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Federal Agency Didn't Adequately Oversee BofA Mortgage Settlement: Report

AP | DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Freddie Mac, Billions, Housing Boom, Bank of America, Mortgage Crisis, Assets, Watchdog, Fannie Mae, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Income, Video, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Federal Housing Finance Agency failed to adequately oversee settlements between mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and ...

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Goldman 'Totally Freaked Out' About Volcker Rule

Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Freaked Out, Billions, Financial Reform, Mary Schapiro, Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Reform Goldman, Big Banks, Volcker Rule, Dodd Frank, Business News

This post has been corrected. (Lauren Tara LaCapra) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc has just a few more months to put its stamp on the Volcker rule, ...

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Finally, an Issue We Can All Agree on: Campaign Finance Reform

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: McCain Feingold, Tarp, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Rally to Restore Sanity, Stephen Colbert, Billions, Hispanic Voter Suppression, Third World America, Jon Stewart, Political Ads, Arianna Huffington, Politics News
Joan E. Dowlin

How the midterm elections will turn out will be very interesting. But whatever the outcome, we can agree we want civility in D.C. And that means we need campaign finance reform and we need it now.

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New York Fed Transparency: Bank To Disclose Which Securities Were Bought In AIG Bailout

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Timothy Geithner, Bush, Aig, Obama, Mortgages, American Insurance Group, White House, Bailout, Billions, Securities, New York Fed, Bernanke, Assets, Taxpayer Money, Banks, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Business News

WASHINGTON — After two years of secrecy, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is disclosing key details about billions of dollars of risky inves...

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Report: Health Care System Wastes Up to $850 Billion Annually

Politics Daily | David Sessions | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malpractice, Fraud, Medical Mistakes, Thomson Reuters, Paperwork, Preventable Conditions, Billions, Inefficiency, Administrative Inefficiency, American Health Care System, Billions of Dollars, Waste, Unnecessary Care, Fradulent Medicare Claims, Health Care, Business News

According to a report by Thomson Reuters, the American health care system wastes between $505 billion and $850 billion every year, which is up to a th...

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Toxic Assets: Government's New Programs Aim To Buy Buy Banks' Bad Assets, Help Home Buyers

Washington Post | Renae Merle and David Cho | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Finance, Tax Credits, Banks, Troubled Assets, Housing and Economic Recovery Act, Mortgages, Fannie Mae, Recession, Obama, Real Estate, Bad Assets, Geithner, Billions, Freddie Mac, Toxic Assets, Housing, Treasury, Lending, Tarp, Business News

The Obama administration is close to rolling out two initiatives aimed at addressing lingering problems from the financial crisis: A long-delayed effo...

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The Train That Never Was

James Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miami, Florida, Billions, Tampa, Trains, High Speed Rail, Texas, Orlando, Jeb, Bush, Jeb Bush, Stimulus Package, Politics News
James Moore

The Florida Overland Express was the train that never was. If built on the projected schedule, it would be carrying 8 million passengers this year -- it was vetoed by Jeb Bush.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, India, Warship, Chas Freeman, Freeman, Obama, Iran, Submarine, Nuclear, Brown, Sallai Meridor, Ukraine, Medvedev, Clinton, Gaza, Donors Conference, Billions, Sudan, Cricket, Hague, Washington, Guinea-Bissau, Palestinian National Authority, Assassination, Taliban, Aipac, China, Ambassador, Paksitan, Foreign Affairs, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan's Civil War? Facts: Gunmen attack the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday and...

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