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Continental Congress 2009

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The Examiner

Congress put American taxpayers on the hook for $700 billion last year when it approved the massive bailout to paper over imprudent lending decisions of nine Wall Street giants: Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs

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The Humble Libertarian HT Liberty Pulse

The entire argument for the trillion dollar stimulus package that passed into law back in February, was that even though it would dry up productive capital and result in a net loss to the economy over the long run, in the short run it would create mu

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The Business Insider

The big event for the day will be the announcement of US auction sizes for next week. RBS economists estimate that we'll see $44bn in 2 years, $41bn in 5-years, $30bn in 7 years, and $7bn in a 5 year TIPS reopening which would all be a $1bn upsizes v

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The Business Insider

The stories about a return to bubble-era lending standards are getting too depressing to bear. There are the no-down payment loans backed by the USDA, the FHA mortgage worth more than 110% of the value of the home, and now this: babies buying home

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Roll Call

It looks like another stimulus package. It sounds like a stimulus package. It spends like a stimulus package. Her economic advisers are even calling it another stimulus. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insists her plans for a host of new spending

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McClatchey

A key House of Representatives committee is set to vote soon on legislation that would overhaul financial regulation and produce greater transparency for investors, but as it's now written it fails to address many of the credit-rating agency misstep

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Google

Yet the AMA won't yet pledge support for the major health care bill that is the chief objective of the White House and congressional Democrats, despite a request that several officials say was made at a meeting last week with Senate Majority Leader H

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The Business Insider

It's back! You see, we've always just assumed that after experiencing an epic hangover following the housing party, there'd be no way we'd rush headlong into the same bubble right away.But we were wrong -- the housing bubble is back. Sure, prices ar

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Ron Paul/Politico HT Liberty Pulse

The continuing financial crisis has made clear to many people the deep problems that exist within our financial system. One of the key decisions to be made in any of the reform proposals floating around deals with the Federal Reserve System and its p

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The Market Ticker

Gee, who saw this one? Anyway, the point stands. The FDIC is clearly out of money, and this is nothing more than yet another legalized accounting fraud game, where they'll get "the money" now but allow the banks to "recognize" that "charge" over

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The Business Insider

However, the maximum fine for those who refuse to purchase health insurance is $750. [2] Even factoring in government subsidies, the cost of purchasing a plan is much more than $750. The result: many people, especially the young and healthy, will s

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You Tube

I posted these videos to show the corruption however the speaker's assumptions of how to handle it is something I think we would all totally disagree with. You don't give more power to those who already helped make this disaster!

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The Business Insider

Incompetence plus ideology equals bankruptcy. The FHA still backs toxic mortgages The FHA's mission is political: it is still trying to "expand home ownership.The discredited ideology of home ownership is the most toxic ideologogy since communism.

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Yahoo

A celebrated Goldman Sachs partner, Gus Levy, coined the maxim that long defined the bank, the savviest and most influential firm on Wall Street: “Greedy, but long-term greedy.”

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Boston.com

- Hedge fund managers - a secretive, lightly regulated group portrayed by some as villains in last year’s financial meltdown - appear to have a new degree of clout on Capitol Hill in shaping legislation that will determine how they will be regulated.

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