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Tax hikes in california - bill proposed.
by FortWayne on 13 May 2011   2 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://www.aroundthecapitol.co (This bill will allow local school districts and other city/county councils to levy income and other types of taxes independently from state/federal. Democrats are really ramming this bill ...

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President Obama promising immigration reform (amnesty)
by FortWayne on 10 May 2011   18 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ "Obama invoked the successes of immigrants who went on to found Google Inc. (GOOG), Intel Corp. (INTC) and Yahoo! Inc. as proof that keeping the country open to ...

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More taxes in CA (proposal SB 653)
by FortWayne on 11 May 2011   2 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://morejobsnottaxes.com/?p This link is about voting against it. Has anyone done much research into this issue. Is this just another huge tax hike?

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Investing advice from FisherInvestment
by FortWayne on 10 May 2011   2 comments, latest 15 years ago
PDF article titled "the eight biggest mistakes investors make." #investing

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Bills to curb some union power abuses
by FortWayne on 9 May 2011   11 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://online.wsj.com/article/ Here is a quote by someone on WSJ: "...my right, and every other citizen's right (in non-"right to work" states) to negotiate and effectuate an employment agreement with ...

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interest rate decline article.
by FortWayne on 2 May 2011   1 comment, latest 15 years ago
http://online.wsj.com/article/ probably means 2011 is not a good time to buy. based on the inverse interest rate vs price relationship. #investing

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Heads up on potential new bubble.
by FortWayne on 8 Apr 2011   Posted 15 years ago
http://online.wsj.com/article/ #bubbles

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Prop to end corporate tax loopholes - email from Dianne Feinstein
by FortWayne on 8 Apr 2011   Posted 15 years ago
Got this email from Dianne Feinstein this morning. I bolded the portion that talks about fixing tax loopholes. Thank you for contacting me to express your concerns about the ...

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Sometimes tax cuts are a bad idea.
by FortWayne on 31 Mar 2011   Posted 15 years ago
http://www.prospercalifornia.c - Corporate tax cut off. - Land improvement tax is cut off. - Income tax is abolished for 150,000 of income. One awesome way to bankrupt the state, ...

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One more reason why housing will be ballooned for next few years.
by FortWayne on 18 Mar 2011   Posted 15 years ago
http://online.wsj.com/article/ (30 year rates are still down) #housing

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Unemployment might be going back up. (might)
by FortWayne on 18 Mar 2011   Posted 15 years ago
Not sure if this is of any significance, a lot of folks I know have been getting laid off lately out in Ventura county.

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Bank of America leaks (also an interesting animation explaining it all)
by FortWayne on 15 Mar 2011   Posted 15 years ago
This is linked from one of the links on the front page by patrick. http://bankofamericasuck.com/ - Apparently someone is blowing a whistle and even made an animation on how ...

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Is this a case of Councilman trying to push his loss onto taxpayers?
by FortWayne on 7 Mar 2011   9 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://huntingtonhomes.ocregis (Front page of Patrick.net). A story of how a politician decided to stop paying his mortgage, which is reasonable. But than ended up suing the bank because he ...

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$875,000 a year - government job (In California)
by FortWayne on 5 Mar 2011   5 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://latimesblogs.latimes.co

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Interesting article from patrick.net
by FortWayne on 4 Mar 2011   Posted 15 years ago
This is linked on the front page. Lists old congressional members who are no longer in office and where they went. http://www.remappingdebate.org The one that caught my eye was: ...

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Investing in coffee production?
by FortWayne on 27 Feb 2011   5 comments, latest 15 years ago
Hi guys, I've been thinking about this stuff lately. My wife and I do own some Starbucks and CoffeeBean stocks. (The two big coffee house chains). They have grown ...

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Fannie and Freddie phaseout proposed (slowly overtime) - WSJ
by FortWayne on 10 Feb 2011   25 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://online.wsj.com/article/

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Diana Feinstein (CA senator) - her email response to me about WikiLeaks.
by FortWayne on 14 Feb 2011   2 comments, latest 15 years ago
I guess she has gotten so many emails on this topic that they actually made a template. Here is the email from the senator (probably staff, I doubt she ...

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Special Inspector General (TARP) - why HAMP failed.
by FortWayne on 14 Feb 2011   Posted 15 years ago
http://www.sigtarp.gov/reports It's mainly about bailouts and the disastrous effect of picking winners and rewarding risky behavior "Heads you win, tails the government bails you out." This full report also ...

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Crony capitalism.
by FortWayne on 5 Feb 2011   Posted 15 years ago
http://dailybail.com/home/warr front page on patrick.net right now. This is the stuff that upsets me the most. We bail out the rich people (100% on their bad bets) and they ...

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Really fun article on patrick.net (About Santa Monica, CA real estate)
by FortWayne on 27 Jan 2011   2 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://www.doctorhousingbubble I love the responses down there: "Lord Help Us! $865,000 for a house built in 1911? Oh, hell no! Insanity!" #housing

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Outsourcing America and State Of The Union.
by FortWayne on 27 Jan 2011   19 comments, latest 15 years ago
I got this interesting email, it is very well written so I decided it's a good place to share and see what others think. It is this article: http://zunguzungu.wordpress.co ...

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WSJ article on bank bailouts and foreclosures.
by FortWayne on 28 Jan 2011   Posted 15 years ago
http://online.wsj.com/article/ #housing

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Interesting article on patrick.net
by FortWayne on 12 Jan 2011   3 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ This is on the front page of Patrick.net I'm curious as to what are everyones opinions on this article.

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(Healthcare Reform) Healthcare bubble and how long before a painful crash?
by FortWayne on 19 Jan 2011   35 comments, latest 15 years ago
Wondering if others think the same way. The way healthcare reform personally affected me is it put a $6,000 additional of my money per year from whatever I would ...

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Swiss banking (cayman islands tax evasion) is going public. (from wikiLeaks)
by FortWayne on 16 Jan 2011   11 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://m.guardian.co.uk/media/ I'm really looking forward to writing to my congresswoman to address this huge tax loophole. The way I see it, we all pay insane taxes, but our taxes ...

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Another crooked realtor arrested.
by FortWayne on 17 Jan 2011   8 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://www.enewspf.com/latest- This is on the front page of patrick.net already. Would be nice if such investigations were more prevalent in California. (Many) Realtors out here often run around with ...

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National deficit visual (from livescience)
by FortWayne on 4 Jan 2011   Posted 15 years ago
this was linked from livescience http://www.lifeslittlemysterie

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British Guantanamo - from wikiLeaks.
by FortWayne on 4 Jan 2011   Posted 15 years ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ (this is from wikileaks twitter feed) I guess (Not so Great) Britain has their own Guantanamo.

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Video from WikiLeaks
by FortWayne on 20 Dec 2010   Posted 15 years ago
http://www.hl4NlA97GeQ (It is made with a lot of humor to a rap song) can see it on twitter.com/wikileaks as well. When the person playing hillary comes out, her lyrics ...

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Tax cuts - and how much will it affect you - Calculator
by FortWayne on 12 Dec 2010   7 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://www.mytaxburden.org/ Compromised plan does give me the most $$ and least taxes. Not sure if that policy would be inflationary, after all if everyone gets more money that is ...

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US Lobbies on behalf of Visa and Mastercard - Guardian on behalf of WL
by FortWayne on 8 Dec 2010   2 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl They won't succeed. But more so this just points out that US government has a very clubby nature of "you rub my back and I'll rub yours". [attempt ...

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New Wikileaks address - Dec 04, 2010 - .nl extension
by FortWayne on 4 Dec 2010   2 comments, latest 15 years ago
if [name] is equal to "wikileaks" following links are the only once that seem to work. [name].nl can also find on twitter twitter.com/[name] list of mirrors: http://www.twitlonger.com/show I took ...

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New WikiLeaks address
by FortWayne on 3 Dec 2010   Posted 15 years ago
wikileaks.ch Some people are trying really hard to kill access to this information.

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WikiLeaks got closed off.
by FortWayne on 1 Dec 2010   10 comments, latest 15 years ago
http://www.computerworld.com/s http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Not sure if this has anything to do with them promising to post 5GB of BofA data, but the timing of it does make one wonder of ...
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