeping overhaul to financial rules since the Great Depression….
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Part 2/2 Bird & fortune – Financial crisis – Silly Money, Nov 08
2nd Nov 2008. Bird and Fortune on Silly Money satirising the absurdity of the financial crisis.
Merkel Pressed on Financial Tax as EU Loans Plan Goes to Vote
Merkel Pressed on Financial Tax as EU Loans Plan Goes to Vote
May 18 (Bloomberg) — Chancellor Angela Merkel ’s coalition pressed for a financial levy to be introduced “as quickly as possible,” as they prepared to put the euro-region’s $1 trillion bailout plan to the German parliament this week.
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