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Fed Signals That a Full Recovery Is Years Away

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it was likely to raise interest rates at the end of 2014, but not until then, adding another 18 months to the expected duration of its most basic and longest-running response to the financial crisis. The announcement  …

If he were alive today - Charles E. Richardson - Macon.com

“Let me speak plain,” Nutter said. “That’s part of the problem in the black community ...

Bomb kills Iran nuclear scientist as crisis mounts| Reuters

Israel, whose military chief said on Tuesday that Iran could expect to suffer more mysterious mishaps, declined comment. The White House, struggling for Chinese and Russian help on economic sanctions, denied any U.S. role and condemned the attack.

Obama's power grab at the Pentagon | The Great Debate

The cuts themselves, though, are less significant as fiscal policy than as a statement about President Obama’s relationship with the Pentagon: Barack is taking it over. That President Obama wasn’t really in charge of the Defense Department might come as somethin …

Sarkozy Wins Merkel Backing for Transaction Tax - Bloomberg

French President Nicolas Sarkozy won the backing of German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a tax on financial transactions, a levy that Britain maintains won’t work unless it’s applied worldwide. The French government, long a proponent of the tax, stepped up its campa …

Insanity: Will We Do The Same Thing Over in 2012?

Einstein gave a definition to Insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.” That quote is in my head so often as of late.

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BBC News - Iran sanctions: What you need to know

Latest US sanctions against Iran. We hit them in the pocket book! Their oil....

Where Are We Heading As a Nation?

As we ponder where we are going it will be good to review where I have been. The first change I recall as an 8th grader in Catholic school, 1950, entering a public high school was the freedom to decide things for myself.

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Scandal of NHS 'production line'.

Hospitals have been accused by ministers of treating patients “like parts on a production line” after official figures suggested that hundreds of thousands of people every year are being sent home before they are well enough.

BREAKING: Fed's Once-Secret Data Released to Public

Bloomberg News today released spreadsheets showing daily borrowing totals for 407 banks and companies that tapped Federal Reserve emergency programs during the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis.

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