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Bruce Anderson: Human beings still don't understand money (Independent)
The centre of Edinburgh is full of Victorian banking halls. Resplendent in marble pillars and wood panelling, monuments to a previous age, they are also symbols of a new one. Many of them have become wine bars. Something was lost, one feels, when the banking culture was displaced by a wine bar culture.
2008-03-23 05:24:32 -
Up Next (CBS News)
What's coming up next on 60 Minutes .
2008-03-23 05:26:43 -
Japan's Watanabe urges U.S. to inject funds: report (Boston Globe)
The United States should inject public funds into its financial system to solve the mortgage crisis that has sparked global credit fears, Japan's financial services minister was quoted as saying by the Financial Times.
2008-03-23 05:46:11 -
Parma homeowner uses 'short sale' to get out of mortgage (The Plain Dealer)
It took some doing, but Chuck Gumina is selling his Parma home and is getting out from under an interest-only mortgage he cannot afford. Wells Fargo Bank has agreed to a "short sale" on Gumina's Pershing Avenue home for $89,000.
2008-03-23 05:32:34 -
Financial Q&A: Readers' money questions answered (The Christian Science Monitor)
Using some of an inheritance to pay down a mortgage.
2008-03-23 08:34:40 -
Bush combines concern, optimism on economy (USA Today)
As he has done throughout the economic slump, President Bush combines empathy with enthusiasm in his speeches. On the one hand, he acknowledges problems with housing, credit, oil and food. On the other hand, he wants to herald low unemployment and high productivity.
2008-03-23 01:21:17 -
Light at end of tunnel or false dawn? (KPLC Lake Charles)
By Emily Kaiser WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world economy may be in for a painful reality check this week, should a heavy slate of housing-related data point to more mortgage...
2008-03-23 02:01:53 -
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WELCOME GUEST! Asian currencies ended the week mixed against the dollar, with the Japanese yen up against the greenback but the Australian and New Zealand dollars falling amid ongoing world market turmoil.
2008-03-23 02:28:59 -
CRUNCH TIME (Sunday Herald)
The global credit panic has precipitated a crisis that threatens to spiral out of control. But, argues Andrew Crockett, It doesn’t need to be that way
2008-03-22 04:40:52 -
Fear stalks the financial world, hampering growth (Pioneer Press)
It will be difficult for the economy to grow or for the market to reverse its course while fear is stalking the financial world.
2008-03-22 10:19:43 -
Reverse mortgages can be tricky option (Eagle-Tribune Online)
Q: I am a 59-year-old single woman recently approved for Social Security Disability benefits. Two years ago I had a stroke. I assumed I would eventually be able to return to work, but health complications made that impossible.
2008-03-23 04:02:58 -
When job shifts loom, it can pay to keep open mind (The Capital)
After his systems-engineer position was outsourced in late 2006, Korey Reid took his career in a new direction. He's now a sales manager at a company that provides computer-based training - a job he got by leveraging the expertise he gained during his 15 years in technology.
2008-03-23 07:12:50 -
Good old days are gone... but don't tell (Independent Online)
Even now if you turn off the radio or television blaring the latest news of financial apocalypse, you can pretend that it's still business as usual, writes Rupert Cornwell from the US.
2008-03-23 08:57:17 -
Did congressional candidate Gary Dodds conjure up hoax to boost campaign? (Times & Transcript)
maybe a deer - darts across the dark highway, a blur of motion obscured by the swirling snow.
2008-03-23 09:16:48 -
More News (Daily Breeze)
WASHINGTON - It's been almost an article of faith: Any recession this year will be mild and brief.
2008-03-23 09:35:56