Mehran, I believe Bill is referring to the 1.3 million folks that are losing their long term unemployment benefits on december 31st as the $26 billion extension has not been passed.

The Postal Service says that the price jump will only be in effect until it can make up the $2.8 billion in losses that it accrued during a large decrease in mail volume it says were caused by the recession.

If you figure out how to do that consistently without taking risks that could collapse the empire, let me know and I can probably help you arrange a few billion in equity..

You can use your 401k funds for the down payment on the home.Lowes will work with you and you can purchase everything there...http://www.lowesforpros.com/lowes-building-and-loan-programThere are a billion other ways to go with this, but I was just keeping it simple.

Pretty much the same here with the CFBP, politicians tried to block it at every turn and not fund it, I'd say the financial industry is accepting the bitter pill and in return they get some protections and new benefits.There are billions of dollars in seller financed transactions, much of it now must go through servicers and at servicing rates that only a bandit would charge.

The lenders only count the primary term of the lease no matter who the tenant is ( even an investment grade billion dollar one ) because the bank wants to project the worse case scenario that the option will not be renewed.

We have a strong military community, always growing medical training facilities, a tremendously strong tourist and convention sector and the Eagle Ford Shale project created 116,000 high paying mid skilled jobs in 2013 and a 61 billion economic impact on the region.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/01/14/michigan-session-preview-what-to-do-with-a-1-3-billion-surplus/Michigan is going down the toilet!!

These institutional buyers literally have billions of dollars to spend and are recklessly bidding up to 100%, or more, of a property’s retail value.Before these institutional buyers arrived, you could realistically purchase a few properties every month at auction for 65% - 70% of retail value.

Bank of America also publicly showed taking only $45 Billion from the Fed in bailout money, but secretly took double that for a whopping $91 MM taken from the U.S. public coffers via Uncle Ben Bernanke.