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2008 in Review: Greed, Corruption and the Dumbest Move in Tech
2008 has been quite a year. So we're asking a few of our favorite commentators to weigh in on the best and the worst of the year; the most underrated and the most overrated. Up today is Kara Swisher, of All Things D. We started by asking her to name the b
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Line for Bailouts Grows: Commercial Developers Want Govt. Aid, Too
It's almost like there's a carnival barker standing outside Congress shouting: Bailouts, bailouts, step right up and get yer bailouts."First it was the banks and brokers, then came the automakers and homebuilders. And now commerci
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Who's the 'Smart Money' Now? Americans Give Up on Stocks, Wall St. Says 'Buy'
Wall Street (a.k.a. the "smart money") is taking solace in news individual investors (a.k.a. the "dumb money") took a record $72 billion out of stock mutual funds in October, according to the Investment Company Institute; other fund fl
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Have Tech CEOs Been Naughty or Nice?
Top technology reporter Kara Swisher isnt known for pulling punches on her blog. But shes got a soft side, too. We went to All Things D's headquarters to talk about 2008 and what Kara sees happening in tech in 2009. In this installment, we a
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How to Solve the Housing Crisis: Let in More Immigrants to Buy Houses
In order to prevent another disastrous wave of foreclosures and stem the decline in home prices, America should allow in more immigrants and give them incentives to buy homes, says Gary Shilling, president of A. Gary Shilling & Co.A smaller version of
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Get Ready to Scrimp and Save, Says Economist Shilling
Hoping for a quick return to the consumer spending habits of past quarter-century, when "financial discipline" meant remembering to withdraw enough home equity to get a new SUV every two years? Forget about it, says Gary Shilling.We are indeed g
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Housing Cure: Give Us Your Skilled, Your Educated, Your Bundled Mortgages
In order to prevent another disastrous wave of foreclosures and stem the decline in home prices, America should allow in more immigrants and give them incentives to buy homes, says Gary Shilling, president of A. Gary Shilling & Co.A smaller version of
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S&P 600: That's Gary Shilling's Forecast for 2009, Not an Index
The S&P 500 could fall to as low as 600 in 2009 and "alternative assets" like commodities and currencies will provide no shelter for investors, says Gary Shilling, president of A. Gary Shilling & Co.Having been
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He Saw the Crash Coming: What Gary Shilling Sees for 2009
"These Wall Street jokers didn't see the crash coming so why should we listen to them now?"That, in a nutshell, is the response of many Tech Ticker viewers to the 2009 prognostications of any/all guests (sometimes including the ones who
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Oracle: Eat My Dust, IBM
From All Things Digital, Dec. 19, 2008:Were growing dramatically faster than our competitors, and our target really is to beat IBM (IBM). If we maintain our trajectory and IBM maintains their trajectory, we could pass them as early as the
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Big Three Bailout: Carmakers Get Up To $17.4 Billion From TARP
From Clusterstock:Finally, the automakers get their bridge loan. We're still looking through details, but the basic idea is: $13.4 billion will come from TARP and the companies have until March 31, 2009 to come up with a totally new set of stakeholder
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The Dollar Isn't Dead Yet, But Gold Will Shine in 2009
After hitting a 13-year low vs. the yen and a 12-week low vs. the euro earlier this week, the dollar has rallied in the past 24 hours due to a combination of factors Ashraf Laidi, chief strategist at CMC Markets, says will prevent the greenback from suffe
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Left and Right Agree: It's Time to End the TARP
From ClusterStock, Dec. 18, 2008:It's a rare day when critics from the conservative Heritage Foundation and the liberal Campaign for America's Future agree on anything. But the Treasury Department's Wall Street bailout fund, the TARP, has finally built
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Current Quarter 'Crescendo' of Recession, But There's No 'V' in Recovery, Sonders Says
The Fed is pulling out all the stops - and then some. That much is clear. Less clear is whether the Fed's extraordinary actions will stem the economy's demise."Clearly conditions warrant" this kind of dramatic action, says Liz Ann Sonders, chief
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Current Quarter 'Crescendo' of Recession, But Don't Expect V-Shaped Recovery, Sonders Says
The Fed is pulling out all the stops - and then some. That much is clear. Less clear is whether the Fed's extraordinary actions will stem the economy's demise."Clearly conditions warrant" this kind of dramatic action, says Liz Ann Sonders, chief
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Mortgage Rates Tumble! Great News, But No Housing Bottom Until Prices Stabilize
Mortgage rates have tumbled in recent weeks, thanks in part to the Fed's extraordinary efforts."They've got the prod out trying to prod lending and borrowing," Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab & Co., say
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What the CEO Shuffle Says about LinkedIn
Dan Nye became CEO of LinkedIn in 2007, with the unabashed singular goal of taking LinkedIn public. It was going to be the culmination of his career as a software executive the Valley, the moment hed climed the executive ladder to reach. As of toda
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Schwab's Sonders: The Bright Side of America's 'Lost Decade' in Stocks
As the market continues to hold its gains since the Nov. 20 lows, more observers are starting to think that was an important bottom, including many who were previously cautious on stocks.Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab &
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How to Tell if You're the Victim of Brokerage Fraud
Bernie Madoff's investors were clearly the victims of fraud. But as their portfolios evaporated in 2008, many other Americans are rightly wondering if they've been the victims of wrongdoing by their brokers. ...
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Can U.S. Internet Companies Succeed in China?
Everyone in Silicon Valley knows China is a huge opportunity, in fact, venture capital investment in China soared more than 20% in the third quarter to nearly $1 billion. Yes, the same quarder the world's financial markets fell into total chaos. The Inter
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