705P Eastern Time: Jonathan Allen, CQ, re Al Franken joins the U.S. Senate, and what does 60 Democrats mean?
720P Eastern Time: Margaret Chadbourn, Bloomberg, Home-Loan Delinquencies Double on Least-Risky
Mortgages, U.S. Report Says June 30 (Bloomberg) --
Delinquency rates on the least-risky mortgages more than doubled in the first
quarter from a year earlier as U.S. efforts to help homeowners failed to keep
pace with job losses that pushed more borrowers toward foreclosure.
735P Eastern Time: Ardeshir Arian, Media-Without-Walls, re the mullahs torture for confessions in Tehran.
750P Eastern Time: Gina Chon, Wall Street Journal, at Kirkuk, the hand over to Iraqi forces.
805P Eastern Time: Kathleen Rowley, Bloomberg, FICO Scores Show Flaws as U.S. Banks Cut Consumer Credit Lines: As banks decrease loans to consumers, regardless of individual risk profiles, flaws in the FICO formula are becoming more pronounced.
820P Eastern Time: Hugh Son, Bloomberg, June 30 (Bloomberg)
-- American International Group Inc., the insurer bailed out by the U.S., has an
"excellent chance" of repaying the government, outgoing Chief Executive
Officer Edward Liddy said today at the company's annual meeting
835P Eastern Time: Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, re the Twitter revolution in Tehran, re David Milliband seeks negotiation re the show trial of British embassy employee Rassam.
850P Eastern Time: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re new NASA boss hearings.
905P Eastern Time: George Friedman, Stratfor.com, re the Obama embassy to Moscow, and what does Russia want?
920P Eastern Time: Dr. Kamram Khan, Toronto, re the air travel spread of H1N1 pandemic.
935P Eastern Time: Roundtable. Jodi Schneider, CQ, Margaret Hoover, FNC, Mona Charen, NRO, Diana West, DianaWest.net, re Sarah Palin quits Alaska governorship
950P Eastern Time: Continued, re Is Sarah running for 2012?
1005P: (705P Pacific Time): Jim Carlton, Wall Street Journal, re California out of moneya nd time, re who will save Arnold? re Sarah Palin quits Alaska?
1020P: (720P Pacific Time): Yukari Iwatani, Wall Street Journal, Apple Inc.
said Chief Executive Steve Jobs returned to work after a nearly six-month
medical leave, but the company provided no update on its leader's health and
didn't say if his responsibilities would change.
1035P: (735P Pacific Time): Steve Cohen, NYU, author, "Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives," re the Obama embassy to Moscow, re meeting with Medvedev. .
1050P: (750P Pacific Time) continued, re what does Putin want?
1105P: (805P Pacific Time): Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re North Korea threatens to attack the US, Kim fires Scuds.
1120P: (820P Pacific Time): continued with LArry Johnson, No Quarter, re Honsiuras as well as North Korea and Burma.
1135P: (835P Pacific Time): Claire Shipman, Kattt Kay, authors, "Womenomics, Write Your Own Rules for Success, How to Stop Juggling and Struggling and Finally Start Living and Working the Way You Really Want."
1150P: (850P Pacific Time): Mick Crozier, KFI, re Michael Jackson rallies and wakes in LA; Bret Pulley, Bloomberg, re Jackson Will Filed in Californa, setting up battle.
1205P: (905 Pacific Time): Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, re the discoveries of pharmaceuticals at Michael Jackson's home in LA and what they represent.
1220P: (920 Pacific Time): Leslie Hook, Asia Wall Street Journal, re China backs down on the Green Dam censor software, why?
1235P: (935P Pacific Time): Archie Brown, author, "The Rise and Fall of Communism," re a sweeping and lively reporting on the 17 countries that suffered the road to Communism.
1255P: (950P Pacific Time): Joseph Sternberg, Europe Wall Street Journal, from Brussels, re China retaliates in the chicken wars, banning US chicken imports, the WTO ignored.
Yes JB,
The question is NOT Healthcare;
it's the ECONOMY..e.g. Mortgages, CREDIT SCORES.
For many years the credit card/bank credit criteria was a joke.
Only now....it's hilarious!
The robber barons are all using our money to screw us royally.
I can't wait for the commercial real estate market to collapse.
Seems everyone is on sedatives today.
Will we all wake up?
Where is the money?Yes! the TARP MONEY
OhMiGod! Federal housing inspectors ??!
They are coming at us from so many directions that we don't have a clue to which end is up...evidently a very well contrived plan.
And they called it a "coup" in Latin America this week ...seems we've had ours already.
JB; I really enjoyed your insight into your Dad's profile, the war years etc., brief but it painted a wonderful picture of a man much like my Dad (WWII,B-17s, POW etc.in his case) please read "Shot from the Sky"; Naval Press, Annapolis Md.
It is his story, here's another:
Grandpa came from Europe as a young person, as did Grandma.
When Mom was 7 years old, she recalls, he sat her on his knee and told her this:
"Someday this country will be Socialist".
I'd say he "nailed" it.
I, for one, am voting for Sarah.
And I don't give a hoot about what the commentators/readers on the Daily Beast say!
GO SARAH GO!