Finance and Real Estate Blog Posts for Monday
Fund of the Week: BTTRX American Century Target Maturity 2025 Why The “Bad Bank” Is A Bad Idea An Increasingly Popular Alternative To Layoffs ... Property Reveals Andalucia Dream Homes Survey Good and Bad Company Experiences in 2008 5 Ways to Talk ... to Consider Stumbled upon a cool gift idea: Custom Trading Cards by Topps! The MBA Cycle Part2 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 21:13:50
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How to create a speculative bubble and profit
By Xin Lu Recently I read an enlightening story in the New York Times about the Pu'er tea bubble in Yunan, China ... dieting. In America homeownership is touted as "The American Dream". Both of these products were ... to new "investors". In America there was a frenzy of flipping homes by individuals and large [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 21:39:43
Archeologists of the Housing Bust: Ghost towns for real ... by gimleteye
.fullpost{display:inline;}All those civic activists fighting suburban sprawl didn't have to wait long for instant suburbs to turn to goop on a bank's ... in bargain-priced homes. In reality, the development is a modern-day ghost town.It's the size of 70-football ... systems. An American dream was turned into a nightmare when a bank took over the [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 17:57:00
Sudan's Lost Boys Pursue Olympic and American Dreams (interview with Dominic Maurice)
Virginia Mitchell and Charlton Breen of the Michigan Darfur Coalition (MDC) recently sat down for an interview with Dominic Maurice ... in the village of Chukueum in Southern Sudan. Chukueum was a beautiful village surrounded by mountains. Our family lived on a farm. My father was a teacher, while my mother stayed home to tend to our house [more...]
Date: 2008-08-15 01:40:06
Entrepreneurs Ask VCs for Cash Back
This week’s $250 million funding for vacation home rental listing company HomeAway Inc ... years of work worthwhile. It’s the American dream, Silicon Valley-style. But what if entrepreneurs [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 05:00:25
“WE ARE ONE” - Barack Obama Speaking @ His Inaugural Celebration in Lincoln Memoria 1-18-09
Ask any of the 400,000 people who stood in the freezing cold for hours at the We Are One inaugural concert what the most exciting moment was and ... . Millions of Americans are losing their jobs and their homes; they’re worried about how they’ll ... , that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time. What gives me hope [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 01:42:08
Obama: USA will endure, it will prevail
US President-elect Barack Obama speaking at the Lincoln Memorial concert yesterday ... is in crisis. Millions of Americans are losing their jobs and their homes; they're worried about how ... , that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time. What gives me hope [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 02:53:25
Killing The American Dream
by Steve Soto On a day when Paul Krugman showed us that the Bush Administration’s own Labor Department reported that the broadest measure of ... will be on the street, tossed out of their foreclosed homes [more...]
Date: 2008-10-04 04:29:08
Aquilo que o politicamente correcto anda a esconder
Significantly, a disproportionate number of subprime borrowers belonged to ethnic minorities ... in Boston who had obtained loans for single-family homes in 2005 had been given subprime mortgages ... minority homeowners by the end of the decade, Bush signed the American Dream Downpayment Act in 2003 [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 18:44:01
Obama's Speech At Lincoln Memorial
Here is the text of Obama's speech, as prepared for delivery: I want to thank all the speakers and performers for reminding us, ... of Americans are losing their jobs and their homes; they're worried about how they'll afford college ... today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure - that the dream [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 22:49:11
Full text of Barack Obama's 'We Are One' speech, Jan. 18, 2009
[ President-elect Barack Obama complete with subtitles speaks to thousands gathered on the National Mall 1-18-09 for the inauguration's opening ... of Americans are losing their jobs and their homes; they're worried about how they'll afford college ... States of America will endure, that the dream [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 14:47:54
Please, John, We’re All Socialists Now
by paradox A huge reason John McCain and the Republican Party are going to get wiped out in 15 days is because ordinary Americans are very angry ... . All these folks that have lost their homes, nobody bailed them out. All of our people with no health care ... dream, the only one given to them with their time on the planet, is smashed in ruins around [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 12:43:28
An Inaugural Dream? 'Pinch Me,' She Says
An Inaugural Dream? ‘Pinch Me,’ She Says By Ashley Southall Like millions of Americans, Rochelle Wilks had simple plans for the inauguration. She had expected to be home in Jackson, Miss., glued to her television as President-elect Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 03:36:41
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Obama’s Succcess
Henry Louis Gates Jr., editor in chief of The Oxford African American Studies Center, ... . Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed to the world that he had a dream, in the shadow of a brooding ... celebration that manifested itself in black homes, gathering places, and the streets of our communities [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 19:16:17
a dream deferred
Date: 2009-01-19 07:07:00
Home Ownership is Still the American Dream
home ownership is still the american dream I saw an ad in the paper featuring the new housing development we almost bought in March of 2007 ... their homes’ current value. No kidding when any down payment less than $175,000 already went down ... of all homes with mortgages will soon be under water. Yikes. But then I think about all these stats [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 15:38:52
How Foreclosure is Bringing Back the American Dream
Fewer than three years ago the American real estate market was at an all time high; the median home cost—$245, ... ; for those who hadn’t yet achieved it, the American dream was on life support. Last year, a 125% rise ... American Dream” is indeed to own a home, and if high real estate prices were preventing people [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 17:59:32
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