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Nearly a year after Democrats introduced legislation to reform the health care industry – first by flirting with the prospect of having a government-run program to compete with pri…

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By Rachel Beck

The city of Los Angeles is putting banks it does business with on the spot.

The unanimous directive coming from the city council is that banks need to help Los Angeles slow the pace o…

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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported that in February 2010, U.S. freight railroads saw a 1.5 percent decline in carloads compared with the same month la…

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Within a month of becoming president of the Santa Fe-based Permaculture Credit Union—a unique financial institution based, as the name suggests, on eco-friendly principles—Don Sa…

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While President Obama’s push to raise federal income taxes for the wealthy gets lots of attention, the continuing upward creep in the sales tax rates imposed by state and loca…

Connecticut’s attorney general sued Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s over ratings the firms issued on risky investments.

In the civil lawsuit filed Wednesday, Atty. Gen. Richard …

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The U.S. budget deficit widened to a record in February as the government boosted spending to help revive the economy.

The excess of spending over revenue increased to $221 …

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Bay Area permaculture designer Eric Broberg explains the need for greywater and gives a walk-through of one of the systems he has installed in Oakland.

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, …

By Megan Quinn Bachman

…The good news is that it hasn’t been all hard times for these lifestyle leaders. Many changes have made their lives better, like adopting a low-energy and local diet, g…

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from those nights in Tian’anmen Square.
It’s coming from the feel
that this ain’t exactly …

By Gary Null
So, here is the raw data. The next time you see the head of one of these private corporations appearing as an objective independent expert on CNBC, CNN or FOX, return to this list an…

By Nicholas Carlson

The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004. 

Then called “thef…

Mish Shedlock has another story out about how government is broke and union workers are selfishly asking for pay raises in the face of these fiscal catastrophes.

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The U.S. Census Bureau has awarded IBM (NYSE: IBM) Global Business Services a contract to provide data tabulation and dissemination services in support of the 2010 Census and other key Census Bureau…

By Mayuri Onerheim

The Rolling Stone March 2009 issue had an article by Matt Taibbi called Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle in which he likens the financial crisis bailout to a street con and makes a v…

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Microsoft has acted swiftly after the Web site Cryptome leaked its “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook.” The guide does exactly what it says: outli…

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Billionaire Warren Buffett says health care costs are a major drain on U.S. businesses and act like an “economic tape worm.”

The head of the holding company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said…

Tracy (California) residents will now have to pay every time they call 9-1-1 for a medical emergency.

But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year which allo…

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