Morgan Stanley expects 10-year yields to rise 220 bps in 2010 – Posted by Edward Harrison – … Realistically, if rates spike to 5.5%, it would be a blood bath for insurers, and probably for pension funds (and hence municipalities as well). Mortgage rates would skyrocket and this would [...]

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    Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives – … a startling new phenomenon has been detected: instead of receiving remittances from relatives in the richest country on earth, some down-and-out Mexican families are scraping together what they can to support their unemployed loved ones in the United States. … [...]

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In her new book, “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin says she doesn’t like vegetarians. Palin says all vegetarians should go back to Vegetaria, where they came from.

Unlike Conan O’Brien, from whom that line came from, many investor bulletins are not concise. And I may have seen more releases from top investors of greater length, but I [...]

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     and Speech – On the Outlook for the Economy and Policy – Chairman Ben S. Bernanke – At the Economic Club of New York, New York, New York – FRB Board andBernanke hints low-rate period may get even longer – Bloomberg – Federal Reserve chairman Ben [...]

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