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strogy
(50)
Credit crunch - do you feel it?

Sitting in front of my pc and thinking of rubbish. How the hell i'm gona save some extra monies.Petrol -or if you want- gas prices making me laugh, household bills getting on my nerves and all you...

Started by strogy (50) in life • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: cost, credit crunch, money

ruby222
(2320)
About turn..credit card!

I dont have a lot of idea how the credit cards calculate the way the interest builds up,but I do know one thing,that my son is a surfer,im hoping that is what its called!!but he will change his...

Started by ruby222 (2320) in life • 7 responses • Last response by livewyre (652) • 2 hours ago
Tags: credit card, credit crunch, mastercard, vias maestro

Jemina
(2238)
The Credit Crunch: More than 75,000 homes in the UK could be repossessed...

by the end of 2008. That's according to a magazine article I read recently. I feel bad for those people whose homes have been repossessed. Also with the credit crunch and the current crisis, the...

Started by Jemina (2238) in england • 8 responses • Last response by livewyre (652) • 1 month ago
Tags: credit crunch, boom times, credit, depression, environment

CEVCEV
(146)
Credit crunch

Can any one share ways of making money during this current credit crunch/ recession.?????????

Started by CEVCEV (146) in make extra money • 3 responses • Last response by livewyre (652) • 2 months ago
Tags: money, credit crunch, recession
 

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Econbrowser
(2)
Synergies of the unpleasant kind: recessions, credit crunches and housing busts

From the abstract of a new paper by Stijn Claessens, M. Ayhan Kose and Marco E. Terrones, entitled "What Happens During Recessions, Crunches and Busts?" (paper now online here):We provide a...

Started in Econbrowser • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: recession, housing bust, credit crunch

Econbrowser
(2)
Due diligence

Tanta caught this story from the Orange County Register:In November, Wells Fargo issued a $289,275 mortgage for 920 W. Camile to an investor who had purchased the home at a foreclosure auction. In...

Started in Econbrowser • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: housing, macroeconomics, credit crunch, mortgage fraud

Econbrowser
(2)
Credit crunch: how we got here and how to get out

Fed Chair Ben Bernanke on Tuesday offered his perspective on the appropriate response of the Fed to the ongoing turmoil in financial markets. I still think he's overlooking a key element of what's...

Started in Econbrowser • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: federal reserve, macroeconomics, economics, credit crunch, bernanke

Econbrowser
(2)
Some more unwelcome developments

New bankruptcies as consumer sentiment deteriorates.Market Watch reports that the University of Michigan/Reuters index of consumer sentiment fell to 63.2 in April. It's been below the trough reached...

Started in Econbrowser • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: recession, macroeconomics, gas prices, credit crunch

Econbrowser
(2)
Quick links

Here are a couple of nice summaries of the credit crunch and the Fed's response.If you took a college course on monetary policy more than six months ago, what you learned has already been rendered...

Started in Econbrowser • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: federal reserve, macroeconomics, economics, money supply, credit crunch

Econbrowser
(2)
More bad news

More confirmation that the slowdown in housing has spilled over to manufacturing.The Federal Reserve Board announced this week that its index of industrial production fell 0.5% between January and...

Started in Econbrowser • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: recession, macroeconomics, economics, credit crunch

Econbrowser
(2)
Another 75

How much ammo is left in that fed funds gun?Interesting reaction yesterday at the Chicago Board of Trade to the Fed's decision to reduce its target for the fed funds rate by 75 basis points to a new...

Started in Econbrowser • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: federal reserve, macroeconomics, economics, fed funds rate, credit crunch

Mispricing
(1)
The Global Economy’s Inevitable Hard Landing

In recent weeks, the global liquidity and credit crunch that started last August has become more severe. This is easy to show: in the United States, the euro zone, and the United Kingdom, spreads...

Started in Mispricing • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: global economy, credit crunch, nouriel roubini

Mispricing
(1)
Prem Watsa: He has never been more bearish

The head of Fairfax Financial had a front-row seat when the Japanese market began its 15-year retreat. And he thinks the U.S. indexes might be about to do the same.The global credit squeeze is in its...

Started in Mispricing • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: prem watsa, credit crunch, fairfax financial

Mispricing
(1)
Buffett could reap gains from credit turmoil: report

Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., may cash in from the credit market turmoil and worries surrounding the financial strength of bond insurers, including Ambac Financial Group Inc....

Started in Mispricing • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: credit crunch, warren buffett