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• Shrinking Credit Threatens Almost $9 Billion in Sales

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 436
  This time of year is normally a retailers dream, but according to Bloomberg.com people are spending much less than usual this holiday season. With banks tightening their lending practices before a new credit-card law is due to take effect, large retailers are expected to lose out on nearly $9 billion in ...
  11 hours ago

• Dollar wobbles after lackluster US data (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AFP - The dollar traded mostly lower Thursday in thin pre-holiday trade after lackluster US economic data prompted the market to rethink expectations for a rapid Federal Reserve interest rate increase.
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• China’s Carbon-fuel Economic Trap

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 435
  China has outraged political and diplomatic leaders around the world by aggressively blocking agreement on hard targets for binding emissions cuts, refusing even to agree to any accord that would include mention of other nations’ specific cuts. One observer told the BBC that he observed China, India and Saudi Arabia ...
  16 hours ago

• US Senate Passes Healthcare Reform Bill 60-39 on Christmas Eve

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 435
  The United States Senate scheduled what might be the most important vote on domestic issues for 2009 for a special late legislative session on Christmas Eve. Republicans say Democrats are trying to manipulate the process and punish them for opposing the measure, while Democrats say obstructionist Republicans made it ...
  16 hours ago

• Blaming Obama: the New Spin-Game of Washington Hacks

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 435
  Pres. Barack Obama took office in the midst of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s, with two wars in Asia and skyrocketing unemployment, record numbers of bankruptcies, a financial services industry in a state of near total paralysis and/or collapse, and declining federal revenues with ...
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• ACORN, Health Care Bill, Harry Reid, Manager’s amendment, Racial quotas, Department of Health and Human Services

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 559
  From One News Now, December 23, 2009. “Who benefits from Senate healthcare? ACORN!” “A legal scholar says the Senate healthcare bill is not only stuffed full of racial quotas and preferences, but it also gives the disgraced liberal activist group ACORN opportunities to receive funding from the Department of ...
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• Disney CEO’s 2009 pay drops 58 percent to $21.6M (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - Robert Iger, Walt Disney Co.s chief executive, absorbed a 58 percent compensation cut in 2009, brought on by the entertainment companys struggles during the worst recession in more than 70 years.
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• Obama (again) Urges Bankers to Lend more Money

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 436
  From USAToday.com: It was a little like financial Groundhog Day at the White House today-- President Obama again met with a group of bankers, and again asked them to provide more loans to business owners so they can hire more people. The difference is that this group consisted of a dozen ...
  1 day ago

• US home foreclosures top one million mark

  
  The Intelligence Daily — Authority: 451
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• Tanning tax angers American salon owners

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Measure added to healthcare reform bill calls for a 10% tax on all indoor tanning sessions The health reform bill passing through Congress may hold out the hope to 30 million Americans that they will at last be able to get medical insurance, but for another 30 million people it will mean more taxes: the frequenters ...
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• Home Sales Plunge Unexpectedly

  
  JammieWearingFool — Authority: 713
  It was "unexpected" since by now all Americans were supposed to be safely ensconced in the home of their dreams with Barack Obama paying their mortgages and utility bills, health care was going to be "free" for all, the world was going to love us again, Club Gitmo was to be shuttered, thereby improving our "image" ...
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• Geithner: We Will Not Have a Second Wave of Financial Crisis

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 670
  In an interview with NPR last night, Treasury Secretary Geithner said the administration is confident it will prevent a repeat of last year’s financial crisis.AP: “We are not going to have a second wave of financial crisis,” Geithner said on NPR’s “All Things...
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• When the Fed Is Expected to Raise Interest Rates

  
  MoneyEnergy — Authority: 507
  With long-term U.S. bond yields rising and much of the recovery seemingly in place, analysts are increasingly wondering when the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) will begin to implement its quantitative easing exit strategy and start raising interest rates . Currently the Fed baseline interest rate fluctuates ...
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• US Economic Recovery Not as Strong as Previous Estimates

  
  The Intelligence Daily — Authority: 451
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• Russia Web gang took millions from Citi

  
  The Intelligence Daily — Authority: 451
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• Larry Sinclair for Congress, Contract with Florida congressional district 24, Contract with America, Taxpayer money, Transparency

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 559
  Larry Sinclair is running for Congress in Florida congressional district 24 as an independent. Larry Sinclair, despite the multitude of lies told about him, has done everything he has told me he was going to do, including writing and publishing a book about his drug and sex encounter with Barack Obama in 1999. I spoke ...
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• Corporate Share-Buyback Programs Will Accelerate in 2010, Bringing More Profit Opportunity

  
  Money Morning — Authority: 580
  The number of companies buying back their own stock has surged since slipping to the lowest level in more than a decade in the second quarter of 2009. That trend is likely to accelerate in 2010,... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves ...
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• The Dollar, Gold, X-Mas and Happy New Year

  
  Grandich's Blog — Authority: 139
  Barring something unforeseen that can’t wait until January 4th to comment on, this will be my last market commentary of 2009. Despite knowing year-end market conditions can and will cause markets to move more than normal, I’m going to remove my hold on gold and silver bullion (updated model portfolio) and suggest ...
  2 days ago

• Black advocates want more help for the unemployed (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - In the battle against black unemployment, places like the Opportunities Industrialization Center are ground zero.
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• Cintas 2Q down 20 percent, shares fall (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - Cintas Corp. said Tuesday that its fiscal second-quarter profit dropped 20 percent as the nations high unemployment rate reduced demand for its uniforms and other supplies.
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