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 <title>Economic Policy Snark from Tyler Cowen (348602)</title>
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 <description>Tyler writes:Marginal Revolution: You can stop worrying: Martin Feldstein and John Taylor reassure us:    And by maintaining strong control over the growth of government spending, Mr. McCain will bring the budget into balance. His long record of figh...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:30:37 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Market Wrap Week Ending 9/5/08</title>
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 <description>Gold and other commodities had a tough week     again. The selling has been relentless as cries of deleveraging circle the globe     liquidity now is the name of the game. Whatever will fetch a price is gone in a blink as the next item goes up for bi...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:33:08 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Gold Thoughts</title>
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 <description>Gold Bugs, this week around the world, will be joining together to celebrate the greatest financial collapse in history, past or future. In bureaucrat-speak, a conservatorship for FNM &amp; FRE is being created. However, Gold Bugs know a duck when they s...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:33:05 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Silver: How low will it go?</title>
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 <description>There is no question that precious metals have been pummeled lately and anyone who has been long the sector has seen their portfolios bleed red. As of Friday, Sep 5 2008 silver closed down nearly 5% at a new 12 month low. It has decisively broken thr...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:33:01 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Will Incumbents Stifle Innovation?</title>
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 <description> Earlier today, I spent a delightful hour with Vinnie Mirchandani, a well respected analyst in the enterprise software industry, mostly because he knows how to figure out the impact of big technological trends on software. Accompanying him was George...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:33:45 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Gentle progress in pediatric imaging</title>
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 <description>As I   ve written, I   m concerned about excessive radiation received by kids in CT scans. Part of the problem is too many scans. Another problem is the failure of radiologists to reduce the power settings on the CT scanner when imaging kids. The Ima...</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:17:10 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>The Cultural Politics of the American Media</title>
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 <description>Matthew Yglesias writes:  Matthew Yglesias: You should definitely read this post from Ta-Nehisi Coates. It   s a reminder that part of what drives the conservative meta-narrative about    authentic    working class conservatives versus liberal elites...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:39:15 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>The Band, Elwood, The Band!</title>
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 <description>Well, we spend alot of time trying to disabuse everyone from lazy volatility analysis along the lines  20 VIX is cheap  without any context. Clearly a system that involves some sort of Moving Average analysis is preferable, such as the most famous on...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:49:00 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>How many asset classes?</title>
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 <description>There is a larger question that must be asked in discussing the recent introduction of new Claymore funds tracking global real estate and infrastructure: just how many asset classes does a portfolio need? How much more diversification benefits can re...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:48:28 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>John Hempton on Frannie (348562)</title>
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 <description>Let me, for one, endorse pretty much everything he says:Bronte Capital: The Reality Based Community and Frannie: I estimated the earnings power of Fannie Mae at about 10 billion per annum. Fannie has something near a trillion in debt... at 130bps ove...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:30:33 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>The Housing Crisis, Latest Move (348565)</title>
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 <description>Henry Paulson did it: he nationalized the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:hp-1129: Statement by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers: Washington, DC-- Good mo...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:30:29 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>When Did the Econom Peak? (348589)</title>
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 <description>I say the economy reached its last business-cycle peak in December 2007.Menzie Chinn:Econbrowser: Three Pictures from the August Employment Situation Release: Figure 2: Log nonfarm payroll employment figures (blue) and log aggregate weekly hours inde...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:30:26 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Fannie and Freddie Press Conference Videos</title>
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 <description>In three parts (all about 10 minutes each).   Our economy and our markets will not recover until the bulk of this housing correction is behind us. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Sept 7, 2008 (see part 2)...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:18:00 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>The Bailout</title>
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 <description>I haven&#039;t been able to devote much thought to the bailout yet, so let me turn the microphone over to others. Tyler Cowen explains why the bailout is needed:What if we didn&#039;t bail out the creditors?, by Tyler Cowen: ...[L]et&#039;s say that the Treasury di...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:03:00 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Ten Banks That Will Be Hurt By the FNM and FRE Government Takeover</title>
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 <description>The  government  takeover  of Fannie Mae (FNM) and Feddie Mac (FRE) should be a positive for most banks.   The deal will lower mortgage rates  and will also allow the Treasury Department to  purchase mortgage-backed securities from firms in the open ...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:56:21 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Futures Up Triple Digits on Bailout</title>
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 <description>  And the Nikkei 225 opened up +306.91 that&#039;s plus +2.5% to 12,519.14 as of 9/8 9:15am Tokyo time.I love the headlines that accompany this: Asian Stocks, U.S. Futures Rally on Fannie, Freddie Takeover    Yeah! We&#039;re all Socialists now!    Here&#039;s your...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:29:02 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Economic Policy Snark from Tyler Cowen</title>
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 <description>Tyler writes:Marginal Revolution: You can stop worrying: Martin Feldstein and John Taylor reassure us:And by maintaining strong control over the growth of government spending, Mr. McCain will bring the budget into balance. His long record of fighti...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:23:37 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Competitive Markets and Discrimination Against Minorities-Becker</title>
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 <description>An eye-opening article in the New York Times on August 29th discusses the effects of India&#039;s economic reforms and subsequent economic growth on the poverty and progress of the untouchables. This is India&#039;s lowest and poorest caste whose members have ...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:08:54 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>When Did the Econom Peak?</title>
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 <description>I say the economy reached its last business-cycle peak in December 2007.Menzie Chinn:Econbrowser: Three Pictures from the August Employment Situation Release: Figure 2: Log nonfarm payroll employment figures (blue) and log aggregate weekly hours in...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:45:28 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Who Owns Fannie and Freddie&#039;s Common Stock?</title>
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 <description>The common stock of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is almost exclusively held by large financial institutions. The top ten largest institutional holders control over half of the stock of each companies. Details on Fannie Mae&#039;s ownership can be found here...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:36:26 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Why McCain Is Unqualified to Be President, Part CCCIII</title>
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 <description>His bad judgment in choosing Sarah Palin: Politics   Sarah Palin had turbulent first year as mayor of Alaska town   Seattle Times Newspaper: When Palin ran for mayor in the fall of 1996, she was 32 years old and a four-year veteran of the City Counci...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:46:00 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Obama doubles down on dishonesty (348536)</title>
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 <description>In his speech to the Democratic convention, Barack Obama claimed that John McCain considers people who make up to $5 million a year to be middle class.  This claim was based on a joke McCain cracked at the Saddleback forum:Rick Warren:Ok, on taxes, d...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:30:34 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Why It&#039;s Going to Be a Long Recession</title>
 <link>http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1119901?rsstype=populararticles&amp;cid=0</link>
 <description>    Number of Stocks: 53 long   Concentration: Top 5 holdings = 32% of total   Percent Long: 82.7%   Percent Short: 0%   Top 5 Holdings,in order: Sociedad de Chile (SQM)Canadian Oil Sands Trust - COSWF (oil sands)Diamond Offshore (DO)Petrobank (PBEGF...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:28:15 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>$300/Barrel Oil Is Coming - Barron&#039;s Interview</title>
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 <description>Weeden &amp; Co. energy analyst Charles Maxwell says $300/barrel oil is on the way - and will hit us by 2015. In an interview with Barron&#039;s, Maxwell highlights oil&#039;s uniqueness:  When it begins to disappear, there really aren&#039;t any good substitutes, whic...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:56:29 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Scoble   s rant reflects badly on him, not the 72 companies</title>
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 <description>Image via CrunchBase, source unknown I had dinner with Andy Abramson and Chris Shipley last night, on the eve before DEMOfall officially kicked off.   Andy   s wine dinners are famous in tech circles, and this one was no different.   And, as is Andy ...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:34:19 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>John Hempton on Frannie</title>
 <link>http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/brad-delongs-semi-daily-journal/1119889?rsstype=populararticles&amp;cid=0</link>
 <description>Let me, for one, endorse pretty much everything he says:  Bronte Capital: The Reality Based Community and Frannie: I estimated the earnings power of Fannie Mae at about 10 billion per annum. Fannie has something near a trillion in debt... at 130bps o...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:49:50 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>I Don&#039;t Understand...</title>
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 <description>Al Yoon writes:S&amp;P slashes Fannie, Freddie preferred stock to junk: NEW YORK, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Standard &amp; Poor&#039;s on Sunday cut the ratings on Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Freddie Mac (FRE.N: Quote, Profile, Research...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:28:31 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Watch</title>
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 <description>OK. Here is what is going on:* Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac give the Treasury each 80% of their (common) stock and $1B (each).* The Teasury promises to keep Fannie and Freddie solvent according to GAAP by lending it money at 10% per year.* The Treasury...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:22:25 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Paulson Rolls The Dice At Taxpayer Expense</title>
 <link>http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1119865?rsstype=populararticles&amp;cid=0</link>
 <description>The GSE deal has been announced. Here is the Statement by Secretary Paulson on Treasury and FHFA Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers.The title of the statement suggests two things:...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:14:49 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>The Housing Crisis, Latest Move</title>
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 <description>Henry Paulson did it: he nationalized the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:  hp-1129: Statement by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers: Washington, DC-- Good ...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:13:28 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Bear Market In Its Final Stages?</title>
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 <description>Bear markets exhibit a process of risk subsiding over time as excesses are corrected, valuations improve, and pessimism builds. This bear market is now roughly a year old, and signs are appearing that it may be in its final stages. September and Octo...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:35:55 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Etiquette in Asia: Some Basics</title>
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 <description>Today the Arizona Republican printed one of the best short round ups of basic etiquette tips for Asia that I think I&#039;ve ever seen. Ten straightforward tips to remember - all of them easy to keep and easy to break, depending on what you know.The tips ...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:34:11 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>The Great Dollar Pump of 2008: A Doomed Central Bank Intervention</title>
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 <description>If you are a holder of Powershares dollar bearish fund (UDN), gold (GLD) or silver (SLV), you   ve been taking a beating since late July/early August, as the dollar has powered forward, against all odds, in a bewildering climb against virtually all o...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:17:27 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Fannie &amp; Freddie Weekend Wrap Up/Linkfest</title>
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 <description>So much for a relaxing weekend! We spilled plenty of pixels on Fannie (FNM) &amp; Freddie (FRE)this weekend, as did lots of other folks. What follows is all of the relevant commentary I could scratch together: Here&#039;s TBP recap:    Treasury Takeover of GS...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Trading Fannie Mae (FNM.OB) And Freddie Mac (FRE.OB) As Penny Stocks</title>
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 <description>The common stocks in Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) will not go away under the government&#039;s plan to take control of the companies The Federal Housing...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and mor...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:30:02 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Details and Text on the Fannie/Freddie Bailout</title>
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 <description>Details on the just-announced Fannie/Freddie bailout plans were initially scant, but the OFHEO and Treasury websites now have most of what you&#039;re looking for. Here is the gist:      The two mortgage giants will open Monday under Treasury control     ...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:35:52 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Sneak Peek at Weekend Reading</title>
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 <description>Here is a sneak peek at some (non-Fannie/Freddie) links from my weekly column over at TheStreet.      More allegations about nefarious activity in oil markets (Risk)        Black Swans and Market Timing: How Not To Generate Alpha (Journal of Investin...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:35:50 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Weekly Outlook</title>
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 <description>Click here for Wall St. Week Ahead by Reuters.  Click here for stocks in focus for Monday by MarketWatch.     There are a few economic reports of note and some significant corporate earnings reports...[[ This is only a summary. Visit Between the Hedg...</description>
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 <title>Big Brother Seizes Fannie and Freddie</title>
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 <description>Let&#039;s be honest, this is a Soviet-style seizure of private businesses. Are we really to believe that both Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac went broke on the exact same weekend?Federal officials unveiled an extraordinary takeover on Sunday of troubled mortga...</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:17:00 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>FDIC Shuts Down Silver State Bank</title>
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 <description>Nevada&#039;s Silver State Bank is the eleventh bank failure of the year:Regulators on Friday shut down Silver State Bank, saying the Nevada bank failed because of losses on soured loans, mainly in commercial real estate and land development.It was the 11...</description>
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 <title>A Frantic Weekend Of Putting Together The Fannie and Freddie Rescue Plan</title>
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 <description>So now we know that the Treasury is rescuing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by placing them into a conservatorship. The news that something was brewing had been bubbling up since Friday, when the Wall Street Journal first reported that Treasury officials...</description>
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 <description>The Federal Housing Finance Authority will take over as conservator Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government announced as part of its breathtaking rescue of the two housing giants. Under the plan, the current common stocks shareholders will be near...</description>
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 <description>Chesapeake Energy Corporation, the US    largest natural gas producer and most active driller, has initiated a public education campaign called CNG NOW designed to promote the greater usage of natural gas as a transportation fuel.Elements of the CNG ...</description>
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 <description>I am still working my way through the details of the GSE takeover by Treasury, but here is my initial read of the details:    FHFA will act as conservator of the two firms -- meaning the US government has day-to-day control of Fannie and Freddie;    ...</description>
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 <description>Becker points to India as an example of a society in which competition has been more effective than law in reducing discrimination in employment. As with most analyses of historical phenomena, determining causation is rife with uncertainty. Had the I...</description>
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 <title>Buying Berkshire: The Ultimate No-Brainer</title>
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 <description>Warren Buffett&#039;s holding company Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) has been the single greatest investment of our lifetimes.His compounded annual gain from 1966 to 2007 was 21.1% for an overall gain of 400,863%, compared to 10.3% and 6,840% for the S&amp;P 500....</description>
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 <description>From Treasury: Statement by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and TaxpayersConservatorshipPreferred Stock Purchase Agreements Treasury has taken three additional steps t...</description>
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 <description>Here are the official statements on the Fannie &amp; Freddie bailouts:Statement by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. on Treasury and FederalHousing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers:Good morning. I&#039;m joined here by Jim Lockha...</description>
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 <description>September 5, 2008The Honorable Henry M. Paulson, Jr.Secretary United States Department of the Treasury1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20220Re:   Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac RestructuringDear Secretary Paulson:We understand that a Treasury p...</description>
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 <description>Sirius XM (SIRI) announced last Friday that it will carry all Notre Dame football and basketball games over the Internet. Sirius has enjoyed a relationship with Notre Dame football since 2004, and this latest offering via the Internet certainly raise...</description>
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