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55 missed TARP payments in October?

Just imagine how pleasant these financial companies would be if you did the same to them. That's OK though, because these businesses are more important than common people and get special privileges....

Started in AMERICAblog News • 5 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: credit crisis
Dogs gone wild

The dogs were not pleased that we locked them in the kitchen while we had a family dinner over Thanksgiving. Koukla is on the left, Carmela on the right. I love about 19 seconds in how they both...

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Tags: fun stuff
Yawn...another investigation into Wall Street fleecing customers

And surprise, surprise, another tie to the new Obama team. This same old story gets increasingly old during this administration that talked so much about change. It's the same old problem involving...

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Tags: wall street
It's Christmas cookie time!

As we've done every year since the 1960s, last night was Christmas cookie making time. As I've written before, every Christmas we make cookies, using an old recipe my mom got in the 50s or 60s, to...

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Santa setting a bad example?

Say it ain't so!

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Obama on the health insurance bill

The President gave a speech after the health insurance bill passed in the Senate. Here's what he had to say:In a historic vote that took place this morning members of the Senate joined their...

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Tags: health care
Health insurance bill just passed in the Senate

With Vice President Biden presiding, the Senate has passed its version of the health insurance bill by a vote of 60 - 39. A simple majority was need for final passage. Every single member of the...

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Tags: health care
Yule goat burns, again

Oh the humanity. Or something like that. Here's the cute goat in the town of Gävle, Sweden before the burning started. Maybe there's a Swedish reader or someone who knows more about the local...

Started in AMERICAblog News • 6 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: european union
Barclays hands out pay raises for investment bankers

Merry Christmas! It's as if the credit crisis never happened. This is what happens when you save an industry from complete collapse and fail to dictate the terms. The only people who are more...

Started in AMERICAblog News • 6 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: uk, banks
The news that insurers hate this bill was a tad premature

From The Nation's "The Beat" blog:"Health care investors find themselves having confronted their greatest fear, and, while there will be legislation, it will be significantly watered down ..."...

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Tags: health care
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