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Senate takes a stab at financial reform
The head of a key banking panel is expected Monday to release a draft bill of sweeping regulatory changes aimed at warding off future collapses in the financial system.
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Is the Fed blowing bubbles?
Is the Federal Reserve forever blowing bubbles?
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Yellen in line for Fed No. 2
San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen is the leading contender to be the next vice chairman of the central bank, a senior Obama administration official told CNN Friday.
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Mortgage help: 170,000 get aid
More than 170,000 troubled homeowners are breathing a lasting sigh of relief now that they've received permanent modifications under the Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program.
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Health care: Going from broken to broke
A few nights ago in the historic Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis, Mo., President Obama reassured a crowd of Senator Claire McCaskill supporters that health-care reform wouldn't just be good for their health, it would be good for the health of the country: "I said at the beginning of this thing we would not do anything that adds to our deficit," he said to the clapping audience. "This plan does not do anything to add to this deficit. And that's how we should be operating."
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Exxon's growing reliance on expensive oil
Exxon Mobil outlined plans Thursday that rely heavily on oil from tough to reach places, extracting it from the depths of the ocean, the frozen Arctic and the tar sands in Canada's frozen tundra.
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Give money to a jobless friend?
Dear Annie: I have a very close friend who's been out of work for almost a year now. He was my college roommate: I've known him for almost 20 years and, for about half that time, we worked at the same company. Then he got laid off. Last week one of my kids told me that my friend's youngest son missed out on a ski trip with the rest of his class because of the expense, even though the cost was minimal (to those of us with jobs).
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Some nurses paid more than family doctors
Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians' salaries.
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Trying to flunk banks out of college
President Obama has been waging a war with banks over who gets to dole out cheap student loans backed by the federal government.
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Households recovering from economic freefall
The net worth of American households increased slightly during the final three months of 2009, the Federal Reserve said Thursday.
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Financial reform bill coming from Democrats
Senate Democrats on banking panel plan to release and start working on a financial overhaul bill next week, without Republican support.
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Why the U.S. can't inflate its way out of debt
It's dawning on people that getting a handle on burgeoning U.S. debt will be a long and hard process.
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Brighter outlook for international airlines
The international airline business is improving, said an industry group Thursday, and while losses are still expected for 2010, they should be half the size previously forecast.
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Retail Sales
April 14
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Job Growth
April 2
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Manufacturing (ISM)
April 1
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GDP
March 26
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Consumer Confidence
March 30
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Home Prices
March 30
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Inflation (CPI)
March 18
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