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This last week was a reminder that terrorism is far from gone. The dual bombs at the Boston Marathon were followed by ricin poison letters in the Senate and the White House mail rooms in Washington...
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courtesy Boeing Co.It feels almost like the news flow from 11 years ago is repeating itself, as terrorism is back in the headlines and in the breaking news in America. First it was the dual...
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America lost its ability to ease into the thought that it was safe again on Monday after the Boston Marathon bombs killed three people and injured more than 100. This is very unfortunate, and for...
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ThinkstockFollowing the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, a heated debate has raged over gun laws in the country. Supporters of gun control measures argue that more gun...
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ThinkstockCharles I. Plosser, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, told an audience in Hong Kong that he disagreed with the central bank’s current bond-buying plan. It is another...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve was set to release its minutes of the latest March 19 to 20 FOMC meeting at 2:00 p.m EST today but the report came out at 9:00 a.m. EST instead. The reason is that some...
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ThinkstockThe National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) this morning reported a decline of 1.3 points in its small business optimism index, from 90.8 in February to 89.5 in March. The NFIB...
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ThinkstockThe highest court in Portugal ruled that some of the austerity measures to be employed by the government to curtail deficits are not constitutional. In reaction, the central government said...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. public needs to be careful what it wishes for. The great majority of Americans support the use of the U.S. military if South Korea is attacked by North Korea. Should America be...
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The rhetoric out of North Korea is acting as a drag to the broader markets, but don’t tell that to the defense sector. Of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks, only four are up. Two of those...
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ThinkstockAfter promising voters that the Affordable Healthcare Act (aka Obamacare), and other health care initiatives designed by the current administration would not result in any increase in costs...
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ThinkstockCities may start to use bankruptcy as a tool to skirt obligations the way that airlines have for decades and car companies have done more recently. As AMR, the parent of American Airlines,...
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ThinkstockCyprus will open its banks, which have been shuttered for days as the nation set a deal with the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund for a bailout....
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ThinkstockWhen New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley spoke in New York today he didn’t really say anything new, but he did underscore a point that he and several other Fed officials...
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ThinkstockCyprus has reached a bailout deal that will keep the tiny island nation in the European Union. As we pointed out, those with bank deposits of less than 100,000 euro apparently will go...
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