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Letterman's Running Gag About Crashing Obama/Oprah Dinner on Martha's Vineyard: Hasn't Dave Heard Teddy Kennedy Died?

Michael Russnow | Posted 09.27.2009 | Comedy

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Michael Russnow

David Letterman continued joking about not being invited to dinner with Oprah and Obama in Martha's Vineyard even after he knew the president was delivering a eulogy for Ted Kennedy on Saturday.

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Fed Audit Supported By 75% Of Americans: Survey

Posted 08.30.2009 | Business

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The calls to audit the Federal Reserve have come fast and furious in the last few weeks. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is continuing to push back against ...

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Who Can we Bank on as Crisis Gets Worse?

Danny Schechter | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business

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Danny Schechter

Washington seems tethered at the hip to Wall Street and continues to do its bidding. Obama wants to give us confidence, but the most trenchant critics believe a total collapse is in the offing.

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Why The Government Can't "Fix" the Crisis

Danny Schechter | Posted 11.25.2008 | Business

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Danny Schechter

In what was for many an unbelievable chain of events, markets started melting down, confidence shattered and believers in unregulated transactions realized something was very, very wrong.

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The Black-Scholes Atomic Debt Bomb & 7 Predictions

Max Keiser | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business

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Max Keiser

By not deflating the supply of fiat, debt-based exchange units for so many years, the over supply of them, each a claim on America's future, has grown by quantum levels of risk.

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Freddie Mac, When Are You Coming Back?

Danny Schechter | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business

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Danny Schechter

As housing implodes, is our nation at an economic tipping point?

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Fed Sees Economic Woes Spilling Into 2009

New York Times | Stephen Labaton | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business

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Federal policy makers have concluded that the turmoil plaguing the housing and financial markets is likely to spill deep into 2009, becoming one of th...

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Federal Reserve Bank Of New York Has World's Biggest Stash Of Gold

Forbes | Liz Moyer with Tatiana Shumsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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Gold trading at near-record highs above $900 an ounce begs the question: Who's got the most? If you guessed the U.S. government, you're right, sort o...

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