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    Cayman Island Office Building Home to 9,000 U.S. Tax Cheats

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    Corporate America and its wealthy executive class has had it good under the Bush administration. Not only has it benefited...

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    mailto:?subject=Check out WSJ: States Slammed by Tax...
    131 days ago in The Big Picture · Authority: 1,328

    in Consumer Spending | Economy | Real Estate | Taxes and Policy Nice interactive chart on the Beige Book accompanies this realistic article on the precarious conditions of State finances: "The stumbling U.S. economy is forcing states to slash

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    Saving for a Rainy Day

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    131 days ago in The Scratching Post · Authority: 90

    ...is completely out of fashion. Today's Wall Street Journal has a page one article that discusses how many states are facing serious budget shortfalls because the business cycle is turning down after many years of expansion. The result? Big cuts in

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    WSJ: States Slammed by Tax Shortfalls

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    132 days ago in The Big Picture · Authority: 1,822

    Nice interactive chart on the Beige Book accompanies this realistic article on the precarious conditions of State finances: "The stumbling U.S. economy is forcing states to slash spending and cut jobs in order to close a projected $40 billion shortfall

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    You Can Sue, But You Wont Win

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    132 days ago in The Aleph Blog · Authority: 123

    Now, Ive never been a great fan of the financial guarantee insurers, or the rating agencies.  Consider my post dealing with then over at RealMoney, Snarls in Insurance Investigation, Part 2.  In it, three-plus years ago, I suggested that Eliot Spitzer

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    (AllPolitics, November 3) — Democrat Shelley Berkley took Nevada’s 1st congressional district seat, edging out the GOP candidate, Clark County District Court Judge Don Chairez . Berkley, a telecommunications consultant and lawyer, will succeed two more The stumbling U.S. economy is forcing states to slash spending and cut jobs in order to close a projected $40 billion shortfall in the current fiscal year. That gap — identified Wednesday in a survey by the National Conference of State Legislatures more (CBS4) Victoria Villalba has been helping South Floridians find good jobs for two decades. She remembers what our job market was like just a year ago. “We had more jobs than we had people then,” she says. “It seemed like a flip of the switch that more Filed under Tuition Research by Quickly bookmark

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