Archive for the ‘Economy/Jobs/Taxes/Trade’ Category
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SBA To Get Emergency Cash Infusion
Stimulus II: Congress Ponders Aid For Cash-Strapped States
Senators Seek To Extend Renewable Grant Program
Credit Card Has Eyebrow Raising 79.9% Interest Rate!!!
Senate Likely to Back Wrap-up Bill
Justice Department Appeals Ruling Allowing Federal Funding for ACORN
EU Extends Penalty Taxes on China, Vietnamese shoes
Report: Stimulus Funds Not Targeted to States That Need Jobs
Looking for Compromise in Dire Economic Straits
Federal Salaries Targeted as Private Sector Pay Stagnates
Dems go after three more on Regulatory Reform Bill with automated calls
Analysts Caution US Banking Crisis May Not Be Over
McCain: Bring Back Depression Banking Rules
Expert: Rates to Soar on Huge US Debt
Central Banks Loading Up On Gold
Greenspan: Must Stop Federal Spending Now
DISHING OUT SOME SHOCK ON DEBT
FED WORKERS OWE BILLIONS IN TAXES!
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Glimmer of hope as the number who claim benefits start to fall
Treasury backs out of plans to sell Citi stake
House narrowly passes Pelosi’s $174 Billion Jobs Bill
As Banks repay loan, Treasury to ask how Bailout Money spent
Weekly Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly to 480,000
Sorkin:Â Powerful Few Saw This Crash Coming
VOLKER:Â FINANCIAL INNOVATION DISASTROUS!
Dubai Official:Â Our Economic Crisis is over
Greek Premier:Â I’ll Fix Economy No Matter What
Banking Committee Approves Bernanke for Second Term 16-7
Van Hollen says Dems will Harness Economy as an issue in 2010
REPORT:Â DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS RECEIVED NEARLY TWICE THE AMOUNT OF STIMULUS FUNDS AS GOP DISTRICTS
Roach: Fed May Cause Another Crisis
It’s Payback Time!
Fannie, Freddie Halt Holiday Foreclosures
US National Debt Tops Debt Limit
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Obama likely to sign $1.1 Trillion Omnibus with 5,224 Earmarks, Taxpayer Funded Abortions
Debt Crisis portends liberalism’s end
Lawmakers Fine Dining on Taxpayers tab
Citi got Huge Tax Break to repay Bailout
US gave up billions in tax money in deal for Citigroup’s bailout repayment
Swonk:Â Credit Crunch is Strangling Recovery
Debt-limit increase approved in close vote
House passes Defense Bill 395-3
Is Soverign Debt the new Subprime?
Federal Audit Agency says States have only spent 1/4 of Funds set aside for them in Stimulus
FOMC Hails Economy; No Change in Rates
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Beware the Greeks
D-Day Defense cut in 36 Billion crisis
Government aims to ensure Rothschild is caught in bonus tax
Abu Dhabi lifeline for Dubai buoys markets
HUD Secretary Navigates the Housing Crisis
New TARP? Only this bypasses even Congress
Washington hands out $15 Million in bonuses!
No-Show Bankers illustrate Washington’s weakness
They can’t even run a Conference, let alone the Global Economy
52% Oppose Further Regulation of US Financial System
Obama likely to sign $1.1 Trillion Omnibus, with 5,224 Earmarks
Pelosi’s Jobs Bill by State of the Union
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Consolidated Spending Bill – $9,500 per Family
The Feds Money Monopoly
Obama Slams ‘Fat Cat’ Bankers on eve of Meeting
Tories will force all MPs and peers to pay tax in Britain
US inquiry into sale of Virgin Galactic stake to Arab Investor
Citigroup puts on globes for fight with Terra Firma
Obama voices frustration at opposition to bank reforms
Spending Folly
UK:Â Treasury rewriting Britain’s tax laws to accommodate Sharia Finance
Dubai gets $10 Billion from Abu Dhabi to cover debt
Obama to Grill Fat Cats
Future Markets betting on Democrats
Analyst:Â Greece, Ireland may leave Euro
Obama admonishes top bankers to step up economic recovery
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$11 billion in disclosed earmarks expected in fiscal year of 2010
Obama lauds financial overhaul, ‘good signs’ for US economy
IRS hires hundreds for new ‘Wealth Unit’
D-Day nears for Dubai’s $3.5 Billion debt hurdle
Obama’s economic team confident for a better year ahead
McCain calls out earmarks in omnibus
Wasted US Spending in Iraq: $53 BILLION and counting
Must US Taxpayers pay for Iraqi Electricity?
Senate passes $1.1 trillion spending measure
Conservatives replaced Baucus in the lead on regulatory overhaul
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With eye to 2010 Election, Dems prepare to raise US Borrowing Limit to nearly $2 TRILLION
Obama blames GOP for Economy
Soros:Â Financial Reforms bound to be wrong
Greece? Dubai? US Bankruptcy will be the biggest of all
Watchdogs Say Bank Bailout Funds cannot pay for Obama’s Jobs Program
FINANCIAL CRISIS INVESTIGATION
Pelosi’s Spendapalooza
Principles that should have guided TARP
Treasury lays out new pay guidelines at bail-out firms
Should Obama focus on black jobless rate?
GOP urges Obama to move on trio pacts!
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Liberals say bill falls short on job-creation measures
House Dems reach deal on regulatory reform
Dubai’s golden sands lose their lustre
Job Creation for Dummies
How to create jobs without really trying
Rogoff:Â Things will get worse
Chamber pushes Dems to cut new financial regulator’s powers
Regulators fight over $125MÂ in loan fraud
US Debt to reach $50 Trillion by 2030
Pelosi: House intends to raise Debt Ceiling
House Democrats pass $447B omnibus
MPs exposed for continuing to milk expenses
Gilts fall over fears for public debt outlook
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Senate Democrats threaten to clip Obama’s credit card
Geithner to extend Bailout till October
UK Announces 50% tax on Bankers Bonuses
Congress Readies Huge Year-End Spending Bill
Barack Obama puts $200B to work on new deal for the unemployed
Documents showed earlier Dubai World Bailout!
Stimulus 3.0?
House of Debt
Bernanke poisoning US Economy
Treasury extends TARP
$446.8B ‘minibus’ moves forward
Hoyer says Congress would have to pass new law to use Bank Bailout Money
Transportation Secretary Boasts that He has already most of his Stimulus Money
Experts:Â Greece going bankrupt could doom Euro
THE MEDIA’SÂ 10 WORST ECONOMIC MYTHS OF 2009

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