Articles from December 2008



How to Fix Your Life in 2009

Frugality is, once again, a virtue. To help you settle into this strange new world, WSJ reporters have dug deep into their beats to offer advice that will help you make your dollars work harder.

Insurers Say Fair Value Accounting Was a ‘Powerful Accelerant’ to Credit Crisis (Insurance Journal)

The application of fair value accounting measurements to an inactive, illiquid, and disorderly market for structured credit products helped fuel the worldwide credit crisis, an organization of ...

Lessons From the Madoff Scandal

An alleged fraud like Madoff's Ponzi scheme could have happened to any of us. Lessons to be learned, but not necessarily ones that have been touted by the media.

Consolidate Debt To Create Financial Solutions

A debt management company has the prime purpose to help debt laden individuals or business find their way out of debt. Rather than just extend more credit to the consumer; however, the company instead offers services that enables the consumer to consolidate all outstanding debts

SYS-CON White Paper: Using a Hosted Service for Holistic E-Mail Management (SYS-CON Media)

Increasingly complex messaging requirements characterized by worldwide regulatory, compliance and archiving issues in addition to longstanding security concerns are driving the adoption of holistic email management "from the cloud." Holistic email management solutions from the cloud are hosted services that integrate messaging management with archiving, business continuity and security ...

Big Schemes ‘In The Black’

The retirement savings funds have been unexpectedly buoyed, despite dire performances from equities over the past year.


Current Account Customer has ‘£100bn Overdraft’ Shock

Barclays later blamed the astonishing current account statement on a computer error.


Lack of Internet ‘Costing Families £70 a Month’

Families which have no access to the internet could be missing out on savings of up to £70 a month, according to a new report.