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Proposed Wall Street bailout to cost $700 billion »
Posted by: ameliog 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
Senior Democrats signalled hard bargaining ahead on the Bush administration’s proposed $700bn bailout for the country’s financial institutions as officials met members of ...
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McCain's Campaign Manager Made Nearly $2 Million To Defend Mortgage Giants »
Posted by: Aidenag 1 year, 2 months ago in Political News
Senator John McCain' s campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up ...
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Congress to Wall Street: 'Curb excessive pay and perks' »
Posted by: ameliog 1 year, 2 months ago in News
Perhaps no issue so roils the American public – deeply divided over proposed rescue plans for US financial markets – than the prospect of high-flying CEOs walking ...
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Why is John McCain wrong on health care? Think credit cards. »
Posted by: Aidenag 1 year, 2 months ago in Political News
Why do most of us send our credit-card bills to South Dakota or Delaware? The answer to that seemingly arcane question illustrates the dangers of ...
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Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer »
Posted by: Beau7890 1 year ago in News
In the parade of regulators that missed signals or made decisions they came to regret on the road to the current financial crisis, the Office ...
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Obama Deregulation Promotes Union Corruption »
Posted by: politicaljoe 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Obama’s labor initiative gives union leaders a blank check to commit fraud and engage in corruption by removing mandatory fiscal record keeping and reporting ...
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Essay: The Faces of the Financial Crisis »
Posted by: jovial 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
The U.S. financial system faces a grave crisis as investment giants teeter on the edge of collapse. These institutions aren't merely made of ...
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Agency’s ’04 Rule Let Banks Pile Up New Debt, and Risk »
Posted by: engineer 1 year, 1 month ago in Business & Finance
Many events in Washington, on Wall Street and elsewhere around the country have led to what has been called the most serious financial crisis since ...
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How Obama Will Change Home Energy in America | Electricity Deregulation Blog »
Posted by: MiamiOnline 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
President Obama’ s initiative on alternative energy offers great opportunity for economic development. Renewable forms of energy or clean tech and green tech are going ...
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Absence of Leadership »
Posted by: Beau7890 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
It took President Bush until Wednesday night to address the American people about the nation' s financial crisis, and pretty much all he had to ...
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Mitch Schnurman: Texas Gov. Rick Perry still clings to the same economic talking points »
Posted by: MiamiOnline 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The Texas governor offered his vision for the state last week, and his address to lawmakers sounded like something out of 2004.
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Consumers must spend some energy to avoid being ripped off | Electricity Deregulation Blog »
Posted by: MiamiOnline 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
I was a dope. I was a sucker, an easy mark, a bird on the ground. I got taken by a retail electric company.
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McCain's Plan For Health Care Reform: Make It More Like The Financial Industry »
Posted by: Aidenag 1 year, 2 months ago in Political News
So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize ...
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Commodities Head for Biggest Weekly Decline in Over 50 Years »
Posted by: ameliog 1 year, 1 month ago in Business & Finance
Oil, copper, and corn drove commodities toward their biggest weekly decline in more than 50 years on concern that the worst financial crisis since the ...
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Protestors Lash Out At Bailout Plan »
Posted by: ameliog 1 year, 2 months ago in Political News
At rallies large and small around the country, taxpayers speak out about the Bush administration's economic rescue plan.
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