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Chuck Schumer's Tax Reform Plan Is Only Making Things Worse
I don’t see how Sen. Chuck Schumer’s speech on tax reform yesterday helped anything — other than providing further clarity on how Democrats are going to try and deal with the exploding national debt:...
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During A Violent Incident At A Greek Theater, An Elected Official Went On An...
Earlier we reported that a Greek journalist (@manolis on Twitter) tweeted his experience of getting beaten up by Golden Dawn members during an incident in Athens today. We must warn you before going on...
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The New US Trade Data Points To An Economy In Decline
I recently penned an article entitled "3 Major Risks To The 4th Quarter" wherein we discussed the impact of the Eurozone recession, and slowdown in China, on the domestic economy. In it we stated "The...
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How The World Uses Rare Earth Metals [Infographic]
Rare earth metals are an essential ingredient of many of the consumer products we use every day. China produces 95 percent of the world's rare earths, and as a result, it's important to understand how...
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CNBC's Steve Liesman Did A Magnificent Job Interviewing Simpson And Bowles —...
The big event on CNBC today was Steve Liesman interviewing Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Erskine Bowles, and former Alan Simpson on the fiscal cliff and the deficit. Erskine Bowles and Alan...
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Joe Biden And Paul Ryan Went Head-To-Head In The Vice Presidential Debate
Vice President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan squared off tonight in the one and only vice presidential debate of the 2012 campaign, clashing on the economy and extensively on foreign...
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Joe Biden Zings Paul Ryan: 'Not A Single Thing He Said Was True'
Vice President Joe Biden scored the first zinger of the vice presidential debate Thursday, slamming his Republican opponent Paul Ryan over his criticism of the Obama administration's response to the...
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Biden Slams Ryan On Israel: 'I've Been Friends With Bibi Netanyahu For 39 Years'
Vice President Joe Biden really got rolling when tonight's debate turned to the Obama administration's policies toward Israel and Iran. Responding to Ryan's claim that President Barack Obama opted to...
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UPDATE: Obama InTrade Rally Fades After Debate Ends
After an initial gain, the Obama InTrade rally faded at the end of the VP Debate. Please follow Politics on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »
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INSTANT POLL: Joe Biden Shredded Paul Ryan In The Vice Presidential Debate
A CBS instant poll of undecided voters taken immediately after tonight's vice presidential debate found that Vice President Joe Biden handily beat Republican hopeful Paul Ryan among a group of...
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What Did Joe Biden Whisper To Paul Ryan During The Debate?
A curious exchange happened off-mic during Thursday's vice presidential debate, with Joe Biden apparently muttering something under his breath to Paul Ryan after a heated exchange over entitlement...
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CNN POLL: Paul Ryan Sailed Past Joe Biden In VP Debate
Republican candidate Paul Ryan beat Vice President Joe Biden, 48 percent to 44 percent, in the vice presidential debate Thursday night, according to a nationwide poll conducted by CNN right after the...
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THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
t's official! The EU has won the Nobel Peace Prize. As noted below, the news was broken about an hour ago by Norwegian state broadcaster NRK.no about an hour before the announcement. Now it's been...
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Markets Are Moving Higher
It's a fairly quiet morning, but markets are generally moving higher. Spain and Italy are up about 0.2%. US futures are up a bit more than that. There's not too much going on yet, other than last...
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Rail Traffic Trends Are Continuing To Weaken
Rail traffic trends continue to weaken as this week’s intermodal traffic report came in at 3.8% year over year growth. This is up slightly from last week’s reading of 2.5%, but brings the 3 month...
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The Market Is Showing Signs Of Topping Out, And The Bad News Has Not Been...
The market is facing severe headwinds in the period ahead and is showing early signs of topping out. Recently, there have been seven distribution days on the S&P 500 and NYSE and five on Nasdaq, a...
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REDFIN: House Prices Rise 5% Year-Over-Year
From Redfin: Home Prices Dip Slightly from August to September, Still Up 5% from 2011 in Redfin Real-Time Home Price Tracker Redfin today released its Real-Time Home Price Tracker for September 2012,...
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The European Union Was A Brilliant Choice For The Nobel Peace Prize
The European Union has won the Nobel Peace Prize, and given the dysfunctions in Europe right now, this is being greeted with a lot of jokes and skepticism. And frankly, given some of the past winners...
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Inflationists Will Be Shocked By One Detail In Today's Consumer Confidence...
Earlier this morning, we learned that the widely followed University of Michigan consumer confidence reading jumped to 83.1, a five-year high. This was driven by a jump in consumer expectations....
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JOB OF THE WEEK: Director of Supply Chain Administrationi
Check out the Business Insider Jobs section >> As part of our new partnership with CareerBuilder.com, each week we'll feature one of the awesome jobs advertised on the Business Insider jobs...
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