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A remedy for beggar states
The nation's menu of crises caused by governmental malpractice may soon include states coming to Congress as mendicants, seeking relief from the consequences of their choices. Congress should forestall this by passing a bill with a bland title but...
Tags: Finance, Politics, Collective Contract, Local Government, Government
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MarksJarvis: Stocks climb more than 13 percent in 2012 despite a lackluster economy
You had perfectly good reasons for being cowardly about the stock market in 2012, but caution didn't serve you well. Despite the fear that a eurozone breakup and a European bank infection would set off another global financial crisis ... despite the...
Tags: Finance, Mario Draghi, Globalization, Money and Monetary Policy, European Central Bank
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Political buzzwords of 2012
Pull up an empty chair, folks. (Up to you whether to interrogate it.) It's time to take a look back at the year that was, politically speaking. We won't know the 2012 word of the year until The American Dialect Society's annual conference next week....
Tags: 2012 Republican National Convention, Clint Eastwood, Government Health Care, Politics, Elections
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Job creation's glum arithmetic
WASHINGTON -- How long will it take to get to an unemployment rate of 6.5 percent? That's the target the Federal Reserve wants to reach before it begins raising interest rates. The best guess of top Fed officials is two and a half years from now or mid-...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Career and Workplace, Unemployment, Employment, Science and Technology
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Floridians' consumer confidence drops amid 'fiscal cliff' concerns
Sun SentinelFloridians' consumer confidence fell in November after rising to five-year highs the previous two months, according to a University of Florida survey released Tuesday. Blame the confidence drop on the election and worries that Washington won't come to...Tags: Politics, Surveys, Consumer Confidence, Elections, Consumers
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Why the recovery is feeble
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke last week became the latest economist to ask why the current economic recovery has been so weak. The question has inspired a cottage industry of studies, papers and speeches with often-esoteric and murky...Tags: Finance, Government Debt, Philosophy, Consumer Confidence, Small Businesses
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Chicago Confidential: Lehman Brothers bankruptcy examiner believes lessons not heeded
The lessons of Lehman Brothers, Chicagoan Anton Valukas says, haven't been learned. He would know. As the man charged by the bankruptcy court with getting to the bottom of what caused the largest bankruptcy in history, the Jenner & Block chairman and...
Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Melissa Harris, Politics, Real Estate, Services and Shopping
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Obama slanders the 1920s to justify his failures
"When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s," President Barack Obama told Mitt Romney in their final debate. Obama...Tags: Great Depression (1929), Finance, Politics, Invention and Innovation, Thomas Edison
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The Obama referendum
Quick — who's the most fearless politician in America? Not the one with whom you most agree. Not the one whose dulcet words and seductive smile best say, You people have no choice but to love me. No, who's the politician who courageously risks his...
Tags: John Boehner, Referenda, White House, Politics, Elections
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Market Week: June 11, 2012
IRA Solutions, Inc. Jesse Lipscomb, Investment Advisor CA Insurance Agent License: 0D22050 4025 Camino Del Rio South, Suite 300 San Diego, CA 92108 Phone: 619-280-2700 Jesse@FinancialCPR.net www.FinancialCPR.net Play Video: Financial Reform:...
Tags: Dow Jones Industrial Average, Finance, Auction Service, Financial Planning, Facebook
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MarksJarvis: Investors turn eyes to 'fiscal cliff'
America is marching toward the fiscal cliff, and investors are on alert for the consequences of plunging from the peak. Re-elected President Barack Obama and congressional leaders must decide in the next 54 days whether they are willing to ignore their...
Tags: Mario Draghi, Politics, European Central Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Republican Party
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