Posts Tagged ‘economics

Whats the main differences? What does the financial part bring in to the course that is different from economics?
And what does each course lead to job wise?

Chris Martenson – Federal Reserve Buys More Than 100% of Mortgages Issued in 2009: In other words, the Federal Reserve alone bought $722 billion of mortgages .

On Wednesday Vanguard announced that their fixed income index funds would be switching from the Barclays Aggregate to the Barclays Float-Adjusted Aggregate.

If it’s not public option, somehow it won’t be effective at providing competition to the insurance industry. I just don’t think that’s what the Reid book shows or what other observers of international systems would conclude. …

An economist walks readers through the most recent income statement of WellPoint Inc. to explain how insurance companies make money.

Consumer financial obligations are still a little high historically, but mortgage obligations are very high (especially considering the level of interest rates). Just like after the housing bubble of the late ’80s/ early ’90s, …

David Cay Johnstone, at Firedoglake, kicks unbelievable amounts of ass with his recollection of one glaring hypocrisy that I, and everyone else, had simply overlooked: the government provides publicly-subsidized insurance for private …

The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 12.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier, which was a holiday shortened week. … The Refinance Index increased 17.4 percent …

Reuters reports that a record 7.58% of U.S. homeowners with mortgages were 30+ days delinquent in August, up from 7.32% in July …

Actually that’s not exactly accurate, since Kaiser actually reported that “In 2009, the average annual premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance are $4824 for single coverage and $13375 for family coverage. …


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