Tag: Finance

“Good To Great” Index Not So Great…

Circuit City Stores and Fannie Mae show that companies singled out as great don’t necessarily make worthwhile investments.  The companies were among 11 featured seven […]

Bail Out My Mortgage

I’ve kept quiet about this for quite some time.  Mostly because it’s probably a pretty sensitive topic for some people.  But, well, I can’t control […]

Volkswagen Takes Off!

Finally, something that’s up!  Volkswagen almost tripled its market capitalization today, closing around 218 on Friday and reaching an intra-day high today above 625!  To put that […]

Circuit Breakers Kick In

I meant to put this up last Friday but got a little tied up…  Anyway, there’s been a lot of markets halted since this whole […]

Iceland Rescued?

A follow up to the post I put up about Iceland’s woes: Icelandic Freeze Iceland and the International Monetary Fund will probably announce an agreement […]

Timeline: Global Credit Crunch

An interesting credit crunch timeline from BBC, thanks Ché Garcia (click on the image below for the full article).

Icelandic Freeze

This is a bit of an eye-opening story I read this morning.  For a country completely isolated out there in the Alantic it’s a very […]

Central Bank Execution-Style Rate Cuts

The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and four other central banks lowered interest rates in an unprecedented coordinated effort to ease the economic effects of […]