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• New Year’s Eve Water Cooler 12/31/2009

  
  Hoboken411.com — Authority: 147
  12/31/2009:Some mid-morning updates on the last day of 2009! Get used to typing (and writing) 2010!NO booze on the PATH after 3pm!Hoboken411 reader Jason did some leg work for us and reports that: “PATH Police said that after 3pm on New Years Eve, ANY and ALL liquor bottles (beer, wine, spirits, champagne) will be ...
  6 hours ago

• "MOVE YOUR MONEY" (video)

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 493
  moveyourmoneyproject, video (04:11): For more, go to http://moveyourmoney.info
  7 hours ago

• Odds and ends for 12/31

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 481
  Enough already : GMAC wants another $3-4 billion from the taxpayers. Just. Say. No. Our arrogant national culture is letting our soldiers/marines die unnecessarily : “Indeed, off-the-shelf solutions [to military problems in Iraq and Afghanistan] were there for the asking within Coalition partner states, but ...
  14 hours ago

• Not So Radical Reform

  
  BusinessWeek.com -- Technology — Authority: 811
  Jim Ellis talks with BusinessWeeks Adrienne Carter about this weeks cover story on the prospects for passage of financial regulation reform in Congress.
  23 hours ago

• Some holiday reading

  
  Public Citizen — Authority: 123
  Want an in-depth look at the legislative struggle for financial reform in Congress? Read this excellent article from the Huffington Post’s Laura Bassett, Jeff Muskus and Elyse Siegel. It’s chock full of revealing eye-openers that show why passing strong financial regulation to rein in Wall Street is so ...
  1 day ago

• Another Obama Vetting Disaster

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Jide Zeitlin, the Obama administrations nominee to be Americas point man for financial reform at the United Nations, has withdrawn himself from consideration for the job, an administration official tells The Cable. Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• Bipartisan Blight

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 635
  Health care reform suffered the torments of partisan obstruction. Now gird yourself for financial reform and the perils of bipartisan blight. In health care, lockstep Republican opposition caused months of delay, and empowered the likes of Connecticuts embittered Senator Joe Lieberman and Nebraskas compromised Ben ...
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• Tavern on the Green, Hottest Cities For Job Seekers: Business News

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 154
  Filed under: News , The Economy , Housing , Banking Tavern on the Green Cant Sell Some Items, Parks Department Says Tavern on the Green LP, the bankrupt operator of the 75-year-old restaurant in New Yorks Central Park, shouldnt be allowed to sell assets such as ceilings that are affixed to the property, ...
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• Madoff, Shmadoff: Tim Pawlenty Says The Federal Government Is Running A Ponzi Scheme (VIDEO)

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 793
  Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) had an interesting way of describing federal spending today, calling it "a Ponzi on the Potomac" that "cannot continue on this current course." On Fox News earlier, Pawlenty criticized the administration for "making spending obligations based on hopes and wishes," saying that he instead ...
  2 days ago

• Matt Taibbi On Bill Moyers Journal: Health Care Reform, Wall Street, And Obama

  
  Prose Before Hos — Authority: 426
  Key quote: MATT TAIBBI: My feeling on it is just looking more concretely at the health care problem, this is a bill that to me doesn’t address the two biggest problems with the health care crisis. One is the inefficiency and the bureaucracy and the paperwork which it doesn’t address at all. It doesn’t ...
  2 days ago

• Jobs, Housing, Bailouts and -- Yes -- Tiger Woods: The Top 10 Economic Stories of 2009

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 789
  Filed under: Economy , Obama Administration , Woman Up , Congress With the recession coming to an end but job losses continuing, the economy dominated the news in 2009. From housing and health care to budget deficits and climate change, many of the past years keys issues were inextricably linked to the ...
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• Do we really need regulators who cannot define a purpose for their regulations?

  
  Tea with FT — Authority: 119
  Sir Simon Gleeson writes that the “hardest” is for the regulatory system is “deciding exactly what you are trying to achieve, “Regulatory systems do need regular pruning” December 28. Gleeson is absolutely correct and if in need of evidence the current bank regulations produced by the Basel Committee, ...
  2 days ago

• Beating Triangulators on Financial Reform

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 747
  Triangulators like Bill Clinton and his protégé Rahm Emanuel adopt a position above and beyond traditional political lines. They explain that the liberals and the conservatives both hate it, so it much be a good idea. Conventional thinkers, like the op-ed writers for the WaPo, are impressed, they write good things. ...
  3 days ago

• Economic Outrage du Jour

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 795
  Congress caves. Surprise! Not. Three weeks ago the House of Representatives passed a far-reaching overhaul of financial practices, including a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency to protect consumers from abusive lending practices, establish new trading rules and deal with the threat of too big to fail. It was ...
  3 days ago

• House in Foreclosure? Make Banks Put Up or Shut Up

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 747
  I’ve said it before and I will say it again: If you are being foreclosed on, DEMAND in court, that the bank or entity trying to foreclose on your house produce the original “blue ink signature” mortgage documents and promissory note and that they produce each and every piece of paper showing the various ...
  3 days ago

• The US Bull Market in Smoke, Mirrors and Gullible Investors

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 630
  We have given quite a bit of coverage to the somewhat thin veneer of recovery being spun by misleading government econmic statistics in the US.And we have certainly noted the almost blatant manipulation in many US markets, including stocks and commodities where the banks and hedge funds have been pushing prices ...
  1 week ago

• BREAKING: Rep. Parker Griffith (D-AL) Switching Parties (UPDATED X3)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 134
  From Politico:How much of a difference will this make for the House?As it turns out, not much:While the timing of his announcement was unexpected, Griffith’s party switch will not come as a surprise to those familiar with his voting record, which is one of the most conservative among Democrats.He has bucked the ...
  1 week ago

• Two Big House Bills You Might Have Missed

  
  race42008.com — Authority: 589
  Last week, a financial reform bill passed the House of Representatives and an immigration bill was introduced in the House of Representatives. Given the health care debacle on the Senate side of things, these bills have gotten little notice. My latter point is not a critique of our media- there has been a lot ...
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• Matt Taibbi Is Just Plain Wrong, Again

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 685
  This week on true/slant I wrote rather critically about Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone article titled " Obamas Big Sellout : The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway.” When the American Prospect ’s Tim Fernholz called Taibbi ...
  2 weeks ago

• Barry Ritholtz: "IT WILL SAVE YOUR PRESIDENCY"

  
  KnoxViews - — Authority: 576
  The Big Picture authors big fix: Paul Volcker, The Hammer. Dream on, dreamers.2012 watch: Theres a new Ron Paul in town.... read more
  2 weeks ago

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