Residential Real Estate Valuation
March 5, 2010
How to Successfully Rescue Residential Real Estate | seekingalpha.com
Residential Real Estate Valuation is priced by mark-2-market with a fundamental basis of supply, demand, need and inflation above cost by physiological trends similar to most other markets.
Big government is the problem... Thanks Ronnie!
February 23, 2010
Obama’s big-government proposal attempts to do too much, too fast. | blogs.usatoday.com
Two wonderful people which have served our great government for many decades, and that I have had the great opportunity to work with and admire are Ronald Regan and Orrin Hatch.Both Ron and Orrin believe in small government - just do your own comparisons, between private operations and government.
January 28, 2010
Senate Confirms Bernanke for Second Term as Fed Chief | www.foxnews.com
I cannot think of anything that would have deterred the Senate from confirming Mr. Bernanke.Fortunately for everyone interested in financial stability, residing on this spinning rock called Earth, we have not gone off our axis.
January 28, 2010
Home Prices: First Drop in Seven Months | money.cnn.com
When seasonally adjusted, the figures from the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index do not appear too bad. The numbers, however, do not reflect the shadow inventories of lenders who are simply not foreclosing because of backed-up REO departments, moratoriums, postponement-oriented loan modifications, etc. In addition to said inventories, do not forget the portfolios of Alt-A loans that are only now starting to go delinquent, namely the Pay-Option ARM's.
Scotiabank: Canada's Most "International" Bank Increases Investment In China
December 30, 2009
Scotiabank boosts stake in China | www.theglobeandmail.com
Scotiabank has increased there stake in Xi'an City Commercial Bank to 14.8% (with an announced intent to take that to the maximum allowable stake of 20% under current Chinese regulations).This announcement reflects Scotiabank's continued commitment to expanding internationally via both investment and operations at opportune times in regions the Bank believes offer strong fundamentals with long-term growth potential.
Cascade Bancorp (CACB) Risk v Reward Cascades Towards Risk
December 28, 2009
Cascade Bancorp (CACB) said it planned to withdraw a stock offering | online.wsj.com
With the pending recovery leaning on the growth of various industries including Community Banking; one such bank [Cascade Bancorp (CACB)] has not provided investors positive reasons to assume the risk of accumulating its holding company's shares.
2nd Generation Family Business Continuity Challenged
December 26, 2009
Small-business owners pass on entreprenurial spirit to family | www.usatoday.com
Past experience has proved if you had a family member who started a business, you are more likely to become an entrepreneur than someone who didn't.I suspect this tenet will be challenged going forward.
The UK's retail banking industry, a great opportunity to follow Banco Santander
November 28, 2009
Santander launches 'fee-free' bank account | www.guardian.co.uk
The US retail customers and government has had enough of excessive banking fees, and similarly the UK's retail banking industry, a great opportunity to follow Banco Santander's lead.
Financial Armageddon off the table; now what?
November 19, 2009
Goldman Sachs launches $500M small-business venture | www.njbiz.com
Since we all seem to agree that financial Armageddon is off the table, and multiple iterations of TRILLIONS of dollars of current US taxpayer capital & debt has flooded the economy, we all seem to also agree the future impact of this indebtedness is unknown.We also seem to agree that US small business can take us forward and create more opportunity and jobs.
October 7, 2009
Climate Change: How to Invest for the Possibility | seekingalpha.com
The social awareness of climate change presents an opportunity to capitalize on firms providing net benefits to the global carbon footprint.
E-Insurance: When will the insurance industry adopt modern communication tools?
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PayPal can thrive as a standalone company
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