By SusanUnPC on Jan 24, 2009 in American Consumers, Bank Nationalization, Credit Card Companies, Economy | 1 Comment
LD’s “Grand Central” Q&A is coming up at 9:00 a.m. ET. In LD’s thread, you can ask him a wide range of questions about the economy and your personal finances. He’ll be available from 9:00 to noon ET today. So, here’s a warm-up of possible topics from a range of news services: From CBS News: [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jan 17, 2009 in American Consumers, Auto Industry, Banking Institutions, Bernie Madoff, Credit Card Companies, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Infrastructure, Insurance Policies & Industry, Real Estate, Retail Businesses | 38 Comments
The station is filling up as the weather outside is getting very blustery. The markets and economy remain turbulent. Economies overseas are also in the midst of stormy weather. Banks are flooded with bad loans. The auto industry is praying for an Obama lifeline! Residential housing and commercial real estate continue to take on water. [...]
By NoQuarterLive on Nov 23, 2008 in Credit Card Companies, Current Affairs, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Home Loan, Housing & Housing Crisis, No Quarter Blog, NoQuarter Radio | 12 Comments
One of LD’s missions tonight will be to help us — each of us in our own personal lives and checking accounts and credit card bills and portfolios and 401Ks — avoid the scenario in that image (borrowed from Uppity) to your left. He chose this title for his new NoQuarter Radio show: No Quarter’s [...]
By SusanUnPC on Nov 22, 2008 in Credit Card Companies, Economic Stimulus, Economy, No Quarter Blog, NoQuarter Radio | 7 Comments
Tomorrow night — at 8:00 p.m. ET — you’re set for an exceptional new radio program through No Quarter’s channel at BlogTalkRadio.com: Get an hour’s worth of common sense about the economy, the markets, Wall St. and Main St. with “LD,” a Wall St. veteran and NoQuarterUSA blog’s financial whiz. Call in Sunday night, 8 [...]
By Larry Doyle on Nov 11, 2008 in American Consumers, Banking Institutions, Barack Obama, China, Credit Card Companies, Current Affairs, Dubai, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Mortgage Crisis, Real Estate, Retail Businesses, Workers | 49 Comments
I will admit that, given the current dynamics at work in the economy and the markets, I have become somewhat numbed as to the magnitude of some of the developments. Many of the highlights that I will offer from yesterday’s news would be enormous stories in and of themselves. Taken collectively, they do become overwhelming [...]
By Larry Doyle on Nov 8, 2008 in Credit Card Companies, Current Affairs, Economy, Home Loan, Housing & Housing Crisis, Unemployment, Zbigniew Brzezinski | 16 Comments
The highly anticipated October employment report came in as follows: unemployment rate 6.5% up from 6.1% non-farm payrolls -240k jobs vs consensus estimate of -200k September revision a loss of 284k jobs from initial estimate of 159k! Labor costs +3.5% year over year Jobs were lost in virtually every sector: manufacturing, construction, and especially the [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jan 5, 2008 in Clinton, Credit Card Companies, Economy, Obama | 55 Comments
Barack Obama Sided with Credit Card Loan Sharks While Hillary Clinton Stood Against Them Obama’s numerous corporate donors were pleased — especially The Bond Market Association‘s legislative affairs guy Mike Williams. While Obama voted against the 2005 bankruptcy bill, he voted against “an important amendment, which was defeated, that would have capped credit-card interest rates [...]