Posts Tagged ‘their’

Quotable
“I might at this point interject a little tidbit that typifies our government and Congress. The Pythagorean theorem consists of 24 words. Archimedes’ Principle is 67 words and the US government regulations for The Sale of Cabbage consists of 26,911 words!!”
Adrian Krieg
Commentary & Analysis
The Fed: their toolbox is bigger than yours.
Perhaps the only [...]
Quotable
“Most of us would assume that a contracting trade deficit is expansionary for the US economy and therefore a good thing. In that case fewer purchases of US dollar assets by the PBoC and other foreigners must also be a good thing because one is simply the obverse of the other.
“But it’s not necessarily a [...]
For years , consumers have been able to search Google for just about anything—except, for the most part, the regulatory histories of financial advisers.
That is changing. On Tuesday, BrightScope.com, an independent rater of 401(k) plans, launched a new directory called “BrightScope Advisor Pages” that purports to index for search engines the backgrounds of nearly 450,000 [...]
A growing number of mutual-fund companies are finding their digital voices.
Though they were initially slow to join the social-media party, these firms increasingly are using Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to build brand loyalty, educate investors and help with customer service.
“It’s an initial attempt to plug into what’s happening in society and technology,” says James McGovern, [...]
Sort of old news, considering the Irish government has since nationalized Allied Irish and Ireland itself has been bailed out by the EU/IMF but borrowing by Irish banks grew 13.7% in the month of November.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Voters going to the polls Tuesday will be at the center of a high-stakes tug-of-war between lawmakers and anti-tax advocates.
More than a quarter of the 160 initiatives on the ballots deal with state tax hikes, debt levels and other revenue issues. In total, there are 44 measures that could drastically change [...]
