State Farm posts loss, sees net worth drop 16% in 2008
Chicago Tribune, United States
Although the company's smaller segments reported mixed results, the big property-claims losses dominated State Farm's bottom line, and 2008's $542 million net loss snapped what had been a five-year skein of profitable years for the Downstate insurer.
State Farm sees record drop in net worth Crain’s Chicago Business
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Big Dividends, in a Dangerous Terrain
New York Times, United States
“Look at the historically low interest rates, and things like money market funds and what they’re paying,” said Tom Lydon, the editor of ETF Trends and author of “iMoney: Profitable ETF Strategies for Every Investor.” “If you have the staying power and …

To Create Jobs Quickly, Capitalize Small Business Lenders
Seeking Alpha, NY
… structural features, that have worked for decades at protecting private investor capital, would do the same for the government’s money, and incentivize a profitable outcome (something we probably will not see from most of the TARP investments). …

Buffett's paper losses pile up
CNNMoney.com
Buffett wrote last year that this portfolio — comprising some $7 billion of contracts that require Berkshire to pay if companies in various high-yield bond indexes experience credit losses — looked likely to be profitable on an investment basis. …
Buffett has some explaining to do Financial Post
The 2009 Warren Watch Omaha World-Herald
Berkshire has worst year, Buffett still optimistic The Associated Press
San Diego Union Tribune - USA Today
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Obama Pushes Energy as Key to Economic Future
Cabot Wealth Advisory, MA
Cabot Green Investor , launched in January 2008, takes Cabot's growth stock picking and market timing system and applies it to profitable investments in companies providing alternative, planet-friendly products and services that help conserve the …

Barron's: The Smart Way To Play The Green Revolution
CattleNetwork.com, KS
"All are profitable, old-line industrials projecting double-digit growth in 2009 and trying to reinvent themselves," says Ed Mitby, an analyst at Van Eck Associates. But we consider ABB, Waste Management, FPL, Jacobs and Eaton a sort of green dream …
Testimony of John D. Podesta at Vice President Biden's Middle … American Progress Action Fund
Law energizes renewable power companies as they await portion of $43B Sacramento Business Journal
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Obama on his budget: Hard choices ahead
USA Today
Because our future depends on our ability to break free from oil that's controlled by foreign dictators, we need to make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. That's why we'll be working with Congress on legislation that places a …
Video: Obama budget sees soaring deficit france24english
Who Will Pay For Obama's Plans? Forbes
Comment by Frances Beinecke President, Natural Resources Defense Council
Khabrein.info
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Gregg aided former base as he invested there
The Associated Press
Gregg took in at least $240017 and possibly as much as $651801 from the investments between 1999 and 2007 in rent and capital gains, according to his Senate filings. He said it was too soon to say if the real estate deals will be profitable: "That's …

Sears Chairman: Co Well Positioned To Operate Through Tough Econ
CNNMoney.com
(SHLD) shareholders, Chairman Edward S. Lampert said the company remains highly profitable, has a strong financial condition and has significant credit availability. "I believe that we are well positioned now at Sears Holdings to operate through a …
Sears Chairman Unleashes 15-Page Manifesto About Um, Everything The Consumerist
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Norway, the most profitable investment so far in 2009
Finanzas.com, Spain
According to JP Morgan, “as with other highly-profitable currencies, the change in the interest rate cycle in Norway has given an additional stimulus to the liquidation of the long positions. The weakness has been especially severe against the yen and …