Steven Emerson's Statement For Senate Committee Hearing on Extremism

Steven Emerson prepared the following written statement for the record for today's Senate committee hearing on violent extremism, which features Maajid Nawaz, former senior Hizbut official (see this article about the measures taken to bring him into the country this week). Steven Emerson Executive Director Investigative Project on Terrorism www [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 16:20:19

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Investors Continue to Bail Out of Hedge Funds

The fear of the markets was clear in November. Investors pulled a net $32 billion from hedge funds last month, ... and ending the industry’s 18 years of asset growth. To understand how deep the fear was, keep ... be the bottom for markets. January could see huge upside action in the markets. Labels: HedgeFunds [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 14:24:03

Myscha's Frugal Moving Tips: Taking the Stress Out of Relocation

Whether you are moving across town or across the country, relocating can be expensive and stressful, according to Myscha Theriault of Wise Bread, ... be easier to set up afterward,'' Theriault said. • Create a system. As you pack, put room labels ... asset on moving day. ''Take your time, tackle what you can and get the key systems set up first [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:47:04

Bernanke: You Say ‘Quantitative Easing,’ I Say ‘Credit Easing’

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in remarks delivered in London today, ... . In that approach, he said, “the composition of loans and securities on the asset side of the central bank’s balance sheet is incidental.” The Fed, instead, is focused on the asset side [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 17:06:00

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Fed Minutes show weak outlook, split on inflation. Minutes released yesterday from the August 5 FOMC meeting show the Fed expects weak economic growth and moderating inflation through to the end of the year, and committee members marked down their forecast for growth in the second half of this year and 2009 [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 11:07:53

'Tis the season for robbing banks, but for NABBING con guys. The Madoff scandal could have caused a nosedive. The reason it didn't isn't much comfort.

"In David Mamet's movie 'House of Games,' the grifter played by Joe Mantegna explains to a former mark, 'It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.' So the bankers gave us their confidence, in the form of mortgages and other forms of credit, and we gave them ours [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 18:00:00

Copyright in Vancouver Center

p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- The BC riding of Vancouver Center is an important one for copyright. This is not only because we feel that NDP candidate Michael Byers would be an asset in the committee studying copyright, but also because the incumbent Liberal MP Hedy Fry is someone [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 15:54:13

One voice of sanity - John Redwood.

Probably the sole figure in Parliament with the ideas and intellect to guide Britain through the coming period of depression is the MP for Wokingham ... borrowing binge. Asset prices escalated giddily on the back of easy money. Homes became unaffordable [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 08:35:00

Will the Salesian teaching order become a congregation of hackers?

I have yet to read this new book in progress, but I can hardly contain my enthusiasm when my favourite Catholic author on digital matters, Julian Fox, is striking again. The first news is that his congregation’s Bosconet is becoming a fully interactive wiki [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:06:10

Flight and fight

I've just recently been spending some time looking at City-data.com, which provides statistics on many things about towns and cities in all 50 states. The information is on things like population, demographics, housing, education, crime rates, and so on [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 05:14:00

Vejtables - Feel The Vejtables [1965-66]

A footnote of the dawn of San Francisco rock, the Vejtables scraped the bottom of the charts in 1965 with "I Still Love You," a pleasant, ... , but also on the same label. The Vejtables' chief distinguishing mark and asset was one of the very ... with the group). A couple more singles appeared on the Uptown and Tower labels in 1966, finding [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 13:02:00

Staples Canada Sells Barcoding Solutions By Wasp Barcode Technologies

PLANO, Texas (October 30, 2008) - Barcoding solutions are making their first appearance at 50 Staples® Business Depot™ office superstores, ... designed for small business, including software to create barcodes and scanners that read barcodes ... , barcode labeling software, and software for basic inventory and asset tracking. Additionally [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 11:08:26

OSO: A Deflationless Depression?

Doom friend One Salient Oversight is a world away from MISH in all senses. Just sit back with something hot and have a look at the view from tomorrow. A Deflationless Depression? by OSO Logic can be a bad weapon when the equation isn’t finished. Think back to the Great Depression [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 02:52:45

Concentric Circles of Community

I’ve come to think of Mozilla, or “the Mozilla community” as a set of concentric circles of communities. Actually, I’m thinking of Mozilla as concentric spheres of community, but I’m going to stick to circles for this post. For me the ability to be more precise about “community” is important in thinking about what Mozilla is, [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 22:24:06

Manzullo on WTTW

by Cal Skinner You know your congressman or state legislator has made the big time when he ends up on Chicago television ... of the asset mortgaged decreases. This suggestion is being hotly opposed by auditing firms. “Before [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 03:29:34

Scooter and Murph

Today's Wall Street Journal reminds us that President Bush has a chance to right a wrong in the final days of his administration ... questions about Ms. Plame's status as a covert asset. CIA Director Michael Hayden, anxious [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 19:42:00

Wealth Manager or Wealth Advisor? By Sydney LeBlanc

Wealth management goes deeper than overseeing portfolios or building a financial plan. The question is: Who is a wealth manager, and why do we have so many overlapping terms? Have we marketed our many  titles and designations so vigorously that the investor is thoroughly confused? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:50:40

The End of Trade's Golden Age

Put Bernie Madoff on the public payroll! Today, we're going to give the feds some advice. Many will find our advice repulsive. Others will find it shocking. Still others will think we are joking. True, the feds haven't asked our advice. And true, people will ice skate in Hell before they take it [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:25:25

The Music World As Seen By Doug Morris [Fireside Chats]

There's nothing like a glowing profile in Billboard to make a guy look good, and the mag's "exclusive" interview with Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO Doug Morris is no exception. His office is presented in "modest statements" (if you consider a drawing by Bono "modest") [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 15:45:00

Napster: worth more dead than alive

p2pnet news view | Music:- If you’re  a financial type, the quotes below might make perfect sense to you ... shoehorned into the American university system as a funnel for corporate ‘product,’ it’s never managed [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 11:14:50

Media & Politics (one section only today)

Media & Politics (one section only today) 31-Dec-08 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Black Agenda Report From the U.S. Artist General, via email ZAPSAP DS POISON (DOUBLE STANDARD) The heart-bound venom of it Troubles the bloodstream like lips in the arc of a drinking fountain, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 18:21:29

TRUCKS REPOSSESSIONS * USA - Down in 2008

NY,USA -Land Line Magazine -January 13, 2009: -- In what could be a bit of surprising economic news, heavy-duty truck repossessions were down in 2008 according to Nassau Asset Management... Truck repossessions processed by Nassau declined in 2008 from a high point in 2007, but the 2008 totals [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:50:19

The easy road will be harder in the long run

The chattering polical classes would all have us believe that government, the primary source of our current economic problems, ... pressures of bursting asset bubbles in real estate and stocks, forced liquidations in commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 19:59:00

How to Wreck the Economy

Everything you ever wanted to know about the biggest economic meltdown since the Great Depression but were afraid to ask. By Arun Gupta ... the fundamental worth of the asset. Bubbles have occurred in everything from real estate, stocks [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 03:11:24

The Bling Bubble

“Da Game is to be told, not to be sold.” — Snoop Dogg, 14th Annual Conference on Hip Hop Securitization In 2003, ... , asset-backed rappers appeared trapped in a dangerous cycle of gearing up and riding dirty that could [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 11:03:03

Quit Your Day Job: FarmsteadOrganics

Jennifer of FarmsteadOrganics recently contacted me with her story of selling on Etsy full time. Jennifer and her husband decided to make the most of some bad news when they found out her husband's company would be making some cut backs and he would be losing his job [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 22:46:00

Media Analyst to Redstone: 'Sell Paramount'

What are the chances that Sumner Redstone will sell Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures? Zip. But one Wall Street analyst, Rich Greenfield of Pali Reserach, thinks it's a good idea and is urging the octogenarian media mogul to unload the historic studio [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 23:48:11

Any sign that demilitarization is coming?

By Carol GeeUnder the Bush administration the United States was introduced to several new national security wrinkles, ... analysis by by Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus, "Experience will be prime asset for Obama's Spy Chiefs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 21:00:00

BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion

BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jun 2008 08: ... , the world’s fourth largest music market, where Sony BMG operates labels Arialo and Gun, the story ... , but with this asset reshuffling, Sony may be able to buy it for a net outlay of under $1 billion. Some other [more...]

Date: 2008-06-14 03:20:54

BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion

BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jun 2008 08: ... , the world’s fourth largest music market, where Sony BMG operates labels Arialo and Gun, the story ... , but with this asset reshuffling, Sony may be able to buy it for a net outlay of under $1 billion. Some other [more...]

Date: 2008-06-14 03:20:39

Bank of Baroda (BoB) - Buy stock to bank on it

#fullpost{display:inline;} With a network of over 2,800 branches across the country, Bank of Baroda (BoB) is one of the largest public sector banks in India.Beta: 1.06Institutional holding: 38.0%Current dividend yield: 2.9%Current P/E: 6.5Current m-cap : Rs 10,035.6 crCurrent market price: Rs 273 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:08:00

Some Recent Papers Of Interest

Banking Crises: An Equal Opportunity MenaceCarmen Reinhart & Kenneth RogoffNBER Working Paper, December 2008Abstract: ... crises are typically preceded by asset price bubbles, large capital inflows and credit booms, in rich [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 18:04:00

Market Wrap 2 January 2009

Impressive rally in the past days. I am suspicious when I see these rallies on thin volume during the holiday season ... have been printed and what is the probability that the next day tomorrow) the asset closes in the opposite [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 23:48:00

Value Stocks To Buy In 2009

#fullpost{display:inline;} These pessimistic times do present an opportunity for long term, ... of the bridge is an additional asset. The company expects further 40% growth in its average daily traffic over [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:48:00

Judge Blocks Wells Fargo Takeover of Wachovia

You knew this was coming the moment that Citigroup claimed that that it had exclusivity to deal with Wachovia once it was announced that Wells Fargo ... later, Wells Fargo said it was buying all of Wachovia - including its asset-management business [more...]

Date: 2008-10-05 10:55:00

Time To Tell The Truth About Israel …Without Fear Of The Mind Police

Time To Tell The Truth About Israel …Without Fear Of The Mind PoliceThe Thought Censors Don’t Like It? ToughTime To Tell The Truth About Israel ...Without Fear Of The Mind Police r242898747So, yet again, the people of the virtual-concentration camp, known officially as ‘Gaza’, are being bombarded from the sky by the bully-boys of Tel Aviv [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:38:00

How to keep money secure Online?

1. Technical Analysis Charts and Tips For Small Investors: Nifty 2800 levels hold the key to stock market movement ... nameShares QtyShares as % of Total No. of Shares1         Aberdeen Asset Managers Ltd [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:36:24

Israel Out at Vantage, Stodel In

Let's see. Paramount Vantage started out by acquiring An Inconvenient Truth, and went on to foster such releases as Babel, ... labels --Vantage, WIP and Picturehouse and Tartan--have left the field to the victors. The press [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 22:43:03

A Sad Day At Fox Interactive - No More Free Lunches

Don’t expect big layoffs at MySpace parent company Fox Interactive Media any time soon ... : · MySpace launched MySpace Music — a groundbreaking joint venture with major and independent music labels [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 06:01:07

Season 5 Hangman Game Posted by DarkUFO at 16:49 (Comments: 207) Labels: Polls

Seeing that ABC have spoilt our fun with the Photo Challenge (bah humbug to them all!) ... that grammar may not be my sources no.1 asset :)So here is the clue and seeing as I'm feeling festive [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 16:49:00

The iPosture

Posted on 8.1.09 comments (3) Labels: GadgetsI have terrible posture. I have for most of my life ... from my hunchback stance. I think that the iPosture would be a great asset for anyone who struggles [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 13:20:00

Nasdaq Market Wrap 29 Dec

GILD is the only stock trading above the 3 moving averages (20, 50, 100) ... ) the asset closes in the opposite direction. I have calculated the probability using the past 1000 ... Radio Inc (SIRI), Tellabs Inc (TLAB), VeriSign Inc (VRSN), Yahoo (YHOO)Labels: gild, market wrap [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 23:40:00

Highlights of the J.P. Morgan-WaMu Analyst Conference Call

Hurried, last-minute conference calls are becoming something like performance art these days ... of what Thomson StreetEvents trillingly labels the “J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Acquires the Deposits [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 14:41:19

Tips for Packing for a Move, Inexpensively

Tips for Packing for a Move, Inexpensively Posted by Jason Gerhard under For Buyers, For Realty Professionals, For Sellers, ... labels on each box. For instance, write “kitchen” on the box of dishes and “living room” on the box [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:09:04

Nasdaq Market Wrap - 5 Jan 2009

Support at 1150 for the emini nasdaq (@nq). The Index is testing the resistance at 1250. Many are betting on a failed breakout ... that the next day tomorrow) the asset closes in the opposite direction. I have calculated [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 01:57:00

A Simple Success Strategy For Women Entrepreneurs

By Meredith Liepelt As a savvy business owner, you are aware that your knowledge is your biggest asset ... that your knowledge is your biggest asset. But if you are spending your time on administrative activities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 20:03:34

Go To Hell

ITV do bad sci-fi. This wasn't always the case ... an asset to its full potential. They lumber Glenister with a "rilly stoopid" American accent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 16:22:01

Dandelion Salad by Petrino DiLeo http://socialistworker ... of leveraged lending that is so hard to understand,” Bill Gross, head of the Pimco asset management [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 22:09:19

DJIA - Market Wrap 7 Jan 09

9000 is proving to be a tough resistance. In the figure you can the Dow emini ... and what is the probability that the next day tomorrow) the asset closes in the opposite direction [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 03:34:00

Fixed Asset Tags

Worlds Best Asset Tags and Asset Labels like Metal Asset Tags, Bar Code Asset Label, Asset Inventory Label, Fixed Asset Tags and Asset Id Tags at Discounted Prices. Customize your own Asset Id Tags with our free guide to Asset Tags! read more [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 11:23:38

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