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Of the list of culprits of the past economic meltdown, Thomas Woods, the author of Meltdown believes that too much blame has focused on the sub-prime loans. Because the large increases in foreclosures occurred at the same time for both the sub-prime and prime loans, Woods rejects the common notion that the sub-prime loan problems somehow infected the prime loan market. The real culprit in foreclosures, Woods says, was not the sub-prime mortgages, but the adjustable-rate mortgages.

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Investor confidence in the world’s most sophisticated financial services center has been rattled rather unevenly. But, has this led to a cut in the financial services labor pool?

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As any first-year econ student will tell you, there are two disciplines in economics – microeconomics and macroeconomics. And they do not like each other. As the U.S. Congress prepares to drop the hammer on the financial services industry, let’s consider the forces that are butting heads and why it is only now that they’ve decided to do so.

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The richest man uses the people’s story to create wealth to hike the historic gallery of the world with uncommon treasures. The poor man has the raw materials to create money but could not because of timidity and lack of confidence in himself.

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The global recession over the last couple of years has had an effect on many, and the steel industry is no different. It has become less in demand as the recession has hit. The problem the steel industry has in such times is that the knock-on effect of the troubles of other industries often means a reduction in steel production. So many products use steel in some form so the knock-on effect can be massive.

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