<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - insolvency</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/insolvency</link><description>Newsvine - insolvency</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 9 Dec 2012 23:50:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 19:06:39 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Let's Defend Social Security and Other Entitlements With the Second Bill Of Rights - New Economic Perspectives</title>
<description><![CDATA[So, today progressives echo this even though the SS Tax is a regressive tax, and anything but progressive in its impact on the economy. With the development of&nbsp;the MMT approach to economics, and its emphasis on the government&rsquo;s ability to spend&nbsp;without a solvency &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cebes]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Cebes]]></source><link>http://cebes.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/09/15800165-lets-defend-social-security-and-other-entitlements-with-the-second-bill-of-rights-new-economic-perspectives</link><guid>http://cebes.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/09/15800165-lets-defend-social-security-and-other-entitlements-with-the-second-bill-of-rights-new-economic-perspectives</guid><category>politics</category><category>social-security</category><category>safety-net</category><category>fiat-currency</category><category>insolvency</category><pubDate>Sun, 9 Dec 2012 23:50:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cebes48B42AA9-FADA-3FC0-C626-152D06C30983.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="50" width="50" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cebes48B42AA9-FADA-3FC0-C626-152D06C30983.jpg&amp;width=120" width="50" height="50" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Federal Taxes and Borrowing Don't Pay For Anything... - Modern Money Mechanics...The Gold Standard Is Dead. - Prof. Kelton &amp; MMT</title>
<description><![CDATA[Professor Stephanie Kelton's interview &nbsp;with Harry Shearer is a must read if you believe the Federal Government needs to raise taxes to spend. &nbsp;Or, if you think we're soon going broke like Greece.&nbsp;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cebes]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Cebes]]></source><link>http://cebes.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/03/15629419-federal-taxes-and-borrowing-dont-pay-for-anything-modern-money-mechanicsthe-gold-standard-is-dead-prof-kelton-mmt</link><guid>http://cebes.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/03/15629419-federal-taxes-and-borrowing-dont-pay-for-anything-modern-money-mechanicsthe-gold-standard-is-dead-prof-kelton-mmt</guid><category>taxes</category><category>politics</category><category>debt</category><category>borrowing</category><category>deficits</category><category>default</category><category>gold-standard</category><category>fiat-currency</category><category>insolvency</category><pubDate>Mon, 3 Dec 2012 04:59:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cebesCF8B93AA-83DA-6D4E-6284-DE9E19D7B397.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="136" width="139" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cebesCF8B93AA-83DA-6D4E-6284-DE9E19D7B397.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="118" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>State Senator Proposes Dissolving City Of Detroit « CBS Detroit</title>
<description><![CDATA[State officials are now looking at the possibility of&nbsp;dissolving&nbsp;the city of Detroit. Basically throwing up a white flag, and giving up any hope of rehabilitating the rusting relic of the automotive boom. Decades of poor leadership and changing economics have taken thei&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[JBrenn]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[JBrenn]]></source><link>http://jbrenn.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/29/15533884-state-senator-proposes-dissolving-city-of-detroit-cbs-detroit</link><guid>http://jbrenn.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/29/15533884-state-senator-proposes-dissolving-city-of-detroit-cbs-detroit</guid><category>bankruptcy</category><category>government</category><category>us-news</category><category>insolvency</category><category>progressive-leadership</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:00:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jbrenn177262B9-2166-E75E-4BA6-5C6E32FA5C07.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="195" width="260" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jbrenn177262B9-2166-E75E-4BA6-5C6E32FA5C07.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why OnLive's brave venture failed | Technology | guardian.co.uk</title>
<description><![CDATA[For those unfamiliar with US corporate law, OnLive's announcement on Monday that it would be going through a process named the "assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC)" would have been somewhat bewildering.
ABC is a kind of mini-insolvency, a method of staying in business &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Skelland]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Andrew Skelland]]></source><link>http://andrew-skelland.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/21/13396898-why-onlives-brave-venture-failed-technology-guardiancouk</link><guid>http://andrew-skelland.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/21/13396898-why-onlives-brave-venture-failed-technology-guardiancouk</guid><category>technology</category><category>bankruptcy</category><category>creditors</category><category>gaming</category><category>cloud</category><category>insolvency</category><category>onlive</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:19:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=andrew-skelland176B9E24-F6FB-928D-5C82-DB40B6979BA1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="84" width="140" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=andrew-skelland176B9E24-F6FB-928D-5C82-DB40B6979BA1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Social Security slipping closer to insolvency, government warns </title>
<description><![CDATA[Social Security should definitely be a bigger priority.&nbsp; It's been put off and put off and now insolvency is immenent.&nbsp; We cannot keep putting off the hard choices. That said, everyone should be doing a little sacrificing--not just the middle class and]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[At the Table with A.R. Lawyer]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[At the Table with A.R. Lawyer]]></source><link>http://atthetable.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/24/11372833-social-security-slipping-closer-to-insolvency-government-warns</link><guid>http://atthetable.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/24/11372833-social-security-slipping-closer-to-insolvency-government-warns</guid><category>social-security</category><category>us-news</category><category>insolvency</category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:07:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=atthetableAB3DC1F4-D118-4BEC-CC5D-8D06551EB226.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="105" width="187" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=atthetableAB3DC1F4-D118-4BEC-CC5D-8D06551EB226.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>President Ducks Growing Crisis Over Retirement </title>
<description><![CDATA[Some of society's most intractable problems come not from its failures but from its successes. Often you can't get a good thing without paying a bad price.
A prime example is our public old-age pension system, Social Security.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cornhusker4Palin]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Cornhusker4Palin]]></source><link>http://cornhusker4palin.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/30/7532418-president-ducks-growing-crisis-over-retirement</link><guid>http://cornhusker4palin.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/30/7532418-president-ducks-growing-crisis-over-retirement</guid><category>politics</category><category>social-security</category><category>obama</category><category>western-europe</category><category>insolvency</category><category>entitlement-spending</category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:34:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Social Security disability on verge of insolvency - Yahoo! News</title>
<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Devlin7]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Devlin7]]></source><link>http://devlin7.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/21/7431427-social-security-disability-on-verge-of-insolvency-yahoo-news</link><guid>http://devlin7.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/21/7431427-social-security-disability-on-verge-of-insolvency-yahoo-news</guid><category>fraud</category><category>unemployment</category><category>social-security</category><category>government</category><category>us-news</category><category>employment</category><category>federal-government</category><category>ssdi</category><category>insolvency</category><category>disablity</category><pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:14:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Financial Road to Serfdom</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Warning that failure to pay would create windfall gains for speculators who had bet that Greece would default, Mr. Bini Smaghi refused to acknowledge the corollary: to pay the full amount would create windfalls for those who bet that Greece would be forced to pay.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainfirefall]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mountainfirefall]]></source><link>http://mountainfirefall.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/15/6866766-the-financial-road-to-serfdom</link><guid>http://mountainfirefall.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/15/6866766-the-financial-road-to-serfdom</guid><category>germany</category><category>credit</category><category>cuts</category><category>politics</category><category>bankers</category><category>banks</category><category>greece</category><category>banking</category><category>debt</category><category>for-sale</category><category>owners</category><category>creditors</category><category>central-banks</category><category>gdp</category><category>lords</category><category>invest</category><category>landlords</category><category>consume</category><category>oligarchy</category><category>insolvency</category><category>renters</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:53:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>          What to Take Away from the Trustees Reports        | Mercatus  </title>
<description><![CDATA[1. From now on, Social Security will be running a permanent cash-flow deficit,
2. The Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted by 2036
3. The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will run out of assets in 2024, five years earlier than projected last year.
4.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[cg68doc]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[cg68doc]]></source><link>http://cg68doc.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/27/6727806-what-to-take-away-from-the-trustees-reports-mercatus</link><guid>http://cg68doc.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/27/6727806-what-to-take-away-from-the-trustees-reports-mercatus</guid><category>taxes</category><category>medicare</category><category>politics</category><category>social-security</category><category>debt</category><category>insolvency</category><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 06:33:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Playing the Banking Game</title>
<description><![CDATA[Banking Alternatives...Interesting info and suggestions]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Socrates1]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Socrates1]]></source><link>http://socrates1.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/23/6702811-playing-the-banking-game</link><guid>http://socrates1.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/23/6702811-playing-the-banking-game</guid><category>wall-street</category><category>state</category><category>fed</category><category>interest</category><category>politics</category><category>california</category><category>banks</category><category>government</category><category>system</category><category>goldman-sachs</category><category>north-dakota</category><category>charter</category><category>capitalism</category><category>socialism</category><category>states-rights</category><category>bankrupt</category><category>reserve</category><category>fiat-money</category><category>slaves</category><category>insolvency</category><category>printing-money</category><category>stimulous</category><category>big-banks</category><category>zero-interest</category><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 22:05:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>American Thinker Blog: Good News! Medicare and Social Security running out of money faster than first thought</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cornhusker4Palin]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Cornhusker4Palin]]></source><link>http://cornhusker4palin.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/14/6644569-american-thinker-blog-good-news-medicare-and-social-security-running-out-of-money-faster-than-first-thought</link><guid>http://cornhusker4palin.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/14/6644569-american-thinker-blog-good-news-medicare-and-social-security-running-out-of-money-faster-than-first-thought</guid><category>medicare</category><category>politics</category><category>reform</category><category>social-security</category><category>obama</category><category>bankrupt</category><category>insolvency</category><category>privatize</category><category>timothy-geithner</category><category>american-thinker-blog</category><pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 20:36:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>OpEdNews - Article: Our Time and Decline Into Moral Bankrupycy</title>
<description><![CDATA[There are times our politics and policies of this country leaves one felling distressed and asking rhetorically, "Is this what we've become?" Our unnecessary wars, resort to torture and our incapacity to hold the perpetrators to account smacks of moral bankruptcy that coincides w&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[wayne b-1247232]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[wayne b-1247232]]></source><link>http://wayneb-1247232.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/21/5688730-opednews-article-our-time-and-decline-into-moral-bankrupycy</link><guid>http://wayneb-1247232.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/21/5688730-opednews-article-our-time-and-decline-into-moral-bankrupycy</guid><category>white-house</category><category>resistance</category><category>economic</category><category>torture</category><category>us-news</category><category>militarism</category><category>north-vietnamese</category><category>abu-ghraib</category><category>action</category><category>imperialism</category><category>defense-donald-rumsfeld</category><category>decline</category><category>moral-values</category><category>viet-nam</category><category>viet-cong</category><category>insolvency</category><category>rod-serlings</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:38:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Germany's Merkel Says Euro Is in Danger</title>
<description><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Markel, spooking investors on Wednesday by saying the euro was in danger, urged speedy action to stop market "extortion" and said the EU needed a process for "orderly" insolvency of members.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[GOZO-unlimited]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[GOZO-unlimited]]></source><link>http://gozounlimited.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/19/4308941-germanys-merkel-says-euro-is-in-danger</link><guid>http://gozounlimited.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/19/4308941-germanys-merkel-says-euro-is-in-danger</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>germany</category><category>euro</category><category>insolvency</category><category>naked-short-selling</category><category>angela-markel</category><pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 19:28:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>A Death Blow To Health 'Reform' </title>
<description><![CDATA[The administration's own health department, in a devastating analysis, warns of rising costs, shrinking benefits and a long-term health care "death spiral." "Reform" has been pronounced dead.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cornhusker4Palin]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Cornhusker4Palin]]></source><link>http://cornhusker4palin.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/15/3634451-a-death-blow-to-health-reform</link><guid>http://cornhusker4palin.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/15/3634451-a-death-blow-to-health-reform</guid><category>politics</category><category>debt</category><category>deficits</category><category>fascism</category><category>insolvency</category><category>socialized-medicine</category><category>obamacare</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:30:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Foreigners moving to Britain to go bankrupt </title>
<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of people are coming to the UK from abroad every year to take advantage of lenient insolvency laws and declare themselves bankrupt.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[cartooncat]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[cartooncat]]></source><link>http://cartooncat.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/23/3304242-foreigners-moving-to-britain-to-go-bankrupt</link><guid>http://cartooncat.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/23/3304242-foreigners-moving-to-britain-to-go-bankrupt</guid><category>britain</category><category>world-news</category><category>uk</category><category>kent</category><category>germans</category><category>bankrupt</category><category>insolvency</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:31:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>California to Stop Issuing IOUs, Borrow $10.5 Billion </title>
<description><![CDATA[Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- California will stop using IOUs to pay its bills in early September, lifting a burden on businesses, taxpayers and municipalities that received $2 billion of the registered warrants instead of cash as the recession pushed the most-populous U.S.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Quiet Dogood]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Quiet Dogood]]></source><link>http://quietdogood.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/13/3150831-california-to-stop-issuing-ious-borrow-105-billion</link><guid>http://quietdogood.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/13/3150831-california-to-stop-issuing-ious-borrow-105-billion</guid><category>payments</category><category>california</category><category>us-news</category><category>insolvency</category><category>ious</category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:29:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bair Says Insurance Fund Could Be Insolvent This Year  </title>
<description><![CDATA[Where is the bailout for the American people? ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Akers]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Clay Akers]]></source><link>http://clayakers.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/10/2526920-bair-says-insurance-fund-could-be-insolvent-this-year</link><guid>http://clayakers.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/10/2526920-bair-says-insurance-fund-could-be-insolvent-this-year</guid><category>us-news</category><category>fdic</category><category>insolvency</category><category>sheila-bair</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:32:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Here comes socialism-----which is basically impossible given our history</title>
<description><![CDATA[Until the U.S. economy fell to pieces last fall, the phrase "nationalize the banks" usually conjured up, in the popular imagination, scenes of the early days of a revolution in some far-off land (if it conjured up anything at all).]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[jade-log]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jade-log]]></source><link>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/09/2525328-here-comes-socialism-which-is-basically-impossible-given-our-history</link><guid>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/09/2525328-here-comes-socialism-which-is-basically-impossible-given-our-history</guid><category>politics</category><category>nationalization</category><category>insolvency</category><category>meaningless</category><category>barack-the-redistributor</category><category>public-investment</category><category>wmd-fear-socialism-fear</category><category>banks-folding</category><category>voter-hostility</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:18:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Faith and Deficits</title>
<description><![CDATA[NY Times columnist Stanley Fish blogs about two Christian ideals:  solvency and bankruptcy.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Writing Athena]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Writing Athena]]></source><link>http://writingathena.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/02/2496876-faith-and-deficits</link><guid>http://writingathena.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/02/2496876-faith-and-deficits</guid><category>economy</category><category>bankruptcy</category><category>economics</category><category>debt</category><category>us-news</category><category>capital</category><category>bailout</category><category>poetry</category><category>christianity</category><category>theology</category><category>calvinism</category><category>insolvency</category><category>solvency</category><category>george-herbert</category><pubDate>Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:14:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>UNFUNDED $48B obligation for California state retirees' healthcare adds to state's budget woes</title>
<description><![CDATA[As if the state's budget problems weren't big enough, California's unfunded obligation for future government retiree health benefits has now topped $48 billion.
In his latest report on the topic, state Controller John Chiang said Tuesday the amount California is obligated to pay&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Writing Athena]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Writing Athena]]></source><link>http://writingathena.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/24/2473081-unfunded-48b-obligation-for-california-state-retirees-healthcare-adds-to-states-budget-woes</link><guid>http://writingathena.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/24/2473081-unfunded-48b-obligation-for-california-state-retirees-healthcare-adds-to-states-budget-woes</guid><category>economy</category><category>bankruptcy</category><category>healthcare</category><category>california</category><category>retirement</category><category>us-news</category><category>retirees</category><category>aarp</category><category>insolvency</category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:57:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ghost Story: Put Banks Out of Their Misery</title>
<description><![CDATA[Japan's story is a twice-told tale.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[fredegrar]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[fredegrar]]></source><link>http://fredegrar.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/17/2445265-ghost-story-put-banks-out-of-their-misery</link><guid>http://fredegrar.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/17/2445265-ghost-story-put-banks-out-of-their-misery</guid><category>business</category><category>economy</category><category>banking</category><category>bailout</category><category>recession</category><category>insolvency</category><category>banking-crisis</category><category>geithner</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:38:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Some state unemployment funds drying up(and the blindness and negligence continues for most).The byproduct of illogical and irrational Consumerism.</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's getting worse and people are still spending on "desires" and "wants",ignoring the crisis looming.Lemmings? Suicide.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Teodoro Leon 3]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Teodoro Leon 3]]></source><link>http://homelessokc.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/15/2216221-some-state-unemployment-funds-drying-upand-the-blindness-and-negligence-continues-for-mostthe-byproduct-of-illogical-and-irrational-consumerism</link><guid>http://homelessokc.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/15/2216221-some-state-unemployment-funds-drying-upand-the-blindness-and-negligence-continues-for-mostthe-byproduct-of-illogical-and-irrational-consumerism</guid><category>funds</category><category>reserves</category><category>unemployment</category><category>us-news</category><category>homelessness</category><category>insolvency</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:38:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Dirty Secret of the Financial Crisis: Our Banking System's Broken</title>
<description><![CDATA[Paulson's squad at Treasury pumped $250 billion into the largest banks, buying their stock at inflated prices on the assumption it would persuade investors to step forward with their capital too.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ladyblue999]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[ladyblue999]]></source><link>http://ladyblue999.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/23/2141632-the-dirty-secret-of-the-financial-crisis-our-banking-systems-broken</link><guid>http://ladyblue999.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/23/2141632-the-dirty-secret-of-the-financial-crisis-our-banking-systems-broken</guid><category>congress</category><category>economy</category><category>politics</category><category>banking</category><category>bailout</category><category>paulson</category><category>insolvency</category><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:59:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>General Motors Death Watch 201: Carmegeddon Pt. 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[When a company doesn't have enough money to pay creditors what they're owed, it's considered insolvent. By this definition, GM is insolvent. The American automaker's working capital stands at negative $20b.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Blitzen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Blitzen]]></source><link>http://blitzen.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/02/1945978-general-motors-death-watch-201-carmegeddon-pt-1</link><guid>http://blitzen.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/02/1945978-general-motors-death-watch-201-carmegeddon-pt-1</guid><category>business</category><category>bankruptcy</category><category>jobs</category><category>gm</category><category>credit</category><category>economics</category><category>general-motors</category><category>management</category><category>bailout</category><category>recession</category><category>insolvency</category><pubDate>Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:03:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>IndyMac Was Not on FDIC Watchlist </title>
<description><![CDATA[Why wasn't IndyMac Bank, whose problems were well known in the financial community, not on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s list of troubled institutions until shortly before its failure this month?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gumwars]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gumwars]]></source><link>http://gumwars.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/25/1694464-indymac-was-not-on-fdic-watchlist</link><guid>http://gumwars.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/25/1694464-indymac-was-not-on-fdic-watchlist</guid><category>business</category><category>economic-crisis</category><category>fdic</category><category>leverage</category><category>insolvency</category><category>bank-failure</category><category>credit-crisis</category><category>deleveraging</category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:53:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>