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ThinkstockWhen President Obama announced the second round of sanctions Thursday on 13 Russian individuals, the list included Gennady Timchenko, co-founder of Gunvor, the world’s fourth-largest oil...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Internal Revenue Service announced Wednesday that it owes about 919,000 U.S. taxpayers nearly $760 million in refunds for the 2010 tax year. To get what they are owed, all these...
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ThinkstockIn a speech Tuesday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin struck both a defiant and a conciliatory tone. On one hand he accused the West of fostering a putsch in Kiev and that Crimea is...
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ThinkstockThe outlook for a long-sought federal fix of state sales taxation of online retailers looks dim after comments Wednesday by Robert Goodlatte, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives...
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ThinkstockVladimir Putin’s decision to try to seize Crimea from Ukraine may make nationalists happy, but investors — Russian or otherwise — are getting clobbered. Russian stocks have been in a...
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ThinkstockBefore getting too excited about the end of tensions, one must understand that the Russian ambitions in Crimea and the Ukraine will not likely disappear overnight. Still, world markets...
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ThinkstockThe military actions in the Ukraine are costing Russia big time. Vladimir Putin received approval internally to use military action, but the men who approved the action may have cost...
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courtesy Boeing Co.Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was to release a budget proposal Monday that would reduce the size of the U.S. Army to levels not seen since before World War II. So, what did defense...
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Jon OggMarijuana may have become legalized for medical use in 20 states and legal for recreational use in two states, but what has not been legalized is how these companies conduct their business....
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ThinkstockHealth insurance providers are not having a good start to 2014. The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is not bringing in enough young subscribers to offset the costs of those who are in...
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The U.S. Congressional Budget Office now estimates that the federal budget deficit in fiscal year 2014 will total less than half the $1.4 trillion federal deficit in 2009. Federal revenues are...
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ThinkstockThe most conservative Americans live in the Plains States and the South, which probably comes as no surprise. And the liberals tend to live in the Northeast and on the West Coast, not...
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ThinkstockWhen Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan said to avoid emerging markets in 2014, many investors and market participants thought that the firms were merely sticking to a 2013 trend for too long....
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At a time when federal lawmakers are debating issues like unemployment benefits, food stamps and the minimum wage, as well as considering an overhaul of the tax code, there are now more millionaires...
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ThinkstockPerhaps roadblocks set in front of key legislation, growing budget deficits, anxiety about the national debt, spying on citizens and an overall lack of direction have turned Americans...
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