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SEIU members, Post-Dispatch reporter among six charged with beating Conservative at town hall meeting
ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Six people arrested in August outside a raucous town hall meeting in south St. Louis County have been charged with misdemeanor ordinance violations. The six, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, had attended a demonstration outside an Aug. 6 forum called by U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, at Bernard Middle School in [...]
The ‘Real’ Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed
By: Jeff Cox CNBC.com As experts debate the potential speed of the US recovery, one figure looms large but is often overlooked: nearly 1 in 5 Americans is either out of work or under-employed. According to the government’s broadest measure of unemployment, some 17.5 percent are either without a job entirely or underemployed. The so-called [...]
Democrats push $150B stock tax on Wall Street
A House bill still being drafted aims to raise $150 billion each year to pay for new jobs. Under a bill being drafted by Democratic Reps. Peter DeFazio (Ore.) and Ed Perlmutter (Colo.), the sale and purchase of financial instruments such as stocks, options, derivatives and futures would face a 0.25 percent tax.
Analysis: Fed under fire as public anger mounts
Nov 22, 12:01 PM (ET) By TOM RAUM WASHINGTON (AP) – Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody’s punching bag.Strip the Fed of its bank regulation powers, some in Congress are demanding. Get probing audits of its behind-the-scenes operations, others say. The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is always fair game for criticism and second-guessing, [...]
New gold bugs making gold investments mainstream
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold has long been favored by a fringe of the investment world, but this year some of the world’s leading hedge-fund managers have loaded up on the precious metal amid concern government efforts to avoid another Great Depression that could undermine major currencies and fuel rampant inflation. “I have never been [...]
GOP Says Health Care Bill Comes Up Short
Calling the Senate health care bill a package that Ponzi schemer “Bernie Madoff would really envy,” Republican Sen. Jon Kyl said Sunday that the legislation to be debated in December is long on promises but short on accounting. “When they claim a savings … in the first 10 years, that’s because they start collecting taxes [...]
Too Big to Fail
Author of “Too Big to Fail” Andrew Ross Sorkin shares the moment-by-moment of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. Sorkin visits with Kurt Schemers on Traders Nation(tm)
Too much debt could fuel double-dip recession…
* Obama warns of double-dip recession, loss of confidence * Delicate balance to expand economy and reduce debt * Obama eyes export growth to fuel job creation * Tax provisions could encourage businesses to hire sooner (Adds quotes, NBC interview, background) By Caren Bohan BEIJING, Nov 18 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama gave his sternest [...]
Report: ACORN got $200,000 in Justice Department funds
By Eric Zimmermann ACORN and its affiliates received $200,000 in Justice Department grants between 2002 and 2009, according to a report issued Friday by the department’s inspector general. No DOJ grants went directly to ACORN, but a handful of grants were awarded either to ACORN affiliates or to other organizations that sub-contracted projects to ACORN. [...]