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List Of Failed Banks
Date Name of bank Assets City State Acquired by FDIC cost 8/20/10 Sonoma Valley Bank $337.1 million Sonoma Calif. Westamerica Bank $10.1 million 8/20/10 Los Padres Bank $870.4 million Solvang Calif....
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Did McCain Have A Better Mortgage Solution?
You would not expect to see liberals supporting policies that McCain took during the campaign regarding real estate. But that is what we see from David Woolner at NewDeal2.0 (the blog of the Roosevent...
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Is The World Going To Hell?
Scientific American asks, “If the world is going to hell, why are humans doing so well?” For decades, apocalyptic environmentalists (and others) have warned of humanity’s imminent doom, largely as a...
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Global Housing Prices Compared To United States
The Global Property Guide’s latest survey of house prices shows an uneven recovery in global housing markets during the year to the end of the 1st half of 2010. Some East Asian countries are enjoying...
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Money May Cause Unhappiness
We use it everyday, but do we understand the good and bad of money? There is no argument that it gives us access to pleasures and necessities. Try to be happy when you can’t buy food and it becomes...
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2010 – Where Is The Studs Terkel Of This Era?
Studs Terkel gave a voice to workers in his bestselling book Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. It is Labor Day Weekend. Start of the football...
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The American Dream – Busted Elevators
“Nowadays in America, you have a smaller chance of swapping your lower income bracket for a higher one than in almost any other developed economy – even Britain on some measures. To invert the classic...
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How To Win Arguments -(Beyond Slime Mould Thinking)
The sommelier (wine steward) comes to you and says that today they have two wines that would go great with your meal and they have a special on their prices. One is $15 and the other is $35. You...
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2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing...
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