Countrywide and HUD
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on 4 May 2015
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10 years ago
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ Countrywide Is First Mortgage Lender to Voluntarily Agree to Fair Lending Goals with HUD PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's largest mortgage lender and servicer, Countrywide ...
Failure of Keynesnian Policys to Keep Jobs, Create Sensible Loan Policies
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on 29 Apr 2015
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10 years ago
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa Yes, it did. We use exogenous variation in banks incentives to conform to the standards of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) around regulatory exam dates to trace out ...
Consumption Tax to normalize GINI curve?
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on 7 Nov 2014
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10 years ago
"Gates shares Piketty’s goal of spreading wealth, yet he doesn’t want to discourage the uber wealthy (like Gates) who are taking risks, investing in value-creating businesses, and helping the ...
Why the low Cg?
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on 6 Nov 2014
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10 years ago
After the 2010 elections, there was gloating about. It lasted for weeks, months. Democrats it appeared, had a high Coefficient of Gloating (Cg). Why the low Cg for Republicans? ...
Atlas Shrugging?
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on 27 Oct 2014
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10 years ago
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ When the Obama administration announced new rules last month aimed at making so-called corporate inversions less profitable, it was far from clear just how successful they would be ...
Freedom of Censorship
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on 6 Oct 2014
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10 years ago
Wow, Cnn pulled the video. http://us.cnn.com/2014/10/06/s This is Fox News Fault!
How to handle Pandemics
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on 3 Oct 2014
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10 years ago
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com The regulations, proposed in 2005 during the Bush administration amid fears of avian flu, would have given the federal government additional powers to detain sick airline passengers and ...
Why did the Middle Class Disapear?
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on 23 Sep 2014
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10 years ago
People, to net it down, the US had 20+% of jobs in manufacturing in 1980. Now we have 320M people with $700B and have science R&D
Free Pot for those who will vote for Democrats
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on 4 Sep 2014
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10 years ago
http://www.foxnews.com/politic Weed welfare? Thats what the Berkeley City Council in California has unanimously approved, ordering medical marijuana dispensaries to donate 2 percent of their stash to patients making less ...
Hillary: Pragmatic, Centrist, or running for election?
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on 12 Aug 2014
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10 years ago
http://politicalticker.blogs.c Hillary Clinton reached out to President Barack Obama on Tuesday to tell him that headline-grabbing comments she made about his foreign policy were not meant as a political ...
"Bolshevik" who is "taking cues from Lenin"
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on 4 Aug 2014
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10 years ago
http://mediamatters.org/resear Jim Cramer has repeatedly characterized President Obama and congressional Democrats as Russian communists intent on "rampant wealth destruction," claiming Obama is "taking cues from Lenin" and using terms ...
JDs versus Engineers
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on 10 Feb 2014
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11 years ago
Most of us agree that there has been bubbles, but most of us cannot agree why they start, why efforts to recognize them get thwarted, and why bad policies ...
Full Option Science System
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on 9 Nov 2013
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11 years ago
At our local Elementary School, they are commencing the Full Option Science System. Last year however, the Principle talked to parents extensively about the schools dedicated Science Class. The ...
Affordable Boat Act of 2014
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on 4 Nov 2013
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11 years ago
The U.S. government has just passed a new law called: "The affordable boat act" declaring that every citizen MUST purchase a new boat, by April 2014. These "affordable" boats ...
Schiller as Bubble Czar, consultant to Fed
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on 16 Oct 2013
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11 years ago
Do we need a financial Bubble Czar? Would a pragmatist be good for the USA, help rein in the distortions caused by Wall St., CDOs, FHA, Freddie, Fannie, the ...
Economic Growth and Investment
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on 28 Nov 2012
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12 years ago
http://news.investors.com/1121 Anyone who thinks that President Obama's economic policies will spur strong growth should consider U-Haul rates between California and Texas. Renting a 20-foot truck one-way from San Francisco ...
CRA Advocates Forced end of Glass Stegal
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on 19 Nov 2012
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12 years ago
Looks like Clinton, Dodd, bullied Gramm into the Glass Stegal changes in the late 1990s. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10
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