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Op-Ed Columnist - Tiger Woods, Person of the Year - NYTimes.comAS we say farewell to a dreadful year and decade, this much we can agree upon: The person of the year is not Ben Bernanke, no matter how insistently Time magazine tries to hype him into its pantheon. The Fed chairman was just as big a schnook as every other magical thinker in Washington and on ...
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Naked access now 38 percent of U.S. trading: report | ReutersA report says that 38 percent of all U.S. stock trading is now done by firms that have "naked sponsored access" to markets, the controversial trading practice said to imperil the marketplace, and which faces a regulatory crackdown. Naked access gives trading firms, using brokers' licenses, ...
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Mike Papantonio: GOP Purity Test Echoes Berlin in 1933The last time we saw a political party demand ideological purity was Berlin 1933. It did not end well. One GOP candidate who obviously felt foolish endorsing this new political purity was Dede Scozzafava. She was the Republican that tea partiers forced out of the race in the 23rd Congressional ...
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Fed Needs To 'Start Giving A Red Hot Damn About The American Public,' Says Sen. WhitehouseTwo days before Ben Bernanke's confirmation hearing, most Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee are withholding judgment, waiting to hear directly from the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Given the depth of the ongoing economic crisis, the hearing promises to be a lively one, as senators ...
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No Recession Special On The D.C. Power Lunch MenuThere's no recession special on the menu at D.C.'s hottest power lunch spots. At a time of double-digit unemployment, when one in eight Americans is on food stamps, the bistros and steakhouses that serve the Capitol crowd seem to to be doing fine -- with no reduction in business and no fewer ...
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Leo W. Gerard: Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off ShoreIt turns out a Texas windmill farm developer's request last month for nearly half a billion dollars in stimulus funds to create 2,000 jobs in China doesn't rank first on the audacity scale. Shockingly for American taxpayers, and sadly for the staggering 10.2 percent of Americans who are ...
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Changes to USPS Letters to Santa program upend charities' plans - Yahoo! NewsA US Postal Service revision to its decades-old Letters to Santa program has some charities scurrying to figure out if and how they can continue giving to needy people who write in to ask for help. Take organizers of a holiday benefit at Chicago's famed Second City theater. For each of the past ...
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FAA says flight computers working again - News- msnbc.comThe computer glitch that caused flight cancellations and delays around the country Thursday has been fixed, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their travel plans Thursday after an FAA computer problem caused problems for the second time in 15 months....
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I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman SachsNumber 85 Broad Street, a dull, rust-coloured office block in lower Manhattan, doesn’t look like a place to stop and stare, and that’s just the way the people who work there like it. The men and women who arrive in the watery dawn sunshine, dressed in Wall Street black, clutching black ...
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OpEdNews - by Harvey Wasserman: For Obama it's one (term) if by war, two if by peaceNovember 17, 2009 at 07:51:50 For Obama it's one (term) if by war, two if by peace By Harvey Wasserman ( about the author ) Page 1 of 2 page(s) For OpEdNews: Harvey Wasserman - Writer Source: The Free Press November 16, 2009 As the world awaits Barack Obama's decision on ...
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