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  • Tories blame PM for the 'age of irresponsibility' - Guardian Unlimited

    George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, will seek to pin most of the blame for the turmoil in the markets on Gordon Brown today, accusing him of presiding over the Treasury for 10 years "while the regulation failed, the debt soared and no one called ...
    2008-09-28 05:26:00
  • Stephen King: In Mexico, they've seen it all before. And there are ... - The Independent

    On a business trip to Mexico last week, I was talking to some local economists and financial experts. They know a thing or two about financial crises. Mexico, after all, has had more than its fair share of problems over the last 30 years, what with ...
    2008-09-28 05:19:00
  • RBI governor to meet bank chiefs this week - TradingMarkets.com

    Experts said the meeting will largely discuss price and liquidity management issues ahead of the October 24 review of the monetary and credit policy. RBI has launched a monetary attack on inflation by raising key interest and reserve rates and ...
    2008-09-28 08:18:00
  • Financial Crisis Shock Waves Reach Municipalities - BusinessWeek

    It's not just on Wall Street where dubious financial decisions are creating casualties. Municipalities, many of which made enormous financial promises when the economy was strong, are now confronting heavy fiscal burdens. When the last major bank ...
    2008-09-28 10:55:00
  • State Bank holds prime rate at 14% - Viet Name News

    HA NOI — The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) yesterday decided to keep the prime interest rate unchanged at 14 per cent per year for October, in line with the Government’s tightened monetary policy. The unchanged prime rate should stabilise the ...
    2008-09-26 05:57:00
  • Prime Minister Assures Country That Financial Structure Is Sound - The Ledger

    Prime Minister Stephen Harper is assuring Canadians rattled by U.S. financial woes that all is still well in the north as he campaigns for re-election next month. Anxiety is growing over how Canada will fare in the wake of what might become a ...
    2008-09-26 05:57:00
  • Canada's Harper Joins G-7 Chorus, Pins Crisis on U.S. (Update1) - Bloomberg

    Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said U.S. policies helped create the crisis in financial markets, adding to criticism from other Group of Seven leaders and saying there's little his government can do to help. Poor ...
    2008-09-28 11:35:00
  • Laban: Tokelau Hutt Valley Youth Strategy (Scoop.co.nz)

    Fakatulou atu kite mamalu o Tokelau kua fakatahi mai ite aho nei. Fakaalofa lahi atu, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Ni sa bula vinaka, Namaste, Kia orana, Ia Orana, Gud de tru olgeta, Taloha ni, Talofa, Kia ora tatou and Warm Pacific Greetings to you all this morning.
    2008-09-28 08:45:42
  • The City Economy: Facing the Nation's Woes (Gotham Gazette)

    If there were any doubts about the severity of the nation's economic ills, the financial panic engulfing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac quickly dispelled them last week.
    2008-09-28 09:19:27
  • Benchmark to hover above 1,000 pts: Dealers (The New Sabah Times)

    SHARE PRICES on Bursa Malaysia are expected to be mixed this week amid the shorter trading week due to the Hari Raya celebrations, said dealers. Bursa will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday.
    2008-09-28 09:33:14
  • As world tumbles, local exchange stays up (Vietnam Net)

    VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese stock market seemed the only in Asia to have avoided a downturn last week after the hesitant implementation of the US Government's US$700-billion bailout and the bankruptcy of its biggest lending bank Washington Mutual.
    2008-09-28 09:41:45
  • Trouble in Banktopia: The financial system is blowing up (Online Journal)

    The financial system is blowing up. Don’t listen to the experts; just look at the numbers.
    2008-09-28 10:06:48
  • Financial Crisis Shock Waves Reach Municipalities (BusinessWeek)


    2008-09-28 10:27:39
  • Aso, Brown Efforts to Save Themselves May Lend Bush a Hand Too (Bloomberg)

    Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Embattled political leaders in Tokyo and London may end up coming to the aid of President George W. Bush in containing the economic fallout from the credit crisis as political self-preservation trumps nationalism.
    2008-09-28 10:41:42
  • Dave Holland: Consistently Exceptional (All About Jazz)

    It's been a long time since Dave Holland's small hands strummed a ukulele at about the age of five, an endeavor that eventually led him to the guitar and entry in a fledgling band as a teenager around his Wolverhampton, England, home.
    2008-09-28 11:20:53