Category Archives: Newsworthy Updates

Newsworthy Updates – February 5, 2010

Tweet –  Wall Street Journal with big news from Buffett and Berkshire: selling $8B of debt. –  American economic recovery seeing signs of improvement. Jobless rate falls to 9.7% (lowest in 5 months).

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Noteworthy Headlines February 4, 2010

Tweet –  The commercial real estate dilemma.  CRE debt is looming problem, but how big and when? (From @CNNMoney on Twitter.)

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Newsworthy Updates – February 1, 2010

Tweet –  Commerce Department reports personal incomes and consumer spending rose in December, making for the 3rd straight month of growth.  Good recovery news. –  Excerpt from Hank Paulson’s book in the WSJ. An inside look at the days in 2008 preceding the financial collapse.

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Newsworthy Updates – January 29, 2010

Tweet –  Good, but not good enough. Experts examine the President’s plans to help Americans save more for retirement. –  The US GDP jumped 5.7% in Q4 2009. Business is picking up, as we expected, mostly due to inventory rebuild.

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Newsworthy Updates – January 28, 2010

Tweet –  Optimists’ view of what happens when Fed stops buying mortgages. We’ll soon find out. –  Market again applauds Berkshire’s addition to S&P 500. Some of our thoughts in the Wall Street Journal.

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