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See where the banks are failing and the foreclosure rate by state

See where the banks are failing and the foreclosure rate by state

CNN.com has a new and interactive-ish  map that lets you see the foreclosure rate by state as well as bank failure rates by state. It appears as though the Sunshine State leads the country in foreclosures.
Florida’s foreclosure rate is 7.32% followed by Nevada at 5.58%

http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/bank_failures/index.htm

Quiznos fails at “Million Subs” giveaway.

Sandwich shop Quiznos put on a promotion to give away “a million subs” where the customer goes on itswebsite and signs up with their name and email address and a coupon is sent to their inbox.  The coupon says “must show I.D.” and it is …

Hosting

When you start up your website, you really should look into doing some kind of hosting feature that will allow someone to come in and tweak your site to however you see fit.
Tweaking the site will not only make it look better, but added functionality …

GM posts $9.6 billion 4q loss

GM posted another loss of $9.6 billion for the fourth quarter totaling over $30 billion for the year. They are also burning through the “loan” that the government gave them.
The nation’s biggest domestic automaker said Thursday it lost $30.9 billion for the full year and …

More people were laid off last month than were expected.

New jobless claims have jumped in the last week by 667,000. The number is an unexpected rise considering last weeks’ numbers were 631,000.
The Labor Department said Thursday that first-time requests for unemployment benefits jumped to 667,000 from the previous week’s figure of 631,000. Analysts had …