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The Real Truth Behind The Housing Bust

Topix - Business News  Wed, 12/14/2011 - 19:16

The housing bust numbers maintained by the National Association of Realtors, a trade group, turned out to have been way too optimistic, overestimating the number of houses sold by double counting and miscounting.


 

LightSquared is Obama's dangerous broadband boondoggle

Topix - Business News  Wed, 09/21/2011 - 22:58

If you thought the half-billion-dollar, stimulus-funded Solyndra solar company bust was a taxpayer nightmare, just wait.


 

Bank of America will cut 30,000 jobs

Newsvine - business  Mon, 09/12/2011 - 09:24

Bank of America will cut about 30,000 jobs over the next few years in a bid to save $5 billion per year. The cost-cutting drive is part of a broader effort to reshape and shrink the nation's largest bank as it copes with fallout from the housing bust.


 

In Silicon Valley, the Night Is Still Young

NYT > Business  Sat, 08/20/2011 - 12:09

Even as memories of the dot-com bust rustle in the background, Silicon Valley is still thriving and generally optimistic.


 

Technology Investors Turn Wary on Ventures

NYT > Business  Tue, 08/09/2011 - 22:40

A “Madoff effect” and the smarting memory of the dot-com bust have combined to produce a newly cautious class of limited partners.


 

Mulpuru Says Groupon IPO `Smells of 1999' Internet Bust

Topix - Business News  Fri, 06/10/2011 - 20:06

June 10 -- Sucharita Mulpuru, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc., discusses the valuation of Groupon Inc.


 

After Bust in Ireland, Ordinary People Make Do With Less

NYT > Business  Fri, 05/06/2011 - 13:10

Many people in Ireland who floated up during the good times now see themselves slipping even further behind.


 

DealBook: Scarred by the Dot-Com Bust, Reinvented for Social Med...

NYT > Business  Thu, 04/07/2011 - 05:45

Thomas Weisel and other heavyweight bankers and investors from the dot-com heyday are now assessing opportunities among the social media start-ups.


 

Netflix Begins Its Assault On Cable Industry, May Spend $100 Mil...

Digg - Business & Finance  Tue, 03/15/2011 - 18:38

Could be a huge bust. Or could drive Netflix subscribership way up.


 

Gallaghers' dad in bust-up with neighbour

Topix - Business News  Sun, 02/27/2011 - 07:29

Rockers Liam and Noel Gallagher's estranged father has received a police warning after he lashed out at a neighbour in a bust-up over a parking spot outside his home in Manchester.