Posts Tagged ‘USA’

A MIDDLE-AGED man felt chest pains. As an executive at IBM, an information-technology firm, he had excellent health insurance, so he went straight to a specialist. His cardiologist put him through a bunch of tests, including a computerised tomography scan. A radiologist noticed something odd in his neck, so he went to a neck surgeon, [...]

I know; I haven’t updated this blog in more than two weeks. I got myself wrapped up in too many projects at the same time. I promise I’ll be better in the near future.
I just wanted to share a very interesting article I just read with you: Reporting Requirements for US Taxpayers with Offshore Companies. [...]

I recently stumbled across this very good “It’s time to feel better” campaign launched by CIGNA in the US of A back in July. It apparently has been quite successful and CIGNA is now preparing to launch phase two in the coming months.
The concept is simple. The “It’s time to feel better” website host a [...]

Very interesting analysis from the Credit Agricole on the US real estate situation. You can read it by following this link: Eco News Crise immobilière aux Etats-Unis. Unfortunately it is French speaking only. An extract hereafter:
Traditionnellement, le retournement du cycle de crédit et son corollaire, la correction immobilière, s’engagent dans le sillage de la remontée [...]

I just stumbled upon a very interesting graph on the US housing bubble taken from an August 2006 New York Times article: Read Between All Those For-Sale Signs. The articles is retrospectively very interesting, and hit a few nails on their head. The intro is particularly inspiring to me:
Real bubbles pop. They are fully formed [...]