 Neraca Pembayaran Indonesia (NPI) pada triwulan III 2011 mengalami defisit US$ 4 miliar dan jumlah cadangan devisa turun menjadi US$ 114,5 miliar. Jumlah cadangan devisa ini diperkirakan cukup untuk membiayai kebutuhan impor dan pembayaran utang…
Financial markets appear willing to give the United States something they offer fewer and fewer countries these days — time to get public finances in order. It remains to be seen how long investors will…
We had a deal of sorts from the eurozone leaders – but it was a terrible deal for Greece. Now it seems the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has flown back to Athens, and in…
In a lawsuit filed against one of the largest private mortgage brokers in the country, the United States alleges fraudulent lending practices by Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corp. cost the government $834 million in insurance…
China might just be about to strike the deal of the decade. For a fraction of the trillion euros needed to clean up Europe’s debt mess, Beijing could score huge diplomatic kudos for helping end the…
Hey, wealthy foreigners! Want to live in the U.S.? Buy a home here. International purchases of American homes are ramping up, and a new Senate bill designed to boost the ailing real-estate market would encourage…
NEW YORK — Donald Trump calls it home but so do 7,719 other people worth at least $30 million. In fact, more of the nation’s super rich live in New York than any other U.S.…
Three years ago, the real estate market was simple – simply terrible, that is. In virtually every part of the country, foreclosures were shooting up and prices were plunging. Today, the real estate picture is…
“Starving the beast” is a favorite conservative strategy for forcing cuts in federal spending. The idea is to deprive the government of revenue in order to force spending cuts — and resistance to new taxes…
Besarnya animo masyarakat memanfaatkan jasa lembaga pembiayaan untuk mendapatkan kendaraan diikuti dengan munculnya praktik baru dalam pengemplangan cicilan kredit. Pengemplang berlindung dibalik organisasi kemasyarakatan (ormas) tertentu untuk lari dari kewajibannya melunasi pinjaman. Hal itu diungkapkan…
A sharp rise in China’s yuan currencymight cut the U.S. trade deficit by as much as one third and create enough American jobs to put at least a modest dent in the unemployment rate. Then again,…
The housing sector will be in focus with a Reuters poll of economists expecting the S&P Case-Shiller Index to fall by 4.4 percent in July, only a slight move up from May’s 4.6 percent drop
The first of a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that led to financial collapse. In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a…
Free checking is getting harder to come by, but there are ways to keep more of your money. It’s time to add free checking to the endangered species list. No-cost access to your own money…
Las Vegas — In the brutal heat, Mike Forizs ventures out of his North Las Vegas home to take out the trash. “If I go over and look at the house on the corner, there…
The European crisis that you’ve been reading about in the paper is worth watching carefully. In fact, it has now morphed into something much bigger than a European crisis – it could batter the entire…
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