Archive for January, 2010
LOS ANGELES - Documents released Thursday show placement agents have received more than $125 million in fees from private investment funds for getting business with the giant California Public Employees’ Retirement System.
A record 2.8 million households were threatened with foreclosure, and that number is expected to rise this year as more unemployed and cash-strapped homeowners fall behind on their mortgages.
Medical records for about 15,500 Northern California Kaiser patients - about 9,000 of them in the Bay Area - were compromised after thieves stole an external drive from a Kaiser employee’s car last month, Kaiser officials said Tuesday.
The Bank of Canada backed away Monday from its recent warnings about a real estate bubble in Canada.
U.S. home loan rates could rise by as much as three-quarters of a percentage point in the spring as the Federal Reserve ends its mortgage bonds purchase program, a top Fed policymaker said in an interview published on Saturday.
Elected county officials who retired and returned to work to draw both pensions and paychecks without resigning from office did so in good faith as a practice allowed by a state retirement system, the executive director of the Arkansas Association of Counties said Friday.
Already grappling with recession-weakened revenues, West Virginia’s state government now must find an additional $145 million to shore up its pension funds, Manchin administration officials said Friday.
Fannie Mae is seeking to prop up Florida’s ravaged real estate market by reviewing hundreds of condo projects in the state that currently don’t qualify for its loans.
IRS agents are relying too heavily on property liens to collect delinquent taxes, harming financially struggling Americans and circumventing taxpayer protections ordered by Congress in 1998, a report said.
Arizona House Republicans on Tuesday proposed a sweeping package of tax cuts aimed at helping businesses, with Speaker Kirk Adams saying the incentives are needed to spur economic development and add high-paying jobs in the state.
A gunman who opened fire with a shotgun at a federal building Monday, killing a court security guard and wounding a U.S. marshal before he was shot to death, was upset over losing a lawsuit over his Social Security benefits, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
NEW YORK - Your past is never really behind you. Or so it seems when it comes to credit reports.
Sunday, January 03, 2010 NEW YORK: A string of exploding investment bubbles that started with the dot-coms and ended with mortgages and oil dominated the years from 2000 to 2009.
With the New Year almost here, many of us will be making resolutions to improve our lives.
Its that time of year when many of us make new years resolutionslose weight, eat better, get more rest, and the like.