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Stimulus Money Shouldn't Go Overseas, Say Democratic Senators

AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A group of Democratic senators urged the Obama administration to suspend an economic stimulus program aimed at financing renewable ...

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Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.

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Banks' Bad Assets Rise 149 Percent

msn.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Foreclosures and bad loans raced through the banking industry in 2008, with the more than 8,000 U.S. banks registering a 149 percent increase in troub...

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