How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Global Taxes - US Business News - CNBC

Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:26 PM EDT (CNBC Top News and Analysis)

RENO, Nev.— Apple, the world’s most profitable technology company, doesn’t design iPhones here.

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Is Moderate Growth Good For The Economy? : NPR

Seeded on Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:52 AM EDT (NPR)

Seems slow growth is popular now, the new norm:)

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Medicare Trustee Report Hangs On Uncertain Assumptions

Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:41 PM EDT (Reuters)

The Trust Fund for Medicare bases its solvency on unlikely scenarios

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Social Security New Front in Payroll-Tax Fight - WSJ.com

Seeded on Wed Dec 7, 2011 9:02 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Politics make strange bedfellows, imagine Bernie Sanders on the same side as Sen. Kyl

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U.S. Plans Bomb Sales in Persian Gulf to Counter Iran - WSJ.com

Seeded on Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:55 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

The U.S. is considering the sale of bunker buster bombs to the UAE to counter Iran.

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Exculsive: Democrats Seek 3 Trillion In Savings

Seeded on Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:07 AM EDT (Reuters)

Tax Increases and Cuts To Medicare and Medicaid to lower the national debt by 3 trillion dollars.

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Poll:Is It Rude To Ask A Complete Stranger What Something Costs?

Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:38 PM EDT

Has this ever happened to you? A complete stranger walks up to you, and without introducing himself, asks how much your car, IPAD etc costs?

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Little State With A Big Mess

Seeded on Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:45 PM EDT (The New York Times)

ON the night of Sept. 8, Gina M. Raimondo, a financier by trade, rolled up here with news no one wanted to hear: Rhode Island, she declared, was going broke. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow. But if current trends held, Ms.

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Krugman Calls Social Security Ponzi Scheme 1996

Seeded on Tue Oct 4, 2011 9:57 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Back in the good old days it was the liberal media that called Social Security a Ponzi scheme

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Wall Street, Occupation

Tue Oct 4, 2011 1:11 AM EDT

It would seem to be a good time to re evaluate the role of Wall St in our economy and society. Some background should be in order to put my observations into perspective. I started on Wall St as a college student way back in 1968.

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The Phony Solyndra Scandal

Seeded on Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:11 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Republicans are trying to make the Solyandra investigation into a scandal

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End Mortgage Tax Deduction?

Tue Dec 14, 2010 9:45 PM EST

One of the proposals to come out of the deficit commission is the elimination of the deduction for mortgage interest. It must be tempting to tap such a huge source of revenue. In my opinion the revenue would be matched by expenditure to create a zero gain.

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4 Big Mortgage Backers Swim In Ocean Of Debt

Seeded on Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:31 PM EST (The New York Times)

Even as the biggest banks repay their government debt in what is being heralded as a successful rescue program, four troubled giants of the financial world remain on government life support.

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House moves to protect doctors from Medicare cuts

Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:43 AM EST (msnbc.com)

The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff.

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Poll: What Will Health Care Reform Mean To You?

Thu Oct 8, 2009 10:50 PM EDT

Since it is apparent that some form of healthcare reform will be passed this year, its time to find out what all this means to you. Will you be obtaining cheaper rates, will the pre exist clause help you obtain insurance that you couldnt get before?

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Swiss Health Care Thrives Without Public Option

Seeded on Thu Oct 1, 2009 9:17 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Like every other country in Europe, Switzerland guarantees health care for all its citizens. But the system here does not remotely resemble the model of bureaucratic, socialized medicine often cited by opponents of universal coverage in the United States. .

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Changing Health Care By Steps

Seeded on Wed Sep 2, 2009 11:49 PM EDT (The New York Times)

After Harry Truman repeatedly failed to persuade Congress to pass universal health insurance, some Truman administration officials came up with a less ambitious idea.

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What I Learned From The 'Mob'

Seeded on Wed Sep 2, 2009 2:27 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

By TOM COBURN I spoke with thousands of voters at town-hall meetings this summer. What I gathered from them is that it's not just the proposed overhaul of health care that has them upset. Many also expressed a sense of betrayal.

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Tennessee Experiment's High Cost Fuels Health-Care Debate

Seeded on Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:37 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

In 1994, Tennessee launched an ambitious public insurance program to cover its uninsured. The plan, TennCare, fulfilled that mission but nearly bankrupted the state in the process.

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Health Care in Britain: Expat Goes for a Checkup

Seeded on Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:56 PM EDT (The New York Times)

There are times when, viewed from afar, American political discourse looks like nothing more than a huge brawl conducted by noisy, ill-informed polemicists.

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A Public Option Isnt A Curse, Or A Cure

Seeded on Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:19 AM EDT (The New York Times)

"WE clearly don't need any more distractions from the two main issues of health care reform: how to deal with our large uninsured population and how to make the entire system more cost effective.

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U.S. Home Foreclosures Set New Record In July

Seeded on Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:31 AM EDT (Reuters)

U.S. home loans failed at a record pace in July despite ongoing federal and state programs to avoid foreclosures, which have severely strained housing and the economy.

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The Next Fannie Mae

Seeded on Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:37 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

"Much to their dismay, Americans learned last year that they "owned" Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Well, meet their cousin, Ginnie Mae or the Government National Mortgage Association, which will soon join them as a trillion-dollar packager of subprime mortgages.

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Geithner Asks Congress To Raise Debt Limit

Seeded on Fri Aug 7, 2009 9:49 PM EDT (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner formally requested that Congress raise the $12.1 trillion statutory debt limit on Friday, saying that it could be breached as early as mid-October.

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House Member Received Loans From Countrywide

Seeded on Fri Aug 7, 2009 6:14 AM EDT (Reuters)

"A leading Democrat in the House of Representatives who has rebuffed Republican efforts to subpoena records of a mortgage program for favored borrowers at Countrywide Financial Corp got home loans from that lender, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday"

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