Iceland repayment bill rattles home opinion

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It is not only the US Banks that are paying back the relief money they have gotten to alleviate the financial crisis.
Iceland was one of the more spectacular breakdowns during the global economic crisis . The total collapse of the Icelandic banks devastated the country and left Iceland with a low reputation on the financial [...]

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Japan economy on comeback course

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If you think your country has been severely hit by the recession, Japan has probably been hit just as bad.. or worse. Worse because Japan’s economy is still in trouble while global signals indicate strengthening recovery trends.
Japan was one of the first economies to feel the economic crisis, they even got ahead of the [...]

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Bank executives are paying back TARP funds

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The favorable terms of the TARP program have been an angry blip on almost everyone’s radar. The main fallacy was perhaps the fact that the TARP project was (and is) direct intervention on the capital markets. The result has been unsatisfactory and with basically no interest, banks have been able to build profit and jump [...]

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Falling dollar lending life to the Dow

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An interesting viepoint. Here is a video with a couple of though-worthy pointers on the health status of the Dow. Applyable to most markets I would say.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc_g94VJ5Uo]Dow Jones Thanksgiving crash warning

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