Housing "crisis" upside: Market is becoming more affordable Asbury Park Press | Lewis Carroll, call your office. Or, better still, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" should call Washington, where the government's determination to solve the housing "crisis" produced this lead paragraph in a recent New York Times story: "Federal agencies are intensifying a crimina...
BSP to relax banks' ID requirements The Manila Times | THE Bangko Sental ng Pilipinas (BSP) is set to compel banks to require one identification card for banking transactions. | BSP Deputy Governor Nestor A. Espenilla Jr. said the central bank will release the amended circular on the list of ID requirements. | Espenilla said the Monetary Board will re...
Nintendo wants your Mom to get Wii-Fit Canada Dot Com | Hollie Shaw, Financial Post Published: Thursday, May 15, 2008 | Change font size | Story tools presented by try{ var arr_da = document.getElementById('ad-leaderboard').getElementsByTagName('script'); for(var i in arr_da){ if(typeof(arr_da[i].src...
Some IRS tax rebate checks going to wrong accounts USA Today Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — About 1,500 tax rebate checks sent out by the IRS this month were wired to the bank accounts of people who already received their payments or others who were not e...
Nordstrom Q1 net income falls Business Journal > Puget Sound area companies relate corporate social responsibility directly to the bottom line [Seattle] April same-store sales up at Costco, down at Nordstrom [Seattle] Tommy Bahama buys Hong Kong unit [Seattle] | First-quarter net income fell at N...
Democrats Position For War Funding Approval Common Dreams | WASHINGTON - The House kicked off a partisan debate Thursday on a Democratic plan to sharply boost education benefits for Iraq-Afghanistan veterans as the price for approving President Bush's long-stalled request for war funding. | People whose une...
IRS: Some stimulus checks sent to wrong accounts Orlando Sentinel NEW YORK - Through the wonders of modern technology, some of those federal economic stimulus checks are being deposited directly into recipients' bank accounts. | But some are not and are instead winding up in the bank accounts of complete strangers....
Tenderloin court funding locked up The Examiner SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - Mayor Gavin Newsom’s plan to put a new kind of court in the crime- and drug-plagued Tenderloin neighborhood is in jeopardy after a Board of Supervisors committee Wednesday refused to approve a $500,000 allocation for the...
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Egypt's economy soars; so does misery USA Today Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | By David J. Lynch, USA TODAY CAIRO — Four years into a robust economic expansion, this country has shaken off its his...
Starbucks paid more for coffee in 2007 Seattle Times | Starbucks paid an average price of $1.43 a pound for coffee in fiscal 2007, according to its corporate social responsibility report released today. | That's a penny higher than t...
Indian economy can withstand potential shocks: Moody's The Times Of India | NEW DELHI: Indian economy's external fundamentals are strong enough to withstand a wide range of potential shocks and support its foreign currency sovereign and local currency bo...
Housing "crisis" upside: Market is becoming more affordable Asbury Park Press | Lewis Carroll, call your office. Or, better still, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" should call Washington, where the government's determination to solve the housing "crisis" produced this lead paragraph in a recent New York Times s...
U.S. consumers out there spending tax-rebate cheques Canada Dot Com | 'It feels like a bonus for them,' retailer says | Janet Whitman, Financial Post, With Files From Reuters Published: Thursday, May 15, 2008 | Change font size | Story tools presented by try{ var str_da_src = document.getElementById('ad-leaderboar...
State news of national interest International Herald Tribune | EAST | ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The state's 25,000 registered sex offenders are getting letters telling them to disclose their Internet screen names. It's an effort to keep offenders from secretly contacting juveniles on social networking Web sites. The...
