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Plan to Take Action in 2009

Suze Orman | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business

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Suze Orman

I am sorry to say that it is foolish to think that a stimulus package will be an insta-cure. I think it is wiser to to keep in mind that it is going to take years to make this all right.

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Wall Street rebounds sharply after big drop

AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 12.02.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — In a session that showed more indecision than conviction, the stock market rebounded Tuesday from the previous day's massive decline....

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Stocks Make Moderate Gains At Shortened Session

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 11.28.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Wall Street climbed again Friday, wrapping up its biggest five-day rally in more than 75 years, even as investors digested signs of a...

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Dow up 494 as Obama prepares to name treasury boss

AP | TIM PARADIS and SARA LEPRO | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Wall Street put a stop to a terrifying decline and stormed higher Friday as President-elect Barack Obama appeared ready to tap the ch...

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Bush Signs Extension For Jobless Benefits

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators will guarantee as much as $1.4 trillion in U.S. banks' debt in a bid to get the distressed financial system pump...

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Stocks stage huge rebound; Dow jumps 553 points

AP | MADLEN READ and JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Investors did an abrupt turnaround on Wall Street Thursday, muscling the Dow Jones industrial average up more than 550 points after d...

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Dow Plunges 400 Points

AP | SARA LEPRO | Posted 11.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Henry Paulson, Bailout, Stocks, Economy, Hank Paulson, Wall Street Crisis, Stocks Plunge, Dow Jones, Business News

NEW YORK — An increasingly despondent Wall Street fell for the third straight session Wednesday as investors absorbed another series of dismal c...

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'Chicago Tribune' Likely to Print 'Wall Street Journal'

Editor & Publisher | Jim Rosenberg | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK With printing and severance negotiations under way, when Dow Jones & Co. closes its Naperville, Ill., plant, the Chicago Tribune's Freedom Ce...

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Stocks advance to add to week's large gains

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — The stock market closed out a horrendous October, its worst month in 21 years, with a big advance Friday as more investors took chanc...

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The Next Great Depression Is Here... If We're Lucky

Keith Blanchard | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

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Keith Blanchard

Don't let anyone tell you to relax... that's how they walked us off the cliff in 1929. Embrace your fear. Fear makes you smart; fear makes you strong. It's the only proper mindset to face the coming storm.

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Out of Line: DOWn Again

Mort Gerberg | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

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Mort Gerberg

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Dow Nears 5 Year Low: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer October 23, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Blackberry, Economy, Streaming, Samsung, Storm, Low, Mediabytes, Movies, Dow Jones, Amazon, Imeem, Shelly Palmer, Profit, Netflix, Media News, Comcast, Rim, Docsis 3.0, Media News
Shelly Palmer

Yesterday the Dow Jones closed at 8519, near its five year low. The story did not make the front page of the New York Times nor the evening news. Fo...

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Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Erica Jong | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Dow Jones, Economy, Great Depression, George W. Bush, Business News
Erica Jong

Every time Bush and Bernanke speak the market tanks. Where is the ghost of FDR? Laughing. "I was called a traitor to my class" he says, giggling.

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It's Time for Paulson to Cut the Crap and Do His Job

Dean Baker | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business

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Dean Baker

Paulson's statements that the economy would collapse if Congress didn't act were not true, and obviously he didn't believe them, since it has now been a week and we still don't have even the outlines of his plans.

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We're Investment Bankers And We're Here To Help

Gregory Bedrosian | Posted 10.07.2008 | Business

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Gregory Bedrosian

Some advice for our fellow taxpayers in the great financial bail-out.

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The Bailout Bill Passes Congress, President Signs the Legislation, and the World Is Saved. Not.

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 10.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Metastable Oil Prices and Stock Markets, Simple Solutions, Economy, Tokyo Stock Exchanges, Congress, World-Wide, Mccain, Obama, Paris, German, Republican, Europe Recession, Nymex, Dow Jones, Bailout, Free Market, China, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

We saw it when Reagan became president in the early '80s and a decade ago when the price of oil (in real dollars) hit an all-time low. Here we go, back to the past again. That's why it's ominous.

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Rearranging The Deckchairs

Tom Gregory | Posted 10.06.2008 | Business

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Tom Gregory

It is ironic that real estate, the cause of the economic collapse, may eventually be the unintended beneficiary of our steep downturn.

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The Ups and Downs of the Stock Market: a Personal Perspective

Doug Bremner | Posted 09.30.2008 | Living

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Doug Bremner

Why not interpret the stock market from the point of view of my personal life? Yes, me. Doug Bremner. I mean why not? Maybe the events of my life have an influence on the stock market.

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Dow plummets record 777 as financial rescue fails

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 09.29.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — The failure of the bailout package in Congress literally dropped jaws on Wall Street and triggered a historic selloff _ including a t...

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Truth and Consequences

Murray Fromson | Posted 09.23.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Dow Jones, Bailout, Wall Street, Economy, Molly Ivins, Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, Barack Obama, Investors, Media News
Murray Fromson

At a time when the U.S. economy seemed to be going into the tank, the question no one seemed to be asking the past two weeks was what about the press....

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Wall Street Hands Massive Gift to Obama. The Question is, What Will He Do With It?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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Andy Ostroy

There's been a bloodbath on Wall Street this week, with the Dow Jones dropping 7% to a new three-year low, erasing over $1-trillion in U.S. stock val...

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Dow Plunges 240 Points

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 08.25.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Stocks sank in light trading Monday as worries about American International Group Inc. touched off broader concerns that the deterior...

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Wall Street Tanks On Weak GDP, Jobless Data

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Wall Street sank Thursday, after weak readings on economic growth and the job market touched off renewed concerns about the financial...

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Dow Falls Almost 240 Points

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Wall Street again surrendered to investors' anxiety about the financial sector Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down 240 poi...

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Dow Enters Bear Market, Oil Hits New Record

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Wall Street resumed its sell-off Wednesday after oil hit a new record and a bearish analyst report renewed concerns that General Moto...

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