Monday, 11 October 2010


By Larry Elliott in Washington
The International Monetary Fund was seeking to defuse growing tensions over global currencies yesterday amid fears that the US will respond to its stubbornly high unemployment figures by slapping tariffs on Chinese goods. Continue



By Daniel Tencer

S&P:Predicts US will have a debt of 415% of GDP by 2050 - Some sixty percent of the world's economies will be so in debt by 2060 that their debt will be downgraded to "junk" status, effectively bankrupting the countries. Continue



By Zachary A. Goldfarb

Consumer advocates and lawyers warned federal officials in recent years that the U.S. foreclosure system was designed to seize people's homes as fast as possible, often without regard to the rights of homeowners.Continue


Wells Fargo: No halt to foreclosures: Wells Fargo said Friday it has no plans to adopt a foreclosure moratorium despite Bank of America’s decision today to halt all foreclosures.

US banks fake documents to rush foreclosures: Major US banks systematically faked documents in order to speed up foreclosures for hundreds of thousands of homeowners, a mounting body of evidence shows. It appears likely that federal and state laws were broken in the process.

10,000 wait in line at Cal Expo in bid to save their homes: An estimated 10,000 people were in line Friday morning when the Cal Expo Pavilion's doors opened on a five-day event aimed at helping distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure.

A record 30% of unemployed out of work at least a year: A record 30% — or 4.4 million — of the nation's 14.7 million unemployed workers were out of work at least a year in August, up from 23% in December, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data

Third world America: Collapsing bridges, street lights turned off, cuts to basic services: the decline of a superpower

72,000 stimulus payments went to dead people: More than 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison, a government investigator says in a new report.