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Wall Street's Collateral Damage (Before You Take Public Transportation, Ask Your Banker)

Les Leopold | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business

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As soon as anyone calls for tight controls on Wall Street, pundits and politicians rush to the defense of "financial innovation."

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Is The New York Subway System Safe? (POLL)

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York

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Since the deadly Metro crash on Monday that killed nine people in Washington, New Yorkers have been looking for reassurance that the New York system, ...

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Train Crash, Washington D.C. Investigated By Feds

AP | SARAH KARUSH and BRIAN WESTLEY | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Investigators looking into the deadly crash of two Metro transit trains focused Tuesday on why a computerized system failed to halt...

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