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The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness has all the same trappings of an administration commission that the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform did. The...
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SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWRA) and First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) are two prominent U.S. solar manufacturers receiving billions in government-backed loans — funding meant to facilitate deployment of...
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Judging from the net worths of the nine leading Republican presidential nominees, politicians need to be wealthy to run for high office. By most Americans’ standards, all nine are considered rich....
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“All politics is local”–Thomas Phillip “Tip” O’Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House, 1977 to 1987 Twelve members of Congress have been tasked with producing legislation to cut up to $1.5...
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Despite the debacle with a $535 million loan guarantee to now-bankrupt Solyndra, the US Department of Energy is pressing ahead with loan guarantees to solar projects ahead of tomorrow’s deadline....
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The Obama administration set a fund of $30 billion to help small businesses. The Treasury Department closed the fund recently after distributing only $4 billion of the money. The action is another...
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Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMEX) is far from your ordinary company. This is a public treasure hunting outfit. Really. The company is generally not much of an equity trading...
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The U.S. Postal Service faces a default on its debt obligations. Any solution to that problem is likely to raise the rates that magazine companies and catalogs pay in postage. That could be ruinous...
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While Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner gave detailed advice to European nations about how to avoid recession, the U.S. struggles against a contraction of its own. In an editorial in the Financial...
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The highly awaited speech from Fed Head Ben Bernanke at the Economic Club of Minnesota is out, preempting the President Obama speech this evening. What is interesting is that the speech has much of...
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The majority of states require less and less from students in order to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. In fact, when it comes to reading and math, most states set the bar far...
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Some companies just can’t win for losing. particularly when they are tied to the financial sector at the hip and have major trading exposure to banks in America and Europe. When we saw news that...
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The first re-review by the ratings agencies is now out on The United States sovereign credit rating after Standard & Poor’s downgraded the “AAA” sovereign rating. Fitch has just...
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Companies that provide the tools and services to clean up oil spills made the news following last year’s disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Speciality chemical companies that make the fluids used to...
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California is terribly low on money once again. State Controller John Chiang issued a report in which his office said its “monthly report covering California’s cash balance, receipts and...
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