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Betting on the sagacity of Congress is risky, to say the least. So let's assume the worst and imagine that the $700 billion bailout doesn't pass anytime soon. What happens then? Is it true that "this sucker could go down," as President Bush put it...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 3 days 27 minutes ago
With America divided right down the middle for the third presidential election in a row, most people would not be surprised to hear that Democratic and Republican partisans perceive a widening gap between their presidential choices. In 2004, for example, die-hards in both parties felt...(more)
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Congressional leaders say they have reached deal to allow government to purchase $700bn in troubled debt
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 4 days 20 hours 27 minutes ago
John McCain wore the more presidential tie -- that much can be said for him -- but Barack Obama displayed the more presidential temperament, or the kind of demeanor people presumably would want in a president, when the two candidates met at the University of...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 5 days 27 minutes ago
If you worked at Saturday Night Live and had to construct a parody of what Republican wing nuts might come up with as a solution to the current financial crisis, you simply couldn't do better than the loopy plan served up by House Republicans this...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 6 days 27 minutes ago
You're angry. I'm angry. House Republicans are angry. We're all angry at having to put up huge amounts of cash to rescue a financial system because a lot of very rich people rolled the dice with other people's money and lost. Now let me tell...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 6 days 16 hours 26 minutes ago
Dear Harry: I lived in Ohio until 2003, when I moved to Philly. My tax returns were prepared by a fellow in a real-estate office, and I never had a problem . . . until now. I was just notified by the IRS that my tax...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 10 weeks 1 day 21 hours 27 minutes ago
With the financial markets swirling like Hurricane Ike, many investors in the Thrift Savings Plan for federal employees are acting as if they've just chilled in a yoga class and now are taking Rudyard Kipling's advice to "keep your head when all about you are...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 10 weeks 2 days 19 hours 27 minutes ago
David Brooks is used to hanging around with liberals -- his wife and three children, among others, support Barack Obama -- but has grown angry at the condescending talk about Sarah Palin. "Three times someone told me they thought she was trailer trash," the New...(more)
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Potomac Confidential fills the midday lull with discussion by Metro columnist Marc Fisher who looks at the latest news with a rigorous slicing and dicing of the issues that define who we are and where we live. This week he examines the Virginia U.S. Senate...(more)
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Larry Elliott, the Guardian economics editor, says the banking failures and market crisis show that the economic system needs an overhaul
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