Fall 2008

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• EU official says “Tobin Tax” not right way to go

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 526
  A "Tobin" style tax on financial transactions is not the best way to raise cash for bank bailouts, a senior official from the European Unions executive body said on Wednesday. The G20 group of leading countries asked the International Monetary Fund at a meeting in Scotland last month to come up with options by April ...
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• A graphic display of county by county employment changes since 2007

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 526
  Push play--powerful and painful .
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• Politico: Some Democrats sour on stock transaction tax

  
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  Three House Democrats are ripping a proposed tax on stock transactions, even as the idea gains traction among Democrats desperate to fund jobs creation.... “Proponents of a transaction tax argue that a small 0.25 percent tax on stocks would be paid for by the highly paid financial traders and would not affect most ...
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• Robert Samuelson: Fed ‘reform’ we don’t want

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 526
  Congress has so far sensibly put this off limits. "Audit" has a different meaning in the context of the GAO than in everyday usage. It means examine, investigate, evaluate and, often, criticize. Its not just crunching numbers. The GAO usually undertakes studies at the request of someone in Congress. This suggests that ...
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• Forecast for South Carolina Economy remains gloomy

  
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  Roughly half a million adults in South Carolina are unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking. That is nearly 1 in 4 eligible workers in the state. And the months ahead look grim to John Rainey, South Carolinas chief economic forecaster. "I dont feel hopeless, but its hard to feel hopeful," Rainey said. He ...
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• Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: U.S. Hunger on the Rise

  
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  KIM LAWTON, anchor: Joining me with more on all of this is Candy Hill, a senior vice president at Catholic Charities USA. Candy, it seems like this time of year, every year, we hear appeals from groups saying “Oh people are hungry, you need to give.” What makes this year different? CANDY HILL, Catholic Charities: ...
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• Sarel Oberholster: The Cruelest Tax of All

  
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  The zero-interest-rate policy of the Fed is sold to the public as a benign economic rescue in the public interest. The stark reality is that this policy is a disguised tax implemented by the Fed. It takes income from savers and hands it as a subsidy to borrowers. It also facilitates and funds the fiscal deficit ...
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• This year’s New Jersey Budget gap grows fivefold

  
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  The state on Wednesday told bond investors it is facing a $1 billion hole in this year’s budget — a shortfall five times bigger than previously disclosed — and will cut funding for schools, municipalities, higher education, hospitals and pension plans to close the gap. For months, Governor Corzine has been ...
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• Scott Jagow of NPR on the Tobin Tax: Taxing the Street

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 526
  Perhaps you heard on the Marketplace Morning report this proposal to tax Wall Street transactions. The revenues would go toward deficit reduction and job creation on Main Street. I understand the motivation behind this, but there’s a pretty good case against it. Read it all and the comments are interesting as well ...
  1 week ago

• Bank of England Reveals Secret £62bn mission to save banking sector within hours of collapse

  
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  Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS were given a secret £61.6 billion in bridging loans last year on top of the £500 billion of support that the banking sector received from the taxpayer, the Governor of the Bank of England disclosed yesterday. MPs expressed astonishment when Mervyn King told them about the emergency ...
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• Front Page of Friday’s NY Times: With F.H.A. Help, Easy Loans in Expensive Areas

  
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  While the F.H.A. is certainly strengthening the high-end market in the Bay Area by prompting more sales, there are growing concerns that it might become a destabilizing force. Kenneth Donohue, inspector general for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the parent agency of the F.H.A., said the higher loan ...
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• Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government

  
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  The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true. But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer. Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon ...
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• WSJ: Weighing Jobs and Deficit

  
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  The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit, administration officials said. There is as yet no agreement within the White House or in Congress on how to try to ...
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• Regents Raise College Tuition in California by 32 Percent

  
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  As the University of California’s Board of Regents met Thursday at U.C.L.A. and approved a plan to raise undergraduate fees — the equivalent of tuition — 32 percent next fall, hundreds of students from campuses across the state demonstrated outside, beating drums and chanting slogans against the increase.... ...
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• More members of middle class file for bankruptcy

  
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  A new study by Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School Leo Gottlieb professor of law, and Deborah Thorne, Ohio University associate professor of sociology, finds that personal bankruptcy has become a largely middle-class phenomenon led by filers who are college-educated and owners of homes. According to the study, "The ...
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• Last Night’s NBC Evening News Leads with: Anger over the Economy

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 526
  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy Watch it all--those of us in parish ministry need to be sensitive to these dynamics and to seek to allow these sentiments to be channeled in constructive and creative ways--KSH.
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• The Hill: Stock tax less likely for jobs bill

  
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  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday played down the possibility of using a stock trade tax to fund jobs legislation, saying it should only be done in conjunction with other countries. "It would have to be an international rule," Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at her weekly news conference. She said that she did not want ...
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• Passementerie Shoes

  
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  I first saw passementerie -embellished footwear on a pair of boots several years ago while browsing through one of those old paper Spiegel catalogs that used to arrive in my mailbox on a near-daily basis.  Back when finding a catalog item on back-order was a normal course of events with mail-order houses and not ...
  2 weeks ago

• California again faces massive deficit, projected at $21 billion

  
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  California government is again beset with red ink, facing a nearly $21-billion deficit over the next year and half, according to a report released today by the states chief budget analyst. Nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor projected state spending severely out of line with tax collections not just amid the ...
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• $500 Million, and an Apology, From Goldman Sachs

  
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  How much good will can an apology — and half a billion dollars — buy? Goldman Sachs is hoping it will be a lot. After first staunchly defending its outsize profits and pay, and then bristling at calls for restraint in these tough economic times, Goldman is trying a new tack: It is apologizing for past mistakes ...
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