25 Simple Ways to Save ( Energy and Money ) The average household will spend $6,400 on utility bills and at the gas pump this year—$1,700 more than just two years ago, according to the Alliance to Save Energy . But you’re far from powerless. What the AIG Bailout Means for You My husband and I hold life insurance policies with American
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Clean Up Housing FirstFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-09-15 19:47:17
You see our economy is sick. And needs some help for cleaning up - the mess.
Lehman files bankruptcy. Merrill Lynch sold to Bank of America. And AIG on the brink . (By the way, have you check your AIG insurance yet? uhm.. your car, homeowner, life).
End of Wall Street ?
Now. Who’s next? Via MSNBC . One critical question remains: How many more banks face the ultimate penalty? The answer depends on two huge unknowns.
First:
When will home prices stop fallin...
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Post Date: 2008-09-15 17:01:18
DC housing sales pace was definitely slower this year than a year ago. Sales of home (all types) in the District declined 23.74% from 657 units to 501 while the ave. sales price increased by 7.81% from $516,708 to $557,079. On the other hand, its median price saw no change at all - it stays flat at $395,000. It is interesting to see how the ave. list price of solds indicator actually went up 11.65% from $540,391 to $603,373. For one thing, home prices in DC is higher on a...
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Post Date: 2008-09-14 20:04:56
Sounds like it (after Fan and Fred bailout). A developing story, via NYT . Lehman will seek to place its parent company, Lehman Brothers Holdings,
into bankruptcy protection, as its subsidiaries remain solvent while
the parent firm liquidates, these people said. A consortium of banks
will provide a financial backstop to help provide an orderly winding
down of the 158-year-old investment bank. And the Federal Reserve has
agreed to accept lower-quality assets in return for loans from ...
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Post Date: 2008-09-14 19:05:45
image: Slate
> > From over the weekend. Another subprime casualty: Lehman (it’s currently on life support). AIG is also in trouble .
Communities Plan for a Low-Energy Future A year ago, Pat Proulx-Lough felt so overwhelmed by reports about
climate change that she couldn’t even listen to the news. “My husband
was finishing a dissertation on water resources, and I became hopeless
and fearful,” says Ms. Proulx-Lough, a therapist in Portland, Maine.
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