{"id":1994,"date":"2009-01-29T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2009-01-29T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T05:00:15","slug":"links-for-january-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/links-for-january-28th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for January 28th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for January 28th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aBB_7r416_K4\">U.S. Injects $1 Billion Into Credit Unions as Losses From Mortgages Mount<\/a> &#8211; Where is all the money coming from? Ooohhh this is going to hurt!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123318934318826787.html\">Chinese Premier Blames Recession on U.S. Actions &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao squarely blamed the U.S.-led financial system for the world&#39;s deepening economic slump, in the most public indication yet of discord between the U.S. and its largest creditor.\n<p>Leaders in China, the world&#39;s third-largest economy, have been surprised and upset over how much the problems of the U.S. financial sector have hurt China&#39;s holdings. In response, Beijing is re-examining its U.S. investments, say people familiar with the government&#39;s thinking.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid=%7B4E94976D-522B-4855-90AB-0961AF808892%7D&amp;siteid=rss\">Fed readies plan to help consumers get more credit-card debt<\/a> &#8211; I want mine!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid={F9F52B09-05ED-4C84-9CA6-71FB4FAB7CF8}&amp;siteid=rss\">Low yields force Treasury money-market funds to bar new investors<\/a> &#8211; This is really interesting. Will they open back up if\/when the rates come back??? Investors not have limited choices to protect their cash brokerage positions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid=%7BF9F52B09-05ED-4C84-9CA6-71FB4FAB7CF8%7D&amp;siteid=rss\">Treasury Money Market Funds Close Doors<\/a> &#8211; Treasury money market funds have closed to new investment due to low yields that can&#39;t cover expenses.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid=%7B47EFDC25-7458-4B2C-BF99-999465950EA0%7D&amp;siteid=rss\">Consumer Confidence Drifting<\/a> &#8211; Consumer&#39;s have once again expressed their lack of confidence in the market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for January 27th through January 28th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aBB_7r416_K4\">U.S. Injects $1 Billion Into Credit Unions as Losses From Mortgages Mount<\/a> &#8211; Where is all the money coming from? Ooohhh this is going to hurt!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123318934318826787.html\">Chinese Premier Blames Recession on U.S. Actions &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao squarely blamed the U.S.-led financial system for the world&#39;s deepening economic slump, in the most public indication yet of discord between the U.S. and its largest creditor.\n<p>Leaders in China, the world&#39;s third-largest economy, have been surprised and upset over how much the problems of the U.S. financial sector have hurt China&#39;s holdings. In response, Beijing is re-examining its U.S. investments, say people familiar with the government&#39;s thinking.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid=%7B4E94976D-522B-4855-90AB-0961AF808892%7D&amp;siteid=rss\">Fed readies plan to help consumers get more credit-card debt<\/a> &#8211; I want mine!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid={F9F52B09-05ED-4C84-9CA6-71FB4FAB7CF8}&amp;siteid=rss\">Low yields force Treasury money-market funds to bar new investors<\/a> &#8211; This is really interesting. Will they open back up if\/when the rates come back??? Investors not have limited choices to protect their cash brokerage positions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid=%7BF9F52B09-05ED-4C84-9CA6-71FB4FAB7CF8%7D&amp;siteid=rss\">Treasury Money Market Funds Close Doors<\/a> &#8211; Treasury money market funds have closed to new investment due to low yields that can&#39;t cover expenses.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid=%7B47EFDC25-7458-4B2C-BF99-999465950EA0%7D&amp;siteid=rss\">Consumer Confidence Drifting<\/a> &#8211; Consumer&#39;s have once again expressed their lack of confidence in the market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,262],"tags":[218,483],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","category-recentreads","tag-linkfest","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}