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In response to pressure from the National Retail Federation, Visa has agreed to reduce the amount of personal data they store in merchant systems. Retailers typically store credit card information in their systems to avoid having to repeat the process of inputting ...
Michael Mandel, former chief economist for BusinessWeek, is now writing on his own blog. When I was out in Kansas City at the Kauffman Foundation's Economic Bloggers Forum, Mish Shedlock of the blog Global Economic Trend Analysis made a persuasive case that ...
Not long ago, as attention centered on the Senate Finance Committee's moderate health- care reform bill, pundits dismissed the idea of a publicly run insurance program to compete with private insurers as all but dead. Now, as Senate leaders are close to ...
The Stat 1.3%Decline in U.S. personal income for the month of June, the biggest monthly decline since January 2005.Data: Bureau of Economic Analysis Copyright 2009 BusinessWeek
How Real Is the Market Rally? Two Views With the Dow edging close to 9000, the S& Robert Zagunis, chairman of the investment committee at Jensen Investment Management in Lake Oswego, Ore., and Abby Joseph Cohen, senior investment strategist at Goldman Sachs ...
Where I grew up, it's in bad taste to talk about your personal finances. But with the financial woes of governments, companies, and ordinary people making headlines just about everywhere you look these days, it's about time we had an honest discussion ...
AIG'S FORAY INTO DEATH BONDS American International Group, the insurer that's fighting for its life, may be the first major financial firm to sell a " But AIG recently packaged policies into a bond worth $2 billion, the largest investment backed by ...
TALF: SIGNS OF LIFE The third month may prove the charm for the Fed's bid to awaken consumer debt markets. On May 5 investors sought $10.6 billion in subsidized loans to buy securitized consumer debt, a nice jump from $4.7 billion in ...
Finally, there might be some good news for struggling homeowners. Thousands of mortgage loans that were supposed to reset at a higher rate this spring won't be changing, putting off the grim threat of foreclosure or bankruptcy for many Americans by as ...
We recently swore in a new President. One of the central planks in Barack Obama's platform was tackling the mess that is the medical care and medical insurance system in the U.S. Let's all weigh in on that work, and help get ...
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