U.S. property recovery to start by spring: Zell

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• 'Ardi' sheds new light on human origins

  Thu Oct 1, 2009
  • Another take on this article: We can locate, identify, and date finds back millions of years. The Bigfoot-Sasquatch-Yeti cottage industry manages to get a couple shows a week on cable without a single bone.

• Cutler forfeits $100K bonus, goes into exclusion

  Tue Mar 31, 2009
  • He's hiding in "exclusion"? Most people hide in "seclusion". Where is "exclusion"?

• Schools for extremists thrive in Pakistan

  Mon Mar 23, 2009
  • Don't believe everything in this article. funding for the madrassas doesn't come from pakis. look to saudi arabia. they have the money. and sthe fundamentalist religion that the madrassas teach.

• Financial crisis hits Irish middle class

  Sat Mar 7, 2009
  • No, we're not suffering more than anyone else. Europe is is much more trouble. Banks in western Europe have lent billions to eastern European countries and businesses. Some of those still-shaky former communist countries are going to default on their sovereign debt.

• Pending home sales drop to new low in Jan.

  Tue Mar 3, 2009
  • Somethin Fishy, welcome to the new reality. Credit, leverage and risk are the new financial four-letter words. During the Great Depression our parents and grandparents learned that lesson well. And we all forgot.

• Stocks shed gains after sentiment data

  Tue Jan 27, 2009
  • A good read is "the Economist" this week. Defaulting countries are coming, way beyond Iceland. Combine our problems with Europe's and what happens? Does Western Civilization accept China's conditions for a bailout? Good time for Gold........

• Understanding the banking 'stress tests'

  Thu Feb 26, 2009
  • I'll be damned if I can see how a bank stress test can identify a 'liar loan'. That 'liar loan' was pooled, tranched, morphed into first a MBS and then into a CDO. The 'liar loan' is a tiny piece of that CDO. Maybe those loans come with big red flags attached, but I doubt it.

• Polar experts issue melting ice warning

  Wed Feb 25, 2009
  • we still have global warming debaters. What a waste. The only relevant question is how much evidence it will take to convince the doubters.