Tag: cronyism
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October 25, 2009 05:44 PM EDT --
By Justin Fox
The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that Congress approved last February was the first major legislative accomplishment of the Obama White House. Lately, it . . .
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October 31, 2009 10:44 AM EDT --
With Goldman Sachs employees on track for their best bonus year ever , the investment bank's executives have been making the case that their bounty is good for all of us. "We contribute to growth," . . .
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September 24, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
As far as I am concerned the bailout should not happen under any circumstances.
Congress is acting prudently by not quickly authorizing the administration's $700 billion bailout plan. . . .
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October 01, 2008 07:43 AM EDT --
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband's real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with . . .
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June 02, 2009 01:27 PM EDT --
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama picked a Republican congressmen to be the next secretary of the Army Tuesday, bringing another member of the opposition into his administration's fold.
Obama . . .
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September 25, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Republican Sen. Richard Shelby emerged from President Bush's economic bailout meeting Thursday afternoon saying, "We will not have a deal."
Shelby, a senator from Alabama, . . .
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September 24, 2008 10:14 AM EDT --
WASHINGTON--Having spent part of my life in the developing world, I know that the nationalization of an industry or an institution is an act of robbery perpetrated under the pretense of altruism--sort . . .
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September 24, 2008 03:22 PM EDT --
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June 11, 2009 10:48 AM EDT --
Americans are at ease with their country's aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, which has resulted in a million dead Muslim civilians and several million refugees, because the US government . . .
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October 20, 2009 07:53 AM EDT --
By Andre Damon and Joe Kishore
Two reports last week, just over one year since the onset of the financial crisis, shed light on the nature of American and world capitalism.
According to an . . .
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September 25, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
After a nerve-rattling week in which the U.S. financial system was shaken to the core, here's a simple question: Why on Earth would anyone want to be president right now?
Even . . .
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October 06, 2008 03:26 PM EDT --
Environmentalists Challenge More Bush Administration Political Interference in Endangered Species Decisions Increased Protection Sought for Six Species in Seven Western States
The Center for Biological . . .
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October 08, 2008 01:54 PM EDT --
Americans have lost as much as $2 trillion in pension savings over the past months.
Public and private pension funds and employees' private retirement savings accounts have lost some 20 percent . . .
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November 23, 2008 10:38 AM EST --
Bushies burrow into Obama -- To make up for losing the recent referendum for change in the nation's governance, the losers have come up with a snappy comeback: a coup. Well, sort of a coup.
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March 27, 2009 08:43 AM EDT --
Geithner Is Cozy with Wall Street? Hooray!
Michelle Cottle breaks down Timothy Geithner's plan to overhaul financial regulation, arguing that Geithner's relationship with the "masters . . .
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April 07, 2009 01:44 PM EDT --
The GOP Broke It Now They Need To Fix It
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July 22, 2009 10:35 AM EDT --
Throughout his campaign for the White House, after his election victory, and as soon as he assumed office, President Obama made it clear that reforming the health care system would be at the top of his . . .
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September 25, 2008 11:11 AM EDT --
This is all the bailout is about.
As you may have heard, John McCain just announced he's suspending his campaign--and asking to postpone Friday's debate--so that he can return to Washington . . .
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September 25, 2008 12:03 PM EDT --
A recent letter writer noted that the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee (our Sen. Dodd) stated that he was going to get to the root of the cause of the current national financial debacle. Wow, such . . .
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September 30, 2008 06:45 AM EDT --
Stephen Starkey poses in 2004 in front of his childhood home, which his mother says she is losing Wednesday.
Congress is scrambling to approve a bailout plan to save a financial system . . .
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