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The Gathering Inn: Bed, Breakfast... And Beyond (Carolyn Baker)
Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson, creators of the powerful documentary "What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire," now own and operate the Gathering Inn in Hancock, Vermont -- a lovely bed and ...
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Oil Short Squeeze Prompts Call to Curtail Speculators (Tina Seeley)
Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. lawmakers may seek to include commodity speculation limits in legislation designed to rescue banks from bad mortgage investments after a squeeze in oil trading sent ...
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10 Things You Should Know About Bush's Trillion Dollar Fleecing Plan (Alternet Staff)
Here's a roundup of what opponents of the Bush-Paulson plan are saying.
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Paulson Debt Plan May Benefit Mostly Goldman, Morgan (Jody Shenn)
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley may be among the biggest beneficiaries of the $700 billion U.S. plan to buy assets from financial companies while many banks see ...
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The Shadow Banking System is Unravelling (Nouriel Roubini)
Last week saw the demise of the shadow banking system that has been created over the past 20 years. Because of a greater regulation of banks, most financial intermediation in the past two decades ...
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Falling Into Fall (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- So many shoes are poised to drop this week that the American scene might be confused for the world's greatest-ever clog dancing festival, but a closer look will reveal a circle ...
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Lawmakers Battle Over Rescue Plan (Greg Hitt, Damien Paletta, Deborah Solomon)
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers are scrambling to put their mark on the Bush administration's $700 billion plan to save financial markets -- a fast-moving test of wills that could reshape one of the biggest ...
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Goldman, Morgan Stanley Bring Down Curtain on an Era (Christine Harper, Craig Torres)
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The Wall Street that shaped the financial world for two decades ended last night, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley concluded there is no future in remaining ...
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Billions for Bailouts! Who Pays? (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
The current financial crisis facing our country has been caused by the extreme right-wing economic policies pursued by the Bush administration. These policies, which include huge tax breaks for the ...
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