…The New York Attorney General, Eric T. Schneiderman today sued three of the country’s biggest banks, over their use of a national private electronic mortgage registry, accusing them of deceptive and unlawful practices, including false documents in foreclosure proceedings. Lawsuit
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Australia, the world’s driest inhabited continent, went through its worst drought in 2009, which resulted in its farm land prices dropping nationally by almost 20%, and in some extreme cases, by almost half, when compared to 2007. This extremely depressed
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…You know that, for the sake of your budget, you should kick the ever-more-expensive coffee habit. And, for that matter, that you should make yourself a brown-bagged BLT to bring to work rather than getting Chipotle for the third time
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With the 2012 election less than a year away, the election machine is fired up and ready to go. Hot topics include the economy, housing, and job creation through tax cuts and regulation.
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Blackstone Co-Chairman Stephen Schwarzman is hosting a party for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney Tuesday evening at his Park Avenue apartment in New York City, a person familiar with the event said.
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…Morgan Stanley (MS), owner of the world’s biggest brokerage, is capping immediate cash bonuses at $125,000 as the firm curtails pay and defers more compensation for senior executives, according to a person briefed on the plans.
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Nassim Taleb, author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan,… talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about antifragility, the concept behind Taleb’s next book, a work in progress. Taleb talks about how we can cope with our ignorance and
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It’s been 36 months since the Fed strapped its benchmark interest rate to a …range of 0 to 0.25%. Since then the effective federal funds rate has averaged 0.145% on a monthly basis. There are some encouraging noises from the
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…Many people want to simplify their lives to provide them some relief from the constant stimulation we subject ourselves to in today’s society that results in confusion. I say “subject ourselves to” because we are the ones who turn on
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…Todd Combs, Warren Buffett’s apprentice stock picker at Berkshire Hathaway Inc., posted gains on his first equity bets at the company by buying when markets fell and increasing stakes in investments that declined.
Purchases of seven stocks by Mr. Combs
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…WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. taxpayers owe an estimated $385 billion in unpaid taxes for 2006, up about a third from the “tax gap” five years before, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said.
Despite the wider shortfall between 2001 and 2006,
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…Erik Nelson was working in Stamford, Connecticut, as a research analyst at FMG USA LLC, the U.S. arm of FMG, a fund of funds specializing in emerging and frontier markets, when his bosses called him into a meeting in September
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…A satirical short film taking a look at the national debt and how it applies to just one family. Starring Brian Stepanek & Eddie Jemison, Produced by Seth William Meier, DP/Edited by Craig Evans, 1st AC Brian Andrews, Sound Mixer
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