Archive for January 23, 2012
January 23, 2012 | 
Author Newt Gingrich’s consulting firm worked for Freddie Mac in 2006 and was paid $25,000 a month, according to a document released Monday. The release came in response to accusations from the presidential candidate’s critics charging that he lobbied on behalf of the government-backed mortgage finance firm, which many say is partly to blame for the housing crisis. The document, made public by the Gingrich Group, the firm Gingrich founded in 2000, covers only 2006. The firm provided consulting services to Freddie Mac for roughly six years in total.
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A record number ETFs entered the market in 2011, but the number of funds struggling to survive is also at a record high, a sign that the that hip and trendy ETF market may be reaching a tipping point.
As regulators and attorneys general continue a year-long push to deliver help for homeowners, some left-leaning groups on Monday warned against any deal that protects banks against lawsuits.
Newt Gingrich is the latest Republican candidate to challenge the conventional wisdom that Mitt Romney is destined to capture his party’s nomination.
The American Bus Association is asking that Priceline pull an ad that shows its longtime spokesman William Shatner dying in a fiery bus explosion, saying that it believes the ad is in bad taste.
Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have a message for Google: “Don’t be evil.”
Listen up, beer lovers — you may soon be able to get your suds in grande form. At Starbucks. Starbucks said Monday that it would begin offering beer and wine at select locations in Atlanta and Southern California by the end of this year, to go along with several locations in the Chicago area that have previously been announced. Starbucks began the initiative in the Pacific Northwest in late 2010. “As our customers transition from work to home, many are looking for a warm and inviting place to unwind and connect with the people they care about,” Clarice Turner, Starbucks’ senior vice president for U.S. operations, said in a statement.
San Diego Gas & electrical has launched the "Green Button," a new tool that will provide customers with easy access to their energy usage data.
Today San Diego Gas & electrical has launched the "Green Button," a new tool that will provide customers with easy access to their energy usage data.
SDG&E customers are now among the first in the nation to be able to download their energy usage data in a simple-to-read format and share it with third-parties for energy evaluation and analysis.
Stand-alone and utility-interactive, wind turbines rated 100kW or less are an increasingly important part of today’s renewable energy picture.
Enormous wind farms, with individual machines rated in excess of 1MW, have dominated media coverage over the last several years, just as these huge turbines dominate the high plains and ridges across the country. But recently there has been a resurgence of interest in small wind turbines as well.
Hedge fund Diamondback Capital has agreed to pay $9 million to settle insider trading charges announced last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday.
