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In Wake of Wal-Mart Price Hike, Union Urges Pols to Donate Campaign Cash
The New York Observer - 7 days agoThe Washington Post had a devastating story yesterday about Wal-Mart raising prices on toys just in time for Christmas. Today, the United Food and Commercial Union Workers union is calling on local pols who have received Wal-Street cash to donat…
Read more >>L. Randall Wray: Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud, Part III: MERS'S Role in Facilitating the Mother of All Frauds
The Huffington Post - 7 days agoThis is the final in a three-part series. Read Part 1 here and Part II here. In the previous two parts of this series I have recounted the multiple Frauds perpetrated by MERS: it defrauded counties out of billions of dollars of reporting fees, i…
Read more >>ACOs - the New HMOs?
Washington Examiner - 1st Dec 2010
By: James A. Bacon Jr. 12/01/10 8:38 AM Republicans would have the public believe that the Obama Administration plans to control runaway Health Care costs by means of Rationing and Death Panels. Such drastic remedies may be a logical outgrowth of…
Read more >>TRENDING: Olbermann lashes out at Koppel criticisms
CNN Political Ticker - 16th Nov 2010(CNN) - Less than a week after returning from his network-imposed suspension for contributing money to Democratic Candidates, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann lashed out at a recent editorial from Ted Koppel, in which the former ABC anchor suggested MSN…
Read more >>Matt Osborne: Sarahpalooza! Part II: Convention Crashing
The Huffington Post - 7th Oct 2010What happens to a Huffington Post blogger at a Tea Party Convention? You get chased out of the building by a shrill harpy yelling nonsense at your back. I needed to be in Nashville Saturday anyway, so I crashed the Tea Party at the Gaylord ( heh!…
Read more >>Letters to the Editor: Give the U.S. Postal Service the Freedom to Compete
The Wall Street Journal - 5th Oct 2010In assailing a proposed two-cent increase in the price of a first-class postage stamp, your editorial " The Post Office Hustle " (Sept. 27) uncharacteristically fails to identify the underpinning of the decision to seek a price change: a legislat…
Read more >>Gold company sticking with Glenn Beck, other conservative pundits
The Hill - 24th Sep 2010A gold trading company has no plans to end its high-profile sponsorship of conservative commentators despite coming under congressional scrutiny. Scott Carter, executive Vice President of Goldline International, Inc., told The Hill that the fi…
Read more >>What We’re Reading: More on the Skills Mismatch
Economix - 8th Sep 2010Daniel Gros on the skills mismatch in the United States, and the related challenges for shifting to an export-driven economy. Social networks can help fight Terrorism ! Also, they can help make Retailers a little richer. Peter Orszag’s fir…
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