The Home Builders Association of Georgia (HBAG) is launching a fight to regain control of Builders Insurance, which they say is run by a board that has padded its pockets with exorbitant fees.
HBAG consists of more than 13,000 builders statewide. On Thursday, the association issued an urgent call during a meeting at Lake Lanier Islands [...]
Trying to keep Midland ISD on sound financial footing in a time of static state funding is a challenge Executive Director of Business Services David Garcia faces daily.
Garcia gave the last presentation Wednesday to the district’s Key Communicators, a group of residents from across Midland who get a behind-the-scenes look at the district’s operations and [...]
%26#8226; Brad Mortensen has been named vice president for university advancement at Weber State University. Mortensen has served in several roles since arriving at WSU in 2004, most recently as interim vice president for university relations. Prior to joining WSU, Mortensen gained extensive experience in higher education and [...]
Bastiat Society, a Non-profit Foundation, Promotes Free Market Ideas Among Business People
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, April 3, 2008: Emirates Computers today announced that the Bastiat Society (www.bastiatsociety.com), a non profit foundation for spreading free market ideas among business people, has awarded their first-ever Bastiat in Business Award to Kathy Gornik, President and co-Founder of [...]
WASHINGTON–Curbing shady lending practices that contributed to the housing and credit debacles should help revive the badly shaken confidence of the public and investors, a Federal Reserve board member said Thursday. %26quot;Effective consumer protection can help to restore confidence in the mortgage markets and help to preserve the flow of capital to consumers who [...]
TOKYO —
Uncertainty over Japan’s economic outlook is “especially high” right now, a senior central bank official said Thursday.”The BOJ will act in a flexible manner,” Bank of Japan Deputy Gov. Kiyohiko Nishimura also said during a parliamentary session. He said global financial markets are also unstable.
“They are now in a process of risk revaluation,” Nishimura [...]
MILWAUKEE —
After being laid off from her job as an events planner at an upscale resort, Jo Ann Bauer struggled financially. She worked at several lower-paying jobs, relocated to a new city and even declared bankruptcy.Then in December, she finally accepted her parents’ invitation to move into their home — at age 52. “I’m [...]
WASHINGTON —
It’s been almost an article of faith: Any recession this year will be mild and brief. But now the stunning meltdown of a top Wall Street investment bank and stubbornly persistent financial market turbulence has called that into question, raising fears that severe problems in housing and the nation’s bedrock financial system could [...]
JOB CHANGESBen Hartley joined accounting firm Cooper Norman in January. He graduated from Boise State University with a bachelor of business administration degree in 2007. Active in student activities, Hartley was the president of the Beta Alpha Psi, an honorary financial services organization, during his senior year. He was inducted in the Beta Gamma Sigma [...]
A battle is brewing in South Jordan over a sewage pump that residents say will sour their home values.
A group of more than 200 residents are fuming about the South Valley Sewer District’s plans to build a sewer pump near their upscale neighborhood along the [...]
