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House Passes Housing Bill; Bush Lifts Veto Threat

epochtimes.com     9 hrs ago   509 related          

The House of Representatives passed a massive housing rescue bill on Wednesday while the White House dropped a threat to veto it, paving the way for measures aimed at shoring up the worst U.S. housing market since the Great...                

Analysis shows candidates' tax plans add to U.S. debt

sacbee.com     7 hrs ago   12 related          

By Steven Thomma - sthomma@mcclatchydc.com Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, July 24, 2008 Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A7 WASHINGTON – John McCain's and Barack Obama's tax proposals would add trillions of dollars...                

The Greatest Threat America Has Ever Faced: the GOP?

digg.com     6 hrs ago   2 related          

The Mother of All Messes By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Republicans are sending around the Internet a photo of a cute little boy whose T-shirt reads: “The mess in my pants is nothing compared to the mess Democrats will make of this...                

Bust, Bail, Repeat: The U.S. Enters into an Ever-Worsening Cycle (at Seeking Alpha)

yahoo.com     2 hrs ago   1 related          

by: Max Wolff posted on: July 24, 2008 | about stocks: We are a year into the financial pain and virtually no systemic problem has been solved. In the depths of the swoon, the Fed opens the discount window to some new and...                

MTA Plan Proposes Fare Hikes

epochtimes.com     10 hrs ago   23 related          

By Shaoshao Chen Epoch Times Staff Jul 23, 2008 There’s no question about it, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is facing hard times. In the face of a multi-million dollar budget deficit, the MTA is seeking to hike fares again...                

Proposed budget will avoid projected deficit

dailytexanonline.com     10 hrs ago   13 related          

Austin City Manager Marc Ott proposed a $2.8 billion fiscal year budget on Wednesday to the city council that evades a previously projected $25.3 million budget deficit. If the budget passes as is, Austinites could expect an...                

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: Let's Add More Debt To the National Total

huffingtonpost.com     1 hr ago          

From a story talking about the new housing bill: From the WSJ: The package could also come at a significant cost to the U.S. government, which would be authorized to invest billions of dollars in troubled mortgage giants Fannie...                

The abuses of the Federal Reserve System

informationliberation.com     4 hrs ago   1 related          

Dr. Ron Paul, the Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential nomination, is not the first U.S. politician to point to the abuses of the Federal Reserve System and call for its abolishment. Similar pleas to get rid of the...                

Implications of adjustment to riskier dollar assets in a portfolio balance framework, illustrated...

econbrowser.com     8 hrs ago   2 related          

Consider a hypothetical world economy with assets denominated in dollars and euros. Define the exchange risk premium on dollar denominated assets as: rp = iUS - i* - E(ds) where E(.) is the expectations operator, and ds is the...                

Rival camps chart divergent paths to budget deficit targets

ft.com     12 hrs ago          

By Krishna Guha in Washington An Obama administration would aim to deliver a budget deficit of less than 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product by the end of its first term, Austan Goolsbee, a senior economic adviser, said on...                

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