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Flu Or No Flu, Health Sec’s Nomination Will Still Require 60 Votes, GOP Says | The Plum Line »
Posted by: david_nwpa 6 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
So Kathleen Sebelius will get her confirmation vote as Health and Human Services secretary tomorrow in the Senate; but even with the flu outbreak, her ...
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Yahoo Gives In to Microsoft, Gives Up on Search - BusinessWeek »
Posted by: y_soitenly 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
In a long-awaited pairing aimed at taking on Google, Yahoo will handle ad sales while Microsoft gets the real prize: data on who's doing ...
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Madoff arrives at courthouse for plea hearing »
Posted by: Beau7890 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Angry investors rubbed shoulders with busy lawyers and dozens of photographers outside the US district court in Manhattan early Thursday morning, shortly before Bernard Madoff ...
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ABC News: Wall Street Tumbles as Obama Takes Office »
Posted by: y_soitenly 10 months ago in Business & Finance
NEW YORK (AP) -- The dawn of the Obama presidency could not shake Wall Street Tuesday from its dejection over the banking industry's growing problems ...
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First Madoff Interview: Can't Believe I Got Away with It »
Posted by: tehranchik 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
In his first prison interview, a buff-looking Bernie Madoff said he couldn't believe he got away with his massive Ponzi scheme for so long ...
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SEC charges Countrywide's Angelo Mozilo with fraud »
Posted by: engineer 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday filed securities fraud charges against former Countrywide Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo and two other former executives.
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SEC charges Madoff-linked firm, adviser with fraud »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 5 months ago in Business & Finance
Federal regulators filed securities fraud charges Monday against a prominent California investment adviser and a New York brokerage firm said to be secretly controlled by ...
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CFO Death Only Clouds Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae Further »
Posted by: rumple4skin 7 months ago in Business & Finance
If you thought that things could not get much stranger at Freddie Mac or at Fannie Mae, they may have taken an even stranger turn ...
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U.S. SEC eyes volatility in high-frequency trading »
Posted by: engineer 3 weeks, 5 days ago in Business & Finance
* Congress to probe high-frequency trading Wednesday
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* Discussion paper expected by December at the earliest
U.S. regulators looking into high-frequency trading have asked the
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SEC going to trial against BofA over bonuses »
Posted by: Progressive 2 months ago in Business & Finance
The government said Monday it has decided to go to trial against Bank of America Corp. a week after a judge's stinging rejection of ...
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Wall Street's Naked Swindle : Rolling Stone »
Posted by: berkeley 3 weeks, 5 days ago in Business & Finance
The nation's largest financial players are able to write the rules for own their businesses and brazenly steal billions under the noses of regulators ...
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Facebook, Twitter and peers for sale - privately by AP: Yahoo! Tech »
Posted by: y_soitenly 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Scott Painter makes his living betting on startup companies, having played a role in launching 29 of them over the years. But with the bad ...
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Stanford: I would die and go to hell........... »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has given ABC News his first interview since being charged by the SEC with orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme. And he ...
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5 Biggest Banks Are Dead Men Walking: Report »
Posted by: y_soitenly 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
WASHINGTON ? America's five largest banks, which already have received $145 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars, still face potentially catastrophic losses from exotic investments if ...
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Greenspan: Higher inflation to warrant double-digit rates in future »
Posted by: y_soitenly 10 months ago in Business & Finance
Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan predicts in a new book out Monday that the Fed will have to raise interest rates to double-digit levels in ...
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