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- GATA Sues Fed to Expose Gold Price Suppression - Stockhouse
- UBS whistle-blower in prison - Tulsa World
- Foreclosure filings dropped in Licking County in 2009 - Newark Advocate
- The Highest Ranked Online Marketing Technique - Gather.com
- Study Just Published: Malaysia Defence & Security Report Q4 2009 - PR Inside
| GATA Sues Fed to Expose Gold Price Suppression - Stockhouse Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:01 AM PST "Get Your Gold the Hell Outta Here!" HSBC has served notice to its retail customers – many of whom are simply middle-men and custodial services which store gold with HSBC on behalf of hundreds of their own account holders – that all their gold must be out of its facility by July 2010. Otherwise, folks, prepare for an unwelcome knock at your door. HSBC's letter says that, in the absenceof directions to the contrary, clients' metal "will be returned to the address of record... at your expense." http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1262984580.php . GATA Sues Fed to Expose Gold Price Suppression Central Bank gold leases, IMF, cash settlements, short sales of "paper gold". 50-100 ounces of gold claims sold for every ounce of existing gold in the world. Central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise. http://maxkeiser.com/2010/01/08/ote35-on-the-edge-with-chris-powell-gata/ . Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| UBS whistle-blower in prison - Tulsa World Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:01 AM PST MINERSVILLE, Pa. — A former banker who provided key assistance in the U.S. tax evasion probe of Swiss banking giant UBS AG reported to prison Friday and said his cooperation should have earned him the federal government's gratitude, not prison time.
Bradley Birkenfeld, 44, a former private banker for UBS, said his whistle-blowing exposed "the largest tax fraud in the world" and allowed the Internal Revenue Service to recover billions of dollars in lost revenue. Birkenfeld, who handled funds of wealthy American clients of UBS from 2001 through 2006, pleaded guilty in June 2008 to a single count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and was sentenced to more than three years in prison. "I think it's an injustice," he said Friday as he reported to a federal prison to begin his sentence. "I'm a proud American who did the best I could for my country, and this is how they reward me." Birkenfeld admitted helping clients hide hundreds of millions of dollars and evade U.S. taxes. His sentence has drawn criticism from whistle-blower advocates as too harsh because of Birkenfeld's importance in exposing tax evasion at UBS. The Swiss bank last year paid a $780 million fine to the U.S. and agreed to turn over the names of 4,450 suspected tax dodgers. Birkenfeld began providing inside information to U.S. authorities in 2007, describing how UBS helped rich Americans hide income from the IRS. Prosecutors have said Birkenfeld did not initially reveal his own misconduct. He denies that. Birkenfeld filed a complaint earlier this week against prosecutors, accusing them of making false statements to the federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who sentenced him to prison.Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Foreclosure filings dropped in Licking County in 2009 - Newark Advocate Posted: 09 Jan 2010 07:25 AM PST NEWARK -- Foreclosure filings in Licking County declined in 2009 for the first time since the mid-1990s, possibly signaling better days ahead for homeowners and a battered housing market. The drop was minimal, less than 2 percent, and foreclosures exceeded 1,000 for a fourth consecutive year. Foreclosures soared almost 40 percent from 2005 to 2008, but fell from 1,202 in 2008 to 1,181 in 2009. Still, with the county and state reeling from the worst recession in possibly 70 years, any positive signs are significant, especially in a housing market at the center of the economic downturn. "I think the banks are working with people," said Mark Evans, executive officer of the Licking County Board of Realtors. "That's a positive sign in our community. We don't see as many foreclosures now because of banks willing to work on short sales." In a short sale, the lender allows the sale of the house for less than the amount owed by the homeowner. It avoids a lengthy foreclosure proceeding, during which the property deteriorates, and allows the bank to recover most of its investment sooner. "Those foreclosed homes that eventually sell, sell well below market value and negatively affect the values of someone's home and around the neighborhood," Evans said. "The higher number of foreclosures, the lower the average sale price in our market." Home sales surged in the fall, bringing the number of transactions in 2009 to within 3 percent of 2008, but sale prices remained low. The average sale price was $129,312 in 2009, compared to $151,122 in 2008, through 11 months. It's unclear whether the slight decline in foreclosures reveals the local economy has hit bottom and started to recover, or more bad news lies ahead. "What I'm hearing is we may have a little bit of a lull at the moment, but there's anticipated in the next year or two, we're bound to see another round of them," said Debbie Tegtmeyer, executive director of the Licking County Coalition for Housing. The reason for the expectations, Tegtmeyer said, are predictions that adjustable rate mortgages are due to adjust up again, which could force homeowners struggling to make payments into foreclosure. "And, we still have a lot of people out of work," Tegtmeyer said. "Unemployment benefits have been extended, but unemployment does not equal the salary before being laid off." Cheryl Snyder, senior vice president/head of retail banking at Park National Bank, said she is not ready to proclaim the slight drop in foreclosures a trend. "Some of the programs that the government put out last year may have temporarily stalled some of the foreclosure activity," Snyder said. One of the new requirements calls for a trial period before a foreclosure, when the lender and borrower can work on modifying the payments. "The foreclosure actions are stalled during that time, so it's premature to make any conclusions," Snyder said. "It could be just a matter of timing. But, we're encouraged, at least, it did not increase in 2009." The Advocate classified section listed three pages of sheriff's sales in Thursday's edition. Sixteen foreclosures already have been filed in the new year, according to Common Pleas Court records, so the good news might be short lived. Scott Torguson, a legal aid attorney with Southeastern Ohio Legal Services, said the statistics show foreclosures have leveled off, but not that things are necessarily getting better. "I don't think it's getting worse," Torguson said. "If it got any worse, it'd be such a huge disaster. I think we've hit rock bottom. It may stay like it is a couple years and then improve." The county had 5,508 foreclosure filings from 2005-09, compared to 4,183 in the previous 10 years, from 1995-2004. "There's a point where (banks) stopped giving as many bad loans, so that's going to help," Torguson said. "I wouldn't be surprised if it went up a little next year, or down a little bit. I see (the numbers) as kind of neutral news." Kent Mallett can be reached at (740) 328-8545 or kmallett@newarkadvocate.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| The Highest Ranked Online Marketing Technique - Gather.com Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:22 AM PST Is this the ultimate internet marketing technique? 'Dear Friend, In a word, NO. This is most definitely not the greatest internet marketing methodology. It could be one of the worst. Many individuals think marketing's simply advertising or selling products and services. Promoting and selling are part of it, but are not the whole picture. Marketing is everything involved in keying out the wants and needs of a targeted group of consumers, and then doing what's needed to meet the needs those shoppers. Naturally, you could have competitors attempting to do the same thing better than you. You'll do consumer research on shoppers and research their wants. You must utilize what you learn to make choices about planning your product, pricing, promoting (including advertising), distributing and attempting to sell your product. The net offers a method to distinguish and reach big amounts of prospective clients. Irrespective of how specialized your product or service is, good internet marketing system might reach the best potential number of prospective customers. There is a lot approaches to net selling. There are three online marketing methods professionals have found to be effective: 1. Article promotion inclusdes writing simple, helpful, educational articles which help your readers, rather than making an attempt to sell them something. Then, you submit them to article banks or ezine publishers. 2. Blogging, simple for web log, is a kind of online log or book that grew famous in the late 1990s. They may be somewhat informal or private, or newsy, or whatever tone you suspect is acceptable. They don't have to relate straight to your service to be useful. In fact, like the articles, individual, easy, beneficial educational blogs are more effective than just trying to sell folks something. You can put an internet site to host your blog, or you may utilize one of many internet sites that provide free blog hosting. Be certain to update it on a regular basis! People favor fresh content. 3. Web networking is, put simply joining with as many people as practical to find more and share info relating to your company. Networking may make you many leads. There are some strategies to do this online, for example e-mail, groups, bulletin boards, specialized net forums, and social networking websites. Part of what creates these three methods so effective is they help build trust between you and your potential customer. After all, you are not bullying them into buying anything. You are simply making an attempt to help. So then, what is it, the top online marketing Strategy? What is the secret? The secret's simple: there is no magic bullet, common knowledge. The greatest online marketing system is whatever works. And these days, article promotion, blogging and online networking have a tendency to work. Additional Resources: Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Study Just Published: Malaysia Defence & Security Report Q4 2009 - PR Inside Posted: 09 Jan 2010 08:51 AM PST 2010-01-09 17:51:47 - Recently published research from Business Monitor International, "Malaysia Defence & Security Report Q4 2009", is now available at Fast Market Research
We have revised down our 2009 growth forecast for Malaysia from 3.1% to 1.4% after the latest industrial production data revealed that factory output contracted at its fastest pace in seven years in November. Moreover, with the global economy unlikely to pick up until the first half of 2010, we have also revised down our 2010 growth forecast from 4.6% to 3.2%. While planned fiscal stimulus and anticipated interest rate cuts (we are expecting Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) to follow up its 25bps interest rate reduction on November 24 2008 with a total of 50bps worth of cuts in 2009) should help to keep growth propped up in 2009, we do not believe that they will be enough to protect the economy from a weakening external environment and its knock-on effects on private consumption and investment. Defence Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has indicated that a portion of Malaysia's MYR7bn economic stimulus package would go to the Defence Ministry for additional development projects. Major defence procurements at the start of 2009 included two contracts totalling MYR603mn with two companies supplying parts and components to the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) for five years. It was also announced at the start of 2009 that the country's first submarine, a French-made Scorpeneclass KD Abdul Rahman, is scheduled for delivery in July 2009. The Sepanggar Naval base, a 190ha naval base project costing MYR636mn, is also scheduled to be completed in July. The submarine will be housed at the new naval base. A second submarine KD Tun Abdul Razak, is expected to arrive at the end of the year. In February 2009 the Malaysian government announced that military assets and resources of ASEAN member countries would be used in tackling non-traditional threats such as providing natural disaster relief and curbing crime in border areas such as human and drug-trafficking. Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said such assistance, however, would only be provided after the country affected by the natural disasters, such as the cyclone or tsunami, requested it. He said agreement on the use of the military assets was a follow-up to the decision of the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) in Kuala Lumpur in 2005 which called on the defence sector to also participate in the realisation of ASEAN's goal of forming a regional community that was happy, peaceful, safe and stable. We continue to expect that the Malaysian government will increase defence spending by 4% annually, in real terms, over the coming years. Absolute increases will depend in part on how the country's economy fares in the face of the global financial crisis.
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