Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
zenHabits.net: The New York Times ran a story today that says the next consumer crisis is credit cards — a sobering fact in a nation that has racked up massive amounts of credit card debt.
Unfortunately, when times get hard, many people turn to credit cards to help them make ends ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
usaToday.com: After several years in which college costs rose more rapidly than other consumer goods, average costs for tuition and fees this year increased less than 1% for public and private institutions when adjusted for inflation, a report released Wednesday shows. They even declined at public two-year institutions.
But context is ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
yahoo news: NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who negotiated executive payment clawbacks by American International Group Inc (AIG.N) as it received a taxpayer bailout, warned nine banks receiving government money on Wednesday that using the funds for bonus payments may be illegal under state law.
In ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
The United States federal law enforcement agency, ATF, had two young men in the state of Tennessee arrested by the local Crockett County sheriff's department on October 22 on unspecified charges. In court documents published on Monday, it came to light that the men allegedly had discussed committing a ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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The emblem of the United States Northern Command, which was created to support local authorities with homeland security.
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US President Bush deployed the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team to a new role on United States soil last Wednesday, training for dealing with national crises. Critics claims ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Mr. Obama, I am directing this statement to you as well as the American people. You are leading in the polls, and that is understandable. We (Republicans) control the White House and hence we are blamed for the country’s economic woes. Fair enough.
The real question is why ...
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