The Polifinancial Times http://www.polifinance.com Debating the current and future financial system Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:51:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 ThePolifinancialTimeshttp://feedburner.google.com Obama Mortgage Program Struggles as More Than 40 Percent Drop Out http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePolifinancialTimes/~3/Tx-jp_27XAE/365153 http://www.moneynews.com/FinanceNews/US-Mortgage-Aid/2010/07/20/id/365153#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:04:03 +0000 PFT Top News http://www.polifinance.com/?p=1555 More than 40 percent of homeowners seeking help from the Obama administration’s flagship effort to rescue those at risk of foreclosure have dropped out of the program. The latest report on the program suggests foreclosures could rise in the second half of the year and weaken an ailing housing market.

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]]> http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/20/news/economy/unemployment_benefits/feed/ 0 http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/20/news/economy/unemployment_benefits/ D.C. Elites and ‘Real Americans’ Are More Similar Than You’d Think http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePolifinancialTimes/~3/8mHIiMGY9zI/dc-elites-real-americans-politico-poll http://www.tnr.com/blog/william-galston/76406/dc-elites-real-americans-politico-poll#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:45:16 +0000 PFT Top News http://www.polifinance.com/?p=1547 A recent Politico poll has opened up “D.C. elites” to yet another round of criticism. They’re so unlike normal Americans, you see. Forty-nine percent of them think the country is heading in the right direction (versus 27 percent of the general population)

]]> http://www.tnr.com/blog/william-galston/76406/dc-elites-real-americans-politico-poll/feed/ 0 http://www.tnr.com/blog/william-galston/76406/dc-elites-real-americans-politico-poll Housing Starts in U.S. Slide More Than Forecast as Credit Ends http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePolifinancialTimes/~3/u3E9yF72AZA/housing-starts-in-u-s-slide-more-than-forecast-as-credit-ends.html http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-20/housing-starts-in-u-s-slide-more-than-forecast-as-credit-ends.html#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:35:56 +0000 PFT Top News http://www.polifinance.com/?p=1543 Housing starts fell in June to the lowest level in eight months after the expiration of a U.S. government tax incentive caused sales to slump.

]]> http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-20/housing-starts-in-u-s-slide-more-than-forecast-as-credit-ends.html/feed/ 0 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-20/housing-starts-in-u-s-slide-more-than-forecast-as-credit-ends.html Why Small Banks Are Big Losers in Bailout http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePolifinancialTimes/~3/Nh7-nJaQ6eM/ http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/07/14/small-banks-are-big-losers-in-taxpayer-bailout/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:17:52 +0000 PFT Top News http://www.polifinance.com/?p=1455 The nation’s small banks, as the conventional wisdom has it, were victims of a financial crisis brought on by greed and excess on Wall Street, but the small bank-TARP recipients that are likely to generate big taxpayer losses.

]]> http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/07/14/small-banks-are-big-losers-in-taxpayer-bailout/feed/ 0 http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/07/14/small-banks-are-big-losers-in-taxpayer-bailout/ Reform Bill: Geithner to Inherit Sweeping Influence http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePolifinancialTimes/~3/PvUnnd4taB4/AR2010071603732.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071603732.html#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:12:53 +0000 PFT Top News http://www.polifinance.com/?p=1451 The dramatic expansion of financial regulation approved by Congress this week bears the stamp of no one more than Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and gives him vast powers to determine the final form of the new rules.

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]]> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66F45220100716?type=politicsNews/feed/ 0 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66F45220100716?type=politicsNews Do conservatives care about the deficit? Do Democrats? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePolifinancialTimes/~3/20ddtHhIgD4/do_conservatives_care_about_th.html http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/07/do_conservatives_care_about_th.html#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:50:35 +0000 PFT Top News http://www.polifinance.com/?p=1442 Matt Yglesias asks the question and assembles some evidence. The two modern conservative presidents, George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, “both presided over massive increases in both present and projected deficits.”

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]]> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66F4FP20100716/feed/ 0 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66F4FP20100716 What’s in Financial Reform Bill? Most Americans Don’t Know http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThePolifinancialTimes/~3/zKyoo0c5jeI/ http://ThebroadestoverhaulofUSfinancialrulessincetheGreatDepressionwonfinalapprovalintheSenateonThursday.Yetover70%ofAmericansknownothingaboutthelegislation.#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:43:53 +0000 PFT Top News http://www.polifinance.com/?p=1426 The broadest overhaul of US financial rules since the Great Depression won final approval in the Senate on Thursday. Yet over 70% of Americans know nothing about the legislation.

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