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A video ballad of bubble and foreclosure
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt starts off happy and bouncy -- smiley faces, granite countertops, instant equity, a cash-out refi, a vacation in Hawaii, and a brand-new Hummer. But you know how the song ends: in foreclosure. "I got my mortgage and I made my payments But my rate...Tags: Wrestling, Real Estate Agents, Computer Networking and Internet, Animation (genre), Arts and Culture
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Bashing Bush with Greenspan
'While there are significant long-term risks associated with such contractual arrangements, the well-informed actor, motivated by some historically recognized intangibilities -- maximization of regalement, binary association, et al -- finds that those...Tags: Tom Lantos, Petroleum Industry, National Government, Wars and Interventions, Saddam Hussein
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Stronger unions mean a strong middle class
HARLEY SHAIKEN is a professor specializing in labor and the global economy at UC Berkeley.POLLS TELL US that 58% of eligible workers would join a union if they could, yet union membership in the private sector plummeted to 7.4% in 2006, a record low. What explains this yawning gap? The fact that, for many Americans, joining a union has...Tags: Career and Workplace, Studs Terkel, Referenda, Work Relations, Productivity
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Ditch the dollar greenback
EVERY TIME YOU'RE handed a dollar bill, that sound you hear is our government saying, "You're not smart enough." It's also saying, "I can't believe you're going to touch that and not wash your hands afterward." Seriously, think about who gets tipped...Tags: Political Systems, Ben Bernanke, Lobbying, Economy, Business and Finance, National Government
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Buy Chimerican
CHAOS THEORY proposes that, by merely flapping its wings in the Amazonian jungle, a single butterfly can cause a hurricane in Manhattan. Something similar can be said of financial markets, as we saw last week. The butterfly in this case was the...Tags: Earnings Forecasts, Assault, Financial Markets, Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice
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Time to tax carbon
IF YOU HAVE KIDS, take them to the beach. They should enjoy it while it lasts, because there's a chance that within their lifetimes California's beaches will vanish under the waves. Global warming will redraw the maps of the world. The U.N.'s...Tags: Weather, Duke Energy Corporation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, State Budgets, General Motors Corp.
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Wise shopping should make home buy 'bubble-proof'
Tribune Media ServicesQ: I live in the Tampa, Fla., metropolitan area and am planning to buy my first house. I've been hearing a lot of talk about the real estate bubble and have a couple of questions. Should I wait to buy a house until the bubble has burst? To reduce the...Tags: Mortgages, Real Estate Buyers, Real Estate, Homes, Federal Reserve
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America's economic meltdowns
To listen to the pundits, one would think that today's banking crisis and financial meltdown is something rare and exotic. But those who stayed awake in their history classes know that financial panic is a familiar "plot device" in the drama of modern...Tags: Purdue University, Wages and Pensions, Casino and Gambling Industry, Arts and Culture, Banking
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A new Great Depression? It's different this time
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDysfunctional capital markets, frantic central banks, stressed-out consumers, fear and uncertainty -- all are alarming echoes of the global economic cataclysm of the 1930s. Which raises the inevitable question: Could another Great Depression be lurking...Tags: Bankruptcy, Career and Workplace, World War II (1939-1945), Ben Bernanke, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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McCain or Obama: Who's best for the economy?
Today's question: What polices have Obama and McCain presented that would help fix the financial mess? Would any of their plans damage the U.S. economy? Previously, Foster and Kuttner debated the state of the economy and Congress' rejection of the bailout...Tags: Barack Obama, Social Security, Republican Party, Wachovia Corp., Christopher Cox
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This is a test article
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Office of the President of the United States is the head of the executive branch of the government. Actor Ronald Reagan occupied the office during the 1980s, which began with a recession after the stagflation of the late 1970s under Jimmy Carter. Nell...Tags: Barack Obama, American Airlines, Inc., AMR Corp., Nell Carter, Elton John
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Romancing the source
++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ It was an affair between Laura Foreman, a New York Times reporter, and Henry J. "Buddy" Cianfrani, a Pennsylvania state senator, that prompted A.M. Rosenthal, executive editor of the Times, to utter his...Tags: CNN (tv network), Weather, U.S. Department of State, International Relations, Values
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