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06/12/13 - Western Workers Lose Faith in Retirement?
Saving for retirement? We wish we hadn't bothered, say one in 10 ... More than 10pc of people who are saving for retirement wish they hadn't bothered and one in five fears that ... |
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05/28/13 - Brazil's Turn to Bolster African Meme
Brazil Forgives Most of Africa's $900 Million Debt ... The Brazilian government is forgiving or restructuring Africa's almost $900 million debt in an effort to strengthen ... |
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05/27/13 - Demo Against Monsanto
Demo Against Monsanto... Why do we demonstrate? To support organic and small farmers who suffer losses whilst Monsanto patent rights over seeds -To spread awareness about the ... |
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05/17/13 - What TARP Boss Neil Barofsky Told Me Yesterday Should Shock You
The financial news is getting boring. The Dow goes only one way – up. But gold fell below $1,400 per ounce yesterday. Rather than trying to figure it out, yesterday ... |
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02/15/13 - Ed Rendell Calls for Massive Infrastructure New Deal
Rebuilding our economic backbone ... We're getting beat by Estonia. Not that there's anything wrong with the tiny state on the Baltic Sea. But the nation that built the Hoover ... |
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02/12/13 - A Black Box in Every Car - To Make You Safer
Feds Set To Mandate "Black Box" Data Recorders In Every Car And Truck ... Privacy advocates worry, but technology has caught bad drivers lying about accident causes ... ... |
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02/05/13 - Elite Attack on Swiss Again: Raise Taxes for Fairness's Sake
Cantons begin to see downside of low tax rates ... For years they fought to offer the lowest tax rates but now some cantons in central Switzerland are questioning the wisdom of ... |
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01/28/13 - Once More Immigration Reform on the US Federal Agenda, Like a Bad Penny
Senators agree on immigration overhaul plan ... A bipartisan group of senators has agreed on a plan to grant legal status to most of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants ... |
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01/09/13 - Rothschild on Regulation
Sunday Interview: Sir Evelyn de Rothschild: 'To be rather abrupt, I don't think there's been a great change since 2008' One of the great City veterans and scion of the ... |
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11/15/12 - Lloyd Blankfein: Let's All Compromise to Support the Status Quo
Lloyd Blankfein: The Business Plan for American Revival ... There is a huge amount of investible cash that is now sitting on the sidelines, waiting for sensible reforms ... ... |
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10/06/12 - Obama Spin Reveals Elite Roots
We track power elite dominant social themes large and small. As part of this effort, we've uncovered what we believe to be patterns of "directed history" leading toward ... |
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07/20/12 - Success! ... CFPB's 'First Enforcement Action'
Consumer agency fines Capital One for card marketing ... The enforcement action, announced on Wednesday, is the first by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which said it ... |
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07/05/12 - The LIBOR Scandal Is a Sham Engineered by Central Banking Elites?
The Biggest Banking Scam Ever ... British bank Barclays (LSE: BARC.L - news) is dead centre of a storm involving the manipulation of inter-bank lending rates, particularly ... |
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05/30/12 - Merk Sees Easing Around the World, to Benefit of Currencies and Commodities
U.S. Dollar and Euro - Review and Outlook ... Going forward, we consider that central banks around the world are likely to err on the side of further monetary policy easing. ... |
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05/25/12 - Japanese Debt Downgraded by Fitch; No Urgency for Japan (Until Sudden Panic Hits)
With Japan's public debt about to hit 240% of GDP, Fitch Downgrades Japan's Sovereign Rating . The ratings agency Fitch on Tuesday lowered its assessment of Japan's sovereign ... |
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05/22/12 - The Financial Transactions Tax Rolls On
European Parliament Economic Affairs Committee: Financial Transaction Tax Should Be Imposed Even If Certain Member States Oppose It ... A financial transaction tax for Europe ... |
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05/21/12 - As EU Fails, Anarchy Meme Rears Its Ugly Head
EU Risks Moment of Anarchy, Chaos, Breakdown .... George Magnus, a senior economic adviser at UBS AG, discusses the risks facing Europe after the European Central Bank cut ... |
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05/14/12 - Thank Goodness for Regulation
Why We Regulate ... What did JPMorgan actually do? As far as we can tell, it used the market for derivatives — complex financial instruments — to make a huge bet on ... |
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05/09/12 - Catch These Corporate Bribers and Put Them in Jail
Wrangling over anti-bribery law rages on, with top firms facing investigation ... The U.S. anti-bribery law that Wal-Mart may have violated in Mexico has ensnared leading ... |
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05/02/12 - The Obama Recovery Persists At Least Until After the Election ... and Then Watch Out!
U.S. Manufacturing Grows at Fastest Pace in a Year ... Manufacturing grew in April at the fastest pace in almost a year, propelled by a pickup in orders that signaled factories ... |
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04/23/12 - Taxes vs. Fed – What's to Blame?
Ron Paul's analysis is correct ... There is an ongoing argument about higher income tax rates for the top 1 percent of us but that is just a diversion from the real problem. ... |
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04/18/12 - Occupy Wall Street Sees Merit in Current Tax System?
Tax Day Doesn't Belong to the Tea Party Anymore ... Over the past several years, few annual occasions have been more symbolic of the direction of political discussion in our ... |
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04/10/12 - Elites Strike Back Via Roosevelt Institute: Government Isn't Bad; It's Essential
Stiglitz: The Invisible Hand is Invisible Because It Isn't There ... Americans have had it drilled into them that government is bad, but a new narrative is surfacing. Last ... |
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03/16/12 - NYT – India's State-Run Banks Founder
Bad Loans at State-Run Banks Add to India's Woes ... Slow payments to construction companies from the government are adding to the headaches of a slowing economy and a growing ... |
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03/15/12 - Is Regulation Good for You?
The Inherent Tensions of Regulation ... (If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on ... |
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02/24/12 - In Europe and America ... No Retirement! Just Sufferin'
Europe's Banker Talks Tough ... Draghi Says Continent's Social Model Is 'Gone,' Won't Backtrack on Austerity ... European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned beleaguered ... |
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02/23/12 - No Retirement: Misled Baby Boomers May Die at the Office
For boomers, it's a new era of 'work til you drop.' When Paula Symons joined the U.S. workforce in 1972, typewriters in her office clacked nonstop, people answered the ... |
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02/16/12 - Gold Standard Good? ... or Another Power Elite Meme?
Let's return to the gold standard ... It might be said that a simpler approach than Mr. Lehrman's might be the most likely way to get back to a gold standard. The Ron Paul ... |
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02/08/12 - Atlantic Misleads With 'Short History of Money'?
A Short History of American Money, From Fur to Fiat ... What do animal pelts, tobacco, fake wampum, gold, and cotton-paper bank notes have in common? At one point or another, ... |
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01/11/12 - Post Admits Austerity 'Killing' Greece
In Greece, fears that austerity is killing the economy ... Deeply indebted and nearly bankrupt, this Mediterranean nation was forced to adopt tough austerity measures to slash ... |
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01/07/12 - The Insanity of India's Gigantic 'Gujarat Special Investment Region'
Narendra Modi is the megalomaniac current Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat and has embarked on a project called the GIDB Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) ... |
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11/18/11 - Private Law Society
One of the most disturbing points about the current OWS movement is its focus on punishment. "Wall Street," an aggregate community, must be "punished" for aggregate sins. There ... |
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11/11/11 - Mercantilism and the Christmas Tree
Obama Administration to Delay New 15-Cent Christmas Tree Tax The U.S. Department of Agriculture is going to delay implementation and revisit a proposed new 15 cent fee on ... |
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11/07/11 - Zionism as an Elite Promotion or Fashion Statement?
Hate Crimes At Queens Libraries and Jewish Temple ... Survey Finds Anti-Semitic Attitudes Rising ... Swastikas were found painted on the facades of the Jackson Heights and East ... |
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10/21/11 - Great Washington's Blog: REAL Problem Is Mercantilism
If the "Occupy" Movement and Tea Party Join Together, We Can End the Malignant Partnership Between Big Government and Big Corporations ... Mike Krieger writes today: The reason ... |
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10/12/11 - Mr. Washington! ... Fed & Wall Street Are NOT the Same
Protests: Both Conservatives and Liberals Are Right ... Just Looking at Different Sides of the Same Coin ... The Occupy Wall Street protests are obviously targeting Wall ... |
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10/05/11 - Roman Disaster Redux: Private Sector Collects Debts
Obama seeks debt collector proposal ... To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Barack Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private ... |
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08/26/11 - The Outrage Is Comparing Free Markets to Capitalism
The Daily Ticker's Henry Blodget posted a Business Insider entitled "OUTRAGE OF THE DAY: Do You Realize That The Government Is Still Paying Banks Not To Lend...?" Blodget ... |
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08/15/11 - The Big Corporations Excuse
Anytime I mention to someone from the Left that I consider the scope of government way beyond justice and prudence, I am likely to be told that it is big corporations that make ... |
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07/05/11 - So Many Lost Decades - Why?
Is the UK following Japan into a 'lost decade'? At Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, the air conditioning is set permanently on 26 degrees. It's hot and ... |
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