Archives:
North America

ideas, thoughts, articles, news, tools, and information related to U.S.A. and Canada.

Secrecy conference: In countries like Romania and Cambodia, illegal leaks can be transparency’s only hope

By Michael Morisy While, in the United States, WikiLeaks has caused a furor for its journalism-by-data-dump, similar leaks abroad are […]

Foreclosure Activity Slows: Is This Really a ‘Good’ Thing?

The number of housing foreclosures are falling. There were slightly more than 225,000 foreclosure proceedings in February, down 14% compared […]

In Price of Farmland, an Echo of Last Boom

WILLIAM NEUMAN, NY Times, The 80 acres of rich farmland that Jeff Freking and his brother Randy bought near Le […]

What Will Warren Buffett Buy Next?

By Rita Nazareth and Michael Tsang, BusinessWeek, Warren Buffett has a cash hoard of almost $40 billion and wants to […]

Home prices: Should you buy a house right now?

By Les Christie, CNN Money, That big sucking sound you heard last week? That was the air being taken out […]

Wall Street Bets on Debt That Doesn’t Exist

by Matt Wirz and Katy Burne, WSJ,   Fresh from Wall Street’s alchemy labs: Credit derivatives tied to General Motors […]

Banks Up Profit Bets on the Rich

By Lauren LaCapra, TheStreet.com, NEW YORK (TheStreet) — By the end of 2008, Bank of America had positioned itself as […]

10 Magic Formula Canadian Stocks

10 Magic Formula Canadian Stocks Mar. 4 2011 – 1:47 pm | 674 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments […]

Guns N’ Roses Bassist Says Welcome To The (Investment) Jungle

Guns N’ Roses Bassist Says Welcome To The (Investment) Jungle Mar. 4 2011 – 2:04 pm | 1,179 views | […]

The Most Dangerous Bubble of All

By Martin D. Weiss and Safe Money editor Mike Larson, If you agree that the tech bubble of the 1990s […]