http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi Hear My Thunder - Where Your Thunder Can Be Heard - Political, historical, eductional - Latest News --T::-05:00 Hear My Thunder - Where Your Thunder Can Be Heard - Political, historical, eductional http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=1889 Retail, office, and industrial real estate are all suffering to various degrees. <br> <br>Let's take a look at all three, courtesy of CoStar, starting with Rapidly Falling Prices Changing Dynamics of Office Leasing, ... Money_Banking Showcase 2009-08-04T14:51:59-05:00 http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=1888 WASHINGTON - The recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress are piling a major expansion of health care and other programs on the nation's plate and struggling to find money to pay the ... Government Showcase 2009-08-04T01:11:05-05:00 http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=1887 Reading about the first Quarterly Bloomberg Global Poll of investors, which found that almost 75 percent of those surveyed give Ben Bernanke favorable marks for his actions as chairman of the Fed during the current financial and economic crisis, my ... Money_Banking Showcase 2009-08-03T12:51:48-05:00 http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=1886 I have to wonder. <br> <br>First, we have Corus, which reported a negative Tier 1 Ratio.  That is, they are formally "in the hole" in terms of assets .vs. liabilities.  This is never supposed to happen - but it did, "Prompt ... Government Showcase 2009-08-02T11:10:28-05:00 http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=1885 About 1 in 10 Californians with a home loan is now in default, and there's growing evidence that the mortgage meltdown is spreading to commercial real estate. <br> <br>The home mortgage delinquency rate -- the percentage of borrowers who have missed ... Money_Banking Showcase 2009-08-01T13:14:31-05:00 http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=1884 GDP came out this morning and there's only one word for it: Ugly. <br> <br>    Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- decreased at an annual rate of 1.0 ... Money_Banking Showcase 2009-07-31T16:10:20-05:00 http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=1883 From Yahoo News: <br> <br>    On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding ... Government Showcase 2009-07-31T15:39:06-05:00 http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=1882 With $1 billion already wasted Lawmakers Vote on $2 Billion More to Replenish 'Clunkers' Program. <br> <br>    The U.S. House opened debate on an emergency measure to add as much as $2 billion to the "cash for clunkers" program after a burst ... Government Showcase 2009-07-31T15:26:53-05:00 http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=1881 "Initial Claims" were 584,000 today, scream the headlines, and the pumpers all claim this is "better than expected" when looking at continuing claims, which declined slightly to 6.416 million on a 4-week rolling ... Money_Banking Showcase 2009-07-30T10:53:06-05:00 http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=1880 We now have the diametrical opposite of the famous "Peter Schiff Was Right" video (a compilation of 2006 and 2007 clips in which Schiff, a financial expert who subscribes to Austrian economics, predicted the deep recession that would ... Money_Banking Showcase 2009-07-29T22:07:02-05:00