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Daily Highlights: 10/30/09

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:25:15 GMT

Asian Stocks rise as earnings, Japan jobless data, stoke growth optimism.Bank of Japan keeps benchmark rate at 0.1%, stops buying corporate debt.Dollar falls for fourth month against Euro, US growth aids risk demand.Japan central bank forecasts 3 years of deflation as it ends emergency credit steps.[More...]

Ecomonic Stimulus: Do We Need More?

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:30:33 GMT

When the history of the recent financial crisis and Great Recession is written, the basic conclusion that will be presented is that a financial crisis can be ended and a major recession turned around if the government throws massive amounts of money at the economy.[More...]

Why Is The Market Going Up When Jobs Are Going Down?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:22:27 GMT

Last month the national unemployment average rose to 9.8%. It’s actually at 17% if you count distressed and underemployed workers. Not only is unemployment data weak, it’s getting worse. Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan said unemployment would hit at least 10% before turning back.[More...]

Why It's Almost Time To Buy These Left For Dead Stocks

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:55:00 GMT

The last time this happened investors made 10 to 20 times their money. Now an opportunity for similar gains is fast approaching.[More...]

Our Outlook for Media & Telecom Stocks

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:06:18 GMT

We continue to favor the companies with strong competitive advantages.[More...]

Is Google's (GOOG) Micropayment Vehicle A Fresh Lease Of Life To Online Content Industry?

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:55:11 GMT

Till few months back, it looked as though news paper and journal industry would die due to the growing shift of readership from print to online. Though news paper industry quickly embraced click and portal model, it looked like going the carriage industry way due to lack of monetization solutions. However, survival instincts are deeply ingrained.[More...]

Newspaper Publishers Cannot Wait Longer For Better Times

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:11:40 GMT

With the economy showing signs of leveling off and providing hopes of recovery, newspaper publishers can hardly wait longer for better times.[More...]

The Problem That Won’t Go Away

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:18:03 GMT

With everyone hoping for positive GDP growth in Q3 and Goldman Sachs analyst Jan Hatzius now predicting growth at an annual rate of three percent in the second half of the year, the banks, investors, and politicians are all hoping that that nasty problem of foreclosures would just go away already. Unfortunately for everyone – especially the people losing their houses – there’s no reason for it to go away. Unemployment is always a lagging indicator, and given the record low number of average hours worked, it will turn around especially slowly this time. Until then, people will continue to lose their jobs and wages will remain flat, and any small rebound in housing prices is unlikely to help more than a few people refinance their way out of unaffordable mortgages. So unless the other part of the equation – monthly payments – changes, the number of foreclosures should just continue to rise. [More...]

Biggest Barrier To Health Care Reform Is People Who Think It Will Hurt Them

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:08:00 GMT

Right now, it appears that the biggest barrier to health care reform is people who think that it will hurt them. According to a New York Times poll, “69 percent of respondents in the poll said they were concerned that the quality of their own care would decline if the government created a program that covers everyone.” Since most Americans currently have health insurance, they see reform as a poverty program – something that helps poor people and hurts them. If that’s what you think, then this post is for you. You do not have health insurance. Let me repeat that. You do not have health insurance. (Unless you are over 65, in which case you do have health insurance. I’ll come back to that later.) The point of insurance is to[More...]

Who Should Hide Behind The Regulatory Shield?

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:46:29 GMT

This guest post was contributed by Ilya Podolyako, a recent graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was co-chair of the Progressive Law and Economic Policy reading group with James Kwak. The development of the news coverage of high-frequency trading has been quite interesting. The story started out with a criminal complaint that Goldman Sachs lodged against Sergey Aleynikov, a former employee who allegedly stole some secret computer code from the Goldman network before departing for a new job in Chicago. Incidentally, Mr. Aleynikov appeared to be headed to Teza Technologies, a company recently started by Mikhail Malyshev, who had previously been in[More...]

EDITORIAL: Dollar Deliberations

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:51:00 GMT

Nov. 6--Amid the mixed signals the national economy is sending -- gross domestic product is up, but so is unemployment -- the value of the U.S. dollar relative to other currencies is a piece of the puzzle that must be considered.
As much as is possible, the federal government must try to influence the dollar's value to coincide with its goals of bolstering the middle class.
The tumble has come from U.S. policy that waters down its value by printing more money and lowering interest rates.

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Daily Highlights: 10/30/09

Ecomonic Stimulus: Do We Need More?

Why Is The Market Going Up When Jobs Are Going Down?

Why It's Almost Time To Buy These Left For Dead Stocks

Our Outlook for Media & Telecom Stocks

Is Google's (GOOG) Micropayment Vehicle A Fresh Lease Of Life To Online Content Industry?

Newspaper Publishers Cannot Wait Longer For Better Times

The Problem That Won’t Go Away

Biggest Barrier To Health Care Reform Is People Who Think It Will Hurt Them

Who Should Hide Behind The Regulatory Shield?

EDITORIAL: Dollar Deliberations

Republicans say 'change' issue favors them

Deluxe works to honor Nirvana's 'Bleach'

EDITORIAL: Spill in Australia

Companies' Tamiflu purchases questioned

EDITORIAL: Firing Up the EPA

Pop Warner coach removed after fight

Harvard loses $1.8B in operating cash

EDITORIAL: An Improved Forecast

BofA Board's E-Mails Show State of Mind As Bank Slashed Dividend

StockPreacher.com Issues Trading Outlook for Media General Inc. (MEG)

The New York Times Company Reports 2009 Second-Quarter Results

The New York Times Company, Univision and WNYC Enter Into Exchange/Sale Agreement That Preserves WQXR’s Classical Music Format and Enables WCAA to Expand Its Coverage

The Boston Globe Launches “GlobeReader” Digital Newspaper

About.com Expands Its Content with Celebrity Guest Authors

The Boston Globe Appoints Peter S. Canellos as Editor, Editorial Page

The New York Times Company to Webcast Second-Quarter 2009 Earnings Conference Call

The New York Times Launches Enhanced Version of Times Reader Powered By Adobe AIR

NYTimes.com Introduces “The Moral of the Story” an Ethicist’s Take on the News

NYTimes.com Launches ‘The Choice’ Blog Dedicated to the College Admissions Process

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