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U.S. Mortgage Rates Hit 50-Year Low (Prashant Gopal)
Aug. 18, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. mortgage rates fell to the lowest in more than half a century as concern that the global economic recovery is faltering spurred demand for bonds that guide home ...
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Philly Fed’s factory index in August freefall (Greg Robb)
Regional gauge falls to negative 30.7, stunning markets Aug. 18, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Factory activity in the Philadelphia region weakened sharply in August to the lowest level seen ...
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SEC may have destroyed documents, senator says (Ronald D. Orol)
Aug. 18, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission may have destroyed documents and compromised enforcement cases involving activity at large banks and hedge funds ...
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Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? (Matt Taibbi)
A whistleblower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals. Aug. ...
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U.S. Stocks Tumble on Global Growth Concerns, Economic Reports (Rita Nazareth)
Aug. 18, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks slumped after Morgan Stanley cut its forecast for global growth and government data showed that jobless claims rose and consumer inflation accelerated more ...
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Ending the Moral Rot on Wall Street, Part 1 (William D. Cohan)
Illustration by Ian Michael Rousey & Chris Nosenzo Aug. 7, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- What will it take for Americans to finally get the message that much of Wall Street, in its current form, is a corrupt ...
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High Corn (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 15, 2011 -- Looking every inch the Assistant Manager of a J.C. Penney, Rick Perry of Texas stepped on-board the touring evangelical freak show that the ...
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Life in an Age of Looting: 'Some Will Rob You with a Sixgun and Some with a Fountain Pen (Phil Rockstroh)
Aug. 12, 2011 (World News Trust) -- As the poor of Britain rise in a fury of inchoate rage and stock exchanges worldwide experience manic upswings and panicked swoons, the financial elite (and their ...
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BOOKS: Refusing to be Enemies -- Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. By Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta (Jim Miles)
Refusing to be Enemies - Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Ithaca Press (Garnet Publishing, Reading, UK), 2011. Aug. 10, 2011 ...
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Gaza, Somalia: Humanity Lives On (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 10, 2011 -- I remember how exhilarated I felt when I was told I was old enough to fast for the month of Ramadan. My feelings had little to do with abstention ...
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Semantic Propaganda Feeds Stupidity (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 23, 2011 -- We would already have had a much needed American revolution in response to the tyranny of the money-fed two-party plutocracy that is ...
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