December 2008
53 posts
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Home prices may rise on mortgage refinancing boom →
Dec 24th
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“Zoos, the bicycle industry and advocates of beach replenishment share something...”
– full story
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Retailers Want In on Stimulus Plan →
Dec 24th
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Consumer Spending
Bloomberg: Declines Less Than Forecast Reuters: Comsumers Close Wallets as Job Market Darkens
Dec 24th
Bad Times: NYT Says Revenue Fell 13.9% Last Month →
Dec 24th
Blumenthal May Investigate Charities Ripped Off By... →
Dec 23rd
Developers say 'me too' to bailout →
Dec 23rd
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Dec 20th
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War: Dems say Gov. Blago cold and remote →
Dec 20th
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In one of his last acts as president, George W. Bush on Friday handed his successor an enormous new role in shaping the U.S. automotive industry, power the president-elect will also inherit over other sectors, from banking to insurance to housing.
Dec 20th
Where Policy Makers Are Born  →
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
Mark Felt, the FBI official who as the anonymous...
Dec 19th
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“Blagojevich to hold 2 p.m. news conference”
Dec 19th
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Obama Labor Pick: Media Must Be Held 'Accountable'
“I don’t know that we’re really trying to shape it [new coverage]. I think what we’re saying is be balanced about it. Show the other side of the evidence and report accurately and I think that’s where we’re really going with. Why don’t we see more Latinos in the media? Why don’t you see any other commentators that can talk about our positive experience?” President Elect Barack Obama...
Dec 19th
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“New regulations are likely to fall on financial institutions currently seeking...”
– Wall Street Journal
Dec 19th
Dec 19th
Pet lovers protest cats on the menu in China →
Dec 19th
Palin won't accept raise →
Dec 19th
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WikiLeaks Posts Technical Details of Bomb-Stopping... →
Dec 19th
Coleman's lead down to 2 votes in Minn. →
Dec 19th
“Foreign governments directly donated at least $41 million.”
– Bill Clinton: Bought and paid for
Dec 18th
Dec 18th
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Sam Donaldson on Blago: Where's the Evidence? →
Dec 18th
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"Alice in Wonderland" Impeachment hearing resumes... →
Dec 18th
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Car Czar could distribute parts of Chrysler to UAW →
 One way in which Cerberus might make concessions, however, could be to give away some of its principals’ stakes in Chrysler as part of a broader restructuring. That could mean giving a future government auto czar discretion to distribute Cerberus’ stake to the United Auto Workers union or even to GM.
Dec 18th
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Ohio snooper who targeted Joe the Plumber resigns →
Dec 18th
Calif. Dems try to pass budget without GOP votes →
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
“The Star Tribune has logged 391 challenges made by the Franken campaign.”
– http://senaterecount.startribune.com/ballots/
Dec 18th
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Live Video of the Minnesota Recount
See it here.
Dec 18th
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CNN: Jesse Jackson, Jr working with the feds for a... →
Dec 17th
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Feds Seize New York Office Building Tied to... →
Dec 17th
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Mortgage applications climb 2.9 percent →
Dec 17th
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Unprecedented: Will the Fed buy corporate debt?
“I’m hard-pressed to believe that I will live to see a press conference where the Fed says it is buying junk bonds outright. But that may come to pass — we’ve been through so much that’s been unthinkable,” Atkins said. “We’re set for another big test of confidence, and how the regulators respond to that is an open-ended question.” (Full Story)
Dec 17th
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“U.S. corporate bonds are staging an unexpected rally in the final days of the...”
– http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1731654220081217
Dec 17th
1911 Liberty Eagle gold coin worth around $1,000 found in Salvation Army kettle.
Dec 17th
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Study: Potential Big 3 Job Losses Vastly Overblown →
Dec 17th
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Drudge:
Illinois Supreme Court refuses to hear motion to declare Blagojevich unfit to serve…
Dec 17th
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WaPo: Only Positive Obama Ads, Please →
Dec 17th
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Time for Apple Fans to Freak Out? →
Dec 17th
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Oil Drops 8% Dispite Record Supply Cut →
Dec 17th
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Madoff's niece married to former SEC attorney →
Dec 17th
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Vet of famed WWII unit honored on 103rd birthday
Aleksander Szekal, “survived the Soviet Gulag and a famous battle against the Nazis — and was honored on his 103rd birthday this week as the oldest living veteran of a celebrated Polish unit that helped defeat Hitler’s army in Italy.”
Dec 17th
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Put Madoff In Charge of Social Security →
Dec 17th
The three most expensive government entities, in...
DoD, which cost, net, $664.5 billion. HHS, which cost, net, $668.8 billion (HHS’s gross cost was actually higher than the Pentagon’s.) the Social Security Administration, which cost $626.1 billion. For FY 2008, publicly held debt as a percentage of GDP was nearly 41%. The cost for the Medicare Part D perscrption drug program declined by $668 million over a year. Corporate tax...
Dec 17th
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The Cost Of Operating Government Triples In A Year →
Most of the increase can be attributed to nearly $550b worth of “post-employment liabilities” — pensions, health benefits — for government employees, mostly veterans, liaibilities that, for some reason, either weren’t estimated properly in 2007 or were simply ignored.
Dec 17th
First Face Transplant in U.S. Performed at... →
Dec 17th
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Blago Set to Break His Silence →
Dec 17th