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Nancy Pelosi, Afghanistan and the U.S.
The Swamp(House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace in Kabul. Photo by Zabiullah Tamanna / AP) by Mark Silva and updated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arriving in Afghanistan on the heels of the Obama administration's.....Tags: Heads of State, U.S. Military, Wars and Interventions, Defense, Reconstruction
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Official: Obama's first budget part of plan to cut federal deficit in half by first term's end
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has committed hundreds of billions of dollars to help revive the economy and is working on a plan to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obama will touch on his efforts to restore...Tags: Heads of State, Small Businesses, Republican Party, Kentucky, Barack Obama
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German officials: EU summit backs blanket regulation for financial markets, hedge funds
Associated Press WriterBERLIN (AP) — European leaders backed sweeping new regulations for financial markets and hedge funds at a summit Sunday in Berlin as politicians and nations scrambled to tame the global economic crisis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted...Tags: Angela Merkel, Credit Ratings, Heads of State, European Union, Litigation and Regulation
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Distressed homeowners fight foreclosure by taking their lenders to court
Tribune reporterHomeowners who feel they've been treated unfairly by lenders are fighting back. Some are bringing lawsuits in hopes of forestalling losing their homes or freeing themselves of what they believe are onerous borrowing terms. Occasionally they take a do-it-...Tags: First Franklin Corporation, Bank of America Corp., Heads of State, Barack Obama, Legal Services
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Take tax credits for going 'green'
You likely still are sorting through tax documents from last year to prepare your 2008 returns, but it's worthwhile to note that federal tax credits are available again for homeowners who make energy-efficient home improvements through 2010, courtesy of...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Credit and Debt, Barack Obama, Energy Saving, House and Home
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President Obama's budget will seek to cut deficit in half
President Obama will offer a plan this week to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term in office, largely by winding down the war in Iraq and raising taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year, an administration official said...Tags: Heads of State, Global Warming, Wars and Interventions, Defense, Tom Daschle
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Beijing's Olympic building boom becomes a bust
"Empty," says Jack Rodman, an expert in distressed real estate, as he points from the window of his 40th-floor office toward a silver-skinned prism rising out of the Beijing skyline. "Beautiful building, but not a single tenant. "Completely empty....Tags: Baseball, Construction, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, San Diego Padres, Central Park
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Groups irk GOP over campaign-finance law
Tallahassee BureauGood-government groups are starting to get under the skin of Republicans in Tallahassee by defending, of all things, "welfare for politicians." The 1986 state law that helps finance statewide politicians willing to accept spending limits is under...Tags: Florida, Republican Party, Upper House, Government, Jeb Bush
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SunRail: It may be now or never for Orlando's grand plan to get commuters off I-4, onto daily train
Sentinel Staff WriterWhen Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer led a delegation of commuter-rail supporters to Tallahassee recently, they exuded confidence, almost an air of inevitability. Joined by senators on key legislative committees and Florida's cheerleader-in-chief, Gov....Tags: Florida, Lee Constantine, Altamonte Springs, Upper House, Budgets and Budgeting
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Clinton in China
Chinese officials and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed Saturday to step up their cooperation on the global economic crisis and climate change, while treading carefully around the human rights issues that have often strained U.S. ties with...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Heads of State, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Government
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Obama's first budget aims to cut away at deficit
WASHINGTON - President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by closing corporate tax loopholes, raising taxes on the wealthy and slashing...Tags: Heads of State, Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama, Government, Budgets and Budgeting
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Which capitalism will it be?
Benjamin R. Barber, a distinguished senior fellow at Demos, is the author of "Jihad vs. McWorld and Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults and Swallow Citizens Whole."As America, recession-mired, enters the hope-inspired age of Barack Obama, a struggle for the soul of capitalism is being waged. Can the market system finally be made to serve us? Or will we continue to serve it? George W. Bush argued that the crisis...Tags: Democracy, Consumers, Barack Obama, Government, George Bush
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