2 month ago
Linkorama : Mapping out your access to the real credit system - "The work we all have to do now is to chart this out for ourselves. Each of us has such a world. Each organization has such a world. By charting it out, we will start to see what we have to do and who we have to know to bring back the power of this s
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nelson : Market rate securities problems - Wall Street investment banks mislead their customers, again
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - Krugman: The bottom line is that policy makers left the financial industry free to innovate — and what it did was to innovate itself, and the rest of us, into a big, nasty mess.
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16 month ago
nelson : Mortgage lending problems - Good explanation of the current mess of mortgage problems; too much financial engineering
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28 month ago
plasticbag : Monopoly is moving towards using Debit cards rather than multicoloured cash - I wonder how many years we are away from a cashless Monopoly board, and whether we'll get there before we do so in the real world...
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Prosper Launches - Social Lending - A micro credit market for the developed world
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41 month ago
deusx : Wired subscriber gets a jolt - '"It's probably something we shouldn't have done," Timko said of using the collection agency to pressure readers. "It's not something we want to continue. "'
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