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01/04
Preview 2005: Make My Day,
and I’ll Pay You Back Tomorrow Fall Street via Fiends Super Bear Page / Brady Willett
End
game is long away for the Fed CBS Marketwatch / Dr. Irwin Kellner
Has
Greenspan Over-Pumped the Real Estate Bubble? ChronWatch via Fiends Super
Bear Page / Noel Sheppard
Don’t
Bet Against America National Review / Larry Kudlow
Why Should the Dollar Rally?
Speculative Investor via Safehaven / Steve Saville
Deflation: Great for Gold
Texas Hedge Fund Report via Safehaven
/ T. Stein / S. McIntyre
A Rally for the Buck?
Institutional Advisors via Safehaven / Bob Hoye
Germany
nears 1990 jobless level BBC News
Social Security
and Unsecured Debt Federal Reserve Bank of Boston / Paul Willen
Weak
Dollar May Boost U.S. Companies' Pricing Power Reuters / Reshma Kapadia
I Believe...
Daily Pfennig via Daily Reckoning /
Chuck Butler
Steel
Costs May Hit Car Prices Ananova News
Slow
season prompts airlines to offer cut-rate fares Ft. Meyers News Press /
Anne Mitchell
Stocks
are not cheap CBS Marketwatch / Mark Hulbert
Fannie
Mae chooses Deloitte & Touche AP via Beaufort Gazette
Rockefeller
Leverages Name in Markets Reuters / Javier E. David
Fed
split on inflation at Dec. meeting CBS Marketwatch / Gregory Robb
U.S.
mortgage rates unchanged Tuesday – BestInfo Reuters
The Delights of
Debasement Rude Awakening via Daily Reckoning / Eric J. Fry
Irish reserve
fund avoids bonds in tactical move Investment and Pensions Europe
Illogically
low rates might linger Orange County Register / Jonathan Lansner
NY: Luxe Is In Flux NY
Post / Braden Keil
TN:
Expanding? Relocating? Nashville draws raves Tennessean / Richard Lawson
NY:
Some experts say the increase from $5.15 in '97 to $7.15 by 2007 may hurt
small businesses Newsday / Carrie Mason – Draffen
GM,
Ford sales down in 2004; Chrysler up AP via Seattle Times / John Porretto
The Stock Market’s Rally
Could Be Winding Down NY Post / John Crudele
Post-Christmas
retail sales jump 4.6% at U.S. stores Bloomberg via Washington Post /
Greg Wiles
Living
(and dying?) on doughnuts CNN / Aaron Smith
Social
Security benefits may change CNN
System
fails the Rotary 4-way test Dallas Morning News / Scott Burns
Bush
Soc. Sec. Plan to Allow Tax Diversion AP via Newsday / Leigh Strope
Treasuries
slide as Fed report implies rate rises FT / Jennifer Hughes, Charles
Batchelor and Mariko Sanchanta
Fed
Minutes Say Rate Too Low to Keep Inflation Stable (text & audio) Bloomberg / Craig Torres
FOMC
Minutes: Fed Officials Voice Concerns Dow Jones via Smartmoney.com /
Joseph Rebello and Campion Walsh
Fed:
Rates Too Low to Curb Inflation Reuters / Glenn Somerville
Fed
minutes reflect inflation concerns FT / Christopher Swann
All's
not well in survey of sick days Denver Post / Al Lewis
Crude Prices
Jump on Supply Concerns AP via Forbes
Relief
Slow in Coming for the Great Yield Drought Bloomberg / Chet Currier
Big Three automakers retain U.S.
positions MSNBC via 1st
Headlines
Shopping
Spree That Wasn't as Markdowns Hurt Retailers NY Times / Tracie Rozhon
CO: '04
foreclosures climb Denver Post / Christine Tatum
CO:
Mountain home sales sizzle in '04 Denver Post / Jason Blevins
CA:
Homes drive construction LA Daily News / Gregory J. Wilcox
Stopping
the Bum's Rush NY Times / Paul Krugman
Congressional
Zeal for Bush Goals Tempered by Deficit Bloomberg / Laura Litvan and Ryan
J. Donmoyer
U.S.
Treasuries on defensive before Fed minutes Reuters / Wayne Cole
Washington
& The World Forbes
More
Companies Increase Dividends LA Times / Tom Petruno
Homing
in on securities linked to house market Baltimore Sun / Jay Hancock
Bruce
is mouse that roars San Francisco Chronicle / Kathleen Pender
IL:
Wage rises; debate continues Chicago Tribune / Barbara Rose and John
Chase
MA:
Let's play hedge fund Boston Globe / Steven Syre
US
Treasuries cautious in countdown to Fed minutes Reuters
eSpeed
system change may hit revenues short-term Reuters
Krispy
Kreme: Too fat too fast Philadelphia Inquirer / Porus P. Cooper
Fresher
Fed minutes CNN / Kathleen Hays
The
Long Arm of the Dollar Washington Post / Paul Blustein
UK:
Brown pushes tsunami debt relief BBC News
Factory Orders
U.S. Census Bureau
Manufacturers
in US benefit from falling dollar FT / Christopher Swann
Some
Disasters Fuel Growth; Asian Tsunami Won't Bloomberg / Andy Mukherjee
Japanese
Bonds Gain After U.S. Report Spurs Concern Over Growth Bloomberg / Chris
Cooper
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01/05
Falling
gas prices expected to stay below $2 for weeks Washington Times / Brendan
Armbruster
Foreclosures grow as refinancing
increases MSNBC / Kevin Tibbles
The
Trouble With Fannie Mae Washington Post / Robert J. Samuelson
White
House Memo Says Benefit Cuts Needed for Social Security Bloomberg / Heidi
Przybyla
OH:
Improvement seen in Cincinnati real estate market Cincinnati Business
Courier
Tiff
over tab starts a brawl Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
FDIC State
Profiles - Winter 2004 FDIC
Can
Edward Jones keep taking money from mutual fund firms? St. Louis Post
Dispatch / David Nicklaus
Spread
widening likely temporary Reuters
Bonds
mostly unchanged AP via Beaufort Gazette
TIPS
Issuance, Trading Jumps Bondweek via Institutional Investor
0
for 3 in 2005 CNN
Consumer Spending Charges Back
Business Week via MSNBC / Amey Stone
Mergers
a cloud for silver lining News and Observer / Karen Rives and Jack Hagel
Inflation
settling in with improving economy AP via San Diego Union Tribune / Marc
Levy
The 7-Year
Slide Rude Awakening via Daily Reckoning / Tom Dyson
Little Black
Boxes Daily Pfennig via Daily
Reckoning / Chuck Butler
Dollar
rally peters out despite hawkish Fed FT / Steve Johnson
Colombia's
Peso Falls on Speculation Bank Will Sell Currency Bloomberg / Jennifer
Coogan
IMF
Sees Strong Vietnamese Economy In 2005 Dow Jones via Morning Star and Big
News Network
Fed
minutes ... don't freak out CNN / Kathleen Hays
Fed
Reserve Minutes Can Move Markets AP via Mercury News / Michael J.
Martinez
The hard
hat blues Fed Gazette / Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Help Wanted
Again Fed Gazette / Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Ready, set,
dance Fed Gazette / Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Track hiring
demand Fed Gazette / Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
The
Policy Challenge of Managing Success Pimco / Mohamed A. El-Erian
A
Guide to Global Inflation-Linked Bonds Pimco
The
Medicare Mess National Review / Bruce Bartlett
Delta's Fanfare
For The Businessman Forbes / Dan Ackman
Hourly pay
keeps falling Chicago Tribune via Houston Chronicle / Barbara Rose
Statement by IMF
Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato Ahead of Jakarta Meeting International
Monetary Fund
Pimco
Bets on TIPS, Bunds in 2005 Bloomberg / Shamim Adam
Wan
economy needs infusion of good jobs Baltimore Sun / Jay Hancock
December
job cuts top 100K CNN
CA:
Split decision on '05 housing Orange County Register / Hang Nguyen
NY:
Office vacancy rate declines Newsday / Alan J. Wax
What
privatization alone can't do CNN / Jeanne Sahadi
Social
Security Battle Likely LA Times / Ronald Brownstein
Circuit
City's Dec. Sales Disappointing AP via Mercury News
OfficeMax
Retail Chief Peterson Resigns AP via Mercury News
Bears,
let loose by Fed, chase the Santa Claus rally away Chicago Tribune / Bill
Barnhart
Are
we spent on buying yet? AP via Seattle Times / Rachel Beck
Canada:
2005 'going to feel a lot like last year,' Canada's big-bank economists say
CP via Financial Post / Gary Norris
US
Treasuries nurse wounds after Fed rate warning Reuters / Wayne Cole
Global
junk bond default rate falls in December Reuters
Crude Oil
Futures Fall Ahead of Report AP via Forbes
December
Non-Manufacturing ISM Report on business ISM
U.S.
mortgage applications fall, rates ease Reuters / Julie Haviv
Delta
takes off with cuts in domestic fares of up to 50 percent AP via South
Florida Sin Sentinel / Bernard McGee
For
Muni Voyeurs, `Full Value Per Capita' Is Key Bloomberg / Joe Mysak
UBS
Unseats Citigroup as Top Municipal Bond Underwriter in 2004 Bloomberg /
Eddie Baeb
U.S.
Treasuries May Fall as Fed Minutes Spur Inflation Concerns Bloomberg /
Shamim Adam
The
engines of Europe limp into ’05 IHT / Carter Dougherty
France
and Germany likely to miss growth targets Guardian / David Gow
UK:
Retailers suffer bleak Christmas sales Guardian / Jill Treanor
UK:
Three years of house-price woe Daily Mail via This Is London / Sean
Poulter
UK:
Home lending hits 10-year low This Is Money via This Is London / Michael
Clarke
Fed
Minutes Hold More for the Markets to Ponder Bloomberg / John M. Berry
Fed
Minutes Reveal More Worry About Inflation Threat Washington Post / Nell
Henderson
Holiday
Sales Don't Conform to Analysts' Angst Bloomberg / Caroline Baum
Dollar
Near Two-Week High as Fed May Accelerate Rate Increases Bloomberg / John
Brinsley
Just
a Singer in a Rock & Roll Band Pimco / Bill Gross
The future of homes
and housing Christian Science Monitor / Kim Campbell, Clayton Collins,
Marilyn Gardner, and Elizabeth Lund
The future of
retirement and the elderly Christian Science Monitor / Kim Campbell,
Clayton Collins, Marilyn Gardner, and Elizabeth Lund
The future of jobs
and employment Christian Science Monitor / Kim Campbell, Clayton Collins,
Marilyn Gardner, and Elizabeth Lund
The future of love
and marriage Christian Science Monitor / Kim Campbell, Clayton Collins,
Marilyn Gardner, and Elizabeth Lund
Deliver us from our
credit cards Christian Science Monitor / G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Hedge
Funds in Asia -- Mania or Mere Trend? Bloomberg / William Pesek
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01/06
Asian
success stories wary of China BBC News / Jonathan Kent
DVD
sales worth billions Long Beach Press Telegram / Greg Hernandez
What
privatization alone can't do CNN / Jeanne Sahadi
Hooray
for Delta's fare cut Dallas Morning News / Danielle DiMartino
Capital
Ideas: Unsightly Cash Buildup? CFO.com / Marie Leone
More
cars, not trucks, forecast to sell worldwide in '05 USA Today via 1st
Headlines / James R. Healey
Astral-Angst
Rude Awakening via Daily Reckoning / Eric J. Fry
U.S.
trade gap will reverse itself-Fed economist Reuters via Google News
The Fed's Muddled Minutes
Business Week via MSNBC / Rich Miller
Interest
rates likely to climb San Francisco Chronicle / Kathleen Pender
BondWorks Institutional
Advisors via Safehaven / Levente Mady
Steady
payroll growth expected CBS Marketwatch / Rex Nutting
U.S.
transportation index gains again UPI / Dan Haddix
U.S
jobs could disappoint Globe and Mail / Terry Weber
The "Flation"
Debate Safehaven / Dr. Manoj Pratim Samanta
Setting the
Trap Daily Pfennig via Daily
Reckoning / Chuck Butler
Canada:
Loonie drops half a cent CP via Toronto Star
Most affordable U.S. real
estate found in Ohio Inman News
Housing sector shows few signs of
slowing MSNBC via Newsmax / Martin
Wolk
Mortgage
rates start the year with a decline AP via USA Today
Real estate market to
slow in 2005 Inman News
Retail
money funds rise in latest week AP via Beaufort Gazette
Hedge
Funds Posted Modest Returns in 2004-Experts Reuters / Svea Herbst-Bayliss
Data
cast doubt on eurozone recovery FT / Ralph Atkins
Eurozone business,
consumer confidence weaken in December AFP via EU Business
UT: Construction paces
Utah's job growth Salt Lake Tribune / Jordan Burke
Looks
are everything for many as they age Pittsburgh Tribune Review / Jack
Markowitz
Army Reserve a
'broken force'? Christian Science Monitor / Tom Regan
Congress In Bonus Hunt At
Fannie Mae NY Post / Richard Wilner
Oil
prices shoot above $45 AP via Dallas Morning News
Unhappy
staff busting humps for new jobs Boston Herald / John Strahinich
Jobs Report Could Be Bad News For
Stock Investors NY Post / John Crudele
Doctoral
Thesis Says Rich People Spend More on Conspicuous Things NY Times / Alan
Krueger
Budget
deficit may hurt U.S. aid effort Washington Times / Jeffrey Sparshott
MA:
FDIC: High rates may hurt Mass. Boston Herald / Brett Arends
Bond
bubble, American-style Financial Express via Fiends Super Bear Page / Jack Crooks
KC
Fed chief upbeat about 2005 CBS Marketwatch / Gregory Robb
Fed
policymakers' recent comments Reuters
Fed's
red flag on inflation risks masks optimism Reuters / Glenn Somerville
Over-reacting
to the Fed warning? Reuters via CNN
The
route to real pensions reform The Economist
Trouble
and strife The Economist
DC:
Area's Economy to Fly, But Not as High Washington Post / Neil Irwin
American
matching Delta’s fare cutbacks AP via Newsday
Mergers
and acquisitions The Economist
Stockmarkets
The Economist
China:
The struggle of the champions The Economist
Delivering
on Doha's promise The Economist
Now
spend it sensibly The Economist
Treasuries
edge up as pre-payrolls jitters set in Reuters / Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
Mexico's
Foreign Debt Rating Raised by Moody's Bloomberg / Thomas Black
Dollar
Declines Slightly In December Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Crude
Futures Fall After Inventory Report AP and Forbes via Google News
China's
quest to sell cars in the U.S. IHT / Chris Buckley
Jobless
Claims Climb, Shows Uneven Recovery AP via Baltimore Sun / Jeannine
Aversa
Starbucks
posts 8% growth in sales for month Seattle Post Intelligencer / Kristen
Millares Bolt
Simpler
Airfares Are on the Horizon LA Times / James F. Peltz
NYSE
seat sells for $1.025 million; down from last sale Dow Jones and AP via
South Florida Sun Sentinel
CBOE,
biggest rival plan to list Spiders Chicago Tribune
Lobby
group exec blasts Spitzer probes Newsday / Pradnya Joshi
CA:
Ports expect import surge Orange County Register / Jeff Collins
CA:
O.C. office-vacancy rate at four-year low Orange County Register / Hang
Nguyen
Call
for Adjustable Mortgages Jumps Bloomberg via LA Times
Crisis
Management: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable Federal Reserve
Board / Donald L. Kohn
3
...2 ...1 ... jobs report! CNN / Kathleen Hays
US
Treasuries get lift from volatile jobs data Reuters / Wayne Cole
Dollar
Gains for Fifth Day in Longest Rally in More Than a Year Bloomberg /
Joshua Krongold and Mark Tannenbaum
A Foreign Aid Disaster in
the Making Ludwig von Mises Institute / Thomas J. DiLorenzo
House
not for sale CNN
UK:
Penniless if they lost their jobs Daily Mail via This Is London
Rushed
Fed Minutes Could Use a Good Rewrite Man Bloomberg / Caroline Baum
Greenspan
will prove a hard act to follow The Scotsman / Susan Nelson
Funds
Increase Use Of Naked Default Swaps Alternative Investment News via
Institutional Investor / Emma Trincal
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