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When the House Committee on Un-American Activities began its investigations after WWII looking for communists in the US government, it might have had a semi-legitimate goal. That objective did not...
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Now that the government has set a number of caps on Wall St. pay packages, the question is whether the financial firms can get around some of the rules. Certainly not. Congress has too much...
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Wall St. keeps coming up with new ways to waste money and upset Congress, the Administration, and the public. Part of the argument made by large financial firms for paying out big big bonuses is that...
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There is not going to be much positive press today about the U.S. banking sectors. The top CEOs of America’s banks are going to testify before the House Financial Services Committee. Despite...
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The argument over the Treasury Department’s use of new TARP funds and other stimuli focused a great deal on putting $500 billion into propping up banks and another $1 trillion into freeing up...
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The Treasury has too much to do. It will delay talking about its new overhaul for banks until Tuesday while it works with Congress to help finalize a new stimulus package which may have a $800...
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If you’re anywhere near Ft. Lauderdale on February 17th, you might want to check out the town hall meeting featuring T. Boone Pickens and Mike Jackson, who is CEO of AutoNation Inc. (NYQ:AN). The...
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David Paterson, the governor of New York State, will be attending the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, along with aides and several state troopers, sparking rumors that Switzerland is a hot...
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The second and last $350 billion of TARP funding is not in the hands or the new Treasury Secretary and the $825 billion stimulus package may not leave the hands of Congress for three weeks. No...
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The US Minerals Management Service said that its new five-year plan for drilling on the US outer continental shelf (OCS) "isn’t affected" by the review order issued on Tuesday by the Obama...
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"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger".–Kennedy Inaugural Address 1961. "We must do what no...
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Judged by the country’s performance in extracting hydrocarbons, Venezuela under President Hugo Chavez has not been a smashing success. Ten years ago, when Chavez first came to power, the country...
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It did not take long for the Congressional attacks on the Obama stimulus package to begin. That should have been expected from the Republicans, but the more spirited disagreement with administration...
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The committee assigned by Congress to keep track of whether the Treasury has spent the money from the TARP wisely has come out with its latest report which keelhauls Henry Paulson and his colleagues....
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As the dispute drags on between Ukraine and Russian over the price of Russian natural gas, the weather gets colder in Europe and the European Union has demanded an immediate solution to the problem....
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