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Fannie, Freddie cleared to pump $200 billion into market (Patrick Rucker)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Wednesday eased capital requirements for the two biggest housing finance agencies, allowing them to pump up to $200 billion ...
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Open-Air Sex Plan for Vondel Park Angers Amsterdam Residents (Martijn van der Starre)
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Amsterdam, known worldwide for its leniency to marijuana use, is courting more controversy with plans to decriminalize open-air sex in its most popular park.
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'Big Rally' for Stocks to Continue, Jim Rogers Says (Carol Massar and Eric Martin)
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks, which surged the most in five years yesterday, will likely continue their rally this year because the ``out of control'' Federal Reserve is cutting interest ...
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Our Joshua (Mary Lyon)
Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust "I may not get there with you..." So said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., once upon a time, talking about a figurative Promised Land that he himself would ...
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Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90 (Ravi Nessman)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home ...
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U.S. Stocks Rally on Goldman, Lehman Earnings, Fed Rate Cut (Eric Martin)
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rallied the most in five years as earnings from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. allayed concern investment banks are collapsing and the ...
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End of Wall Street as We Know It (Shawn Tully)
Financial firms have relied on a highly flawed business model for years. The time has come to fix it.
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Fed Cuts Main Rate to 2.25%, Says Outlook `Weakened' (Craig Torres)
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve cut its main lending rate by three quarters of a percentage point to 2.25 percent as officials try to prop up the faltering economy and restore faith in ...
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The Street on Welfare (E.J. Dionne, Jr.)
Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the ...
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Members Of The Earth Liberation Front Are Mad! Why Aren’t We? (Jason Miller)
``Of Mommies and Daddies Who Just Don’t Give a Fuck'' -- Sorry kids, but you’re just going to have to deal with the fact that we are greedy narcissists. We’re dyed in the wool consumers, we worship ...
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