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• Obama boosts hopes for free trade in Asia-Pacific (AP)

  
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  AP – President Barack Obama raised hopes for creating an Asia-Pacific free-trade region by announcing Saturday that the U.S. would seek to join a smaller group seen as a precursor to a broader Pacific Rim agreement. Read the rest here:  (AP)"> (AP)">Obama boosts hopes for free trade in ...
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• NY Fed president: Crisis can teach finance system (AP)

  
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  AP – The president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Friday that the financial world can learn from the economic crunch of the past two years and become stronger. View original post here:  (AP)"> (AP)">NY Fed president: Crisis can teach finance system (AP)
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• Dollar decline continues as trade deficit widens (AP)

  
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  AP – The dollar dropped Friday after the government said the trade deficit widened in September, while the 16-nation eurozone officially emerged from recession, luring investors away from the safe-haven dollar. See original here: (AP)"> (AP)">Dollar decline continues as trade deficit widens (AP)
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• Realtors: home prices to rise 4 percent in 2010 (AP)

  
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  AP – Home prices are expected to grow modestly next year and sales will keep rising as the housing market continues to recover from the worst downturn since the Great Depression, the National Association of Realtors said Friday. View post: (AP)"> (AP)">Realtors: home prices to rise 4 percent in 2010 ...
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• Mike Huckabee book tour, November 13, 2009, Charlotte NC, Governor Huckabee tours 60 cities, A Simple Christmas, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Large crowd

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 588
  Governor Mike Huckabee, who ran for president in 2008 and is a regular on Fox TV, appeared at a book signing at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Charlotte, NC, today, Friday, November 13, 2009. I spoke briefly to Governor Huckabee and he is just as nice in person as he is on TV. A large crowd stood in line for the signing ...
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• Trading away our future in China | Kevin Gallagher

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  The economy is suffering and the planet is warming, but Barack Obamas first visit to China is all about a trade war Barack Obama makes his first trip to China in the middle of a global financial crisis and just weeks before world leaders meet to try to strike a global climate change deal. Leadership from the US and ...
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• One million jobs at risk: Ten US states face budget disaster

  
  The Intelligence Daily — Authority: 498
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• U.S. Treasury Confident Congress Will Increase Debt Ceiling

  
  The Intelligence Daily — Authority: 498
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• Warren Buffett Says ‘The Financial Panic Is Behind Us’

  
  Investorazzi.com — Authority: 472
  Legendary investor Warren Buffett offered some reassuring words to American college students, and the U.S. financial community, yesterday. The Associated Press’ Tali Arbel wrote last night: Capitalism is still alive and well, say the world’s two richest men, despite lingering shocks from the longest, deepest ...
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• How You’ll Pay For The Stimulus Package

  
  The Online Investing AI Blog — Authority: 128
  Daquella manera@Flickr Stimulus packages, like the colossal one hoisted on Americans in the midst of an economic panic last year, is the perfect macroeconomic analogy to the microwave mentality. We want our answers to be super hot and super quick. And we want them to require minimal effort. Except that, these quick ...
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• Reasons to expect a Nike Swoosh recovery

  
  Economics — Authority: 141
  A failure of trust in global financial markets lies at the heart not just of the current recession but prospects for a sustained recovery in spending and jobs. Whilst journalists play the game of alphabet soup to describe the likely shape of the economic cycle, we might be better off thinking in terms of a Nike ...
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• Gold: The Ultimate Unlevered Hard Asset

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 539
  The age of de-leveraging is upon us. Bad news for the US economy; good news for gold. For the past 60 years, corporate debt has grown faster than the economy - 4.1% annually for debt, compared with only 2.7% for the economy as a whole. In short, more and more debt went toward producing each dollar of GDP growth. ...
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• Reid and Pelosi push socialist Health Care Bill, Reid said next week, Congressional Budget Office, Pelosi defends jail time, Fines

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 588
  Two jackasses must be removed from Congress. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They are pushing hard to ram an unpopular, socialist Health Care Bill down the throat of the American public. And the mentally unstable Pelosi defends the penalties included in the bill for not signing up for health care, including jail time. ...
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• U.S. Needs to Borrow Less than Expected: Geithner

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 480
  From MarketWatch.com: The U.S. governments borrowing needs will likely be much less than originally expected, as bank have been repaying funds received during the crisis, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told news channel CNBC. "We are likely to have to borrow substantially less than we ...
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• Home-Purchase Index in U.S. Plunges to Lowest Level Since 2000

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 480
  From Bloomberg.com : Mortgage applications to purchase homes in the U.S. plunged last week to the lowest level in almost nine years as Americans waited for the outcome of deliberations to extend a government tax credit. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s index of applications to buy a ...
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• Will they… won’t they… will they?

  
  Economics — Authority: 141
  Ahead of President Obama’s visit to Asia, earlier this week, the Chinese central bank issued a report signalling its intention to perhaps consider allowing a more flexible exchange rate regime come into force. In one way or another, various entities from the U.S to the IMF have criticised the Chinese’ ...
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• Texas Governor Rick Parry Opens a Can of Whoopass on Obama

  
  Very Important Stuff — Authority: 131
  Check it out: Parry: This is an administration hellbent on taking America toward a socialist country, and we ought not to be afraid to say that. ( More on Parry’s off-the-wall claims from Think Progress .) No one should be afraid to criticize the government.  But Parry would do better to offer ...
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• Banks to Hike Card Rates Ahead of New Regulations

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  With new regulatory restrictions on predatory lending practices, including constraints on the freedom of banks to raise interest rates to unsustainable levels, major banks have told federal regulators that they will be hiking interest rates and slashing credit limits for millions of customers, even where payments have ...
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• Exporting blame to China

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Pinning Americas economic woes on China is too easy. The real villains are Wall Street bankers and their influence Barack Obama is travelling to Asia this week and has promised to say something about the exchange rate between the Chinese yuan and the US dollar. It would be good if some enterprising journalist ...
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• Bill Clinton’s Thoughts On Obama’s Tax-and-Spend Policies

  
  Investment U — Authority: 501
  Bill Clinton’s Thoughts On Obama’s Tax-and-Spend Policies by Mark Skousen , Contributing Editor Thursday, November 12, 2009: Issue #1136 “It’s illegal, but I’ll do it anyway.” Famous last words by former President, Bill Clinton. Last month, I had a chance to talk one-on-one with Clinton at the ...
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