saw this on the news last night—arent you so glad theyre worrying about the poor race horses instead of your costs at the pump?
BP credit rating downgraded after Congress grilling
Tony Hayward’s stonewalling on the BP oil spill adds to market uncertainty Tony Hayward’s seven-hour mauling at the hands of the US Congress appears to have done little to repair his image in America, and was not enough to prevent BP’s credit rating being downgraded again today. The BP chief executive’s refusal to give detailed answers to many of the questions fired at him yesterday has not …
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Small Business Owners, Rep. Welch to Congress: Pass Commonsense Swipe Fee Reform NOW!
Americans are set to pay more than $50 billion in swipe fees this year – most of which will just add to the profits of big banks and credit card companies
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Obama Prods Congress On Small Business Tax Breaks
Obama Prods Congress On Small Business Tax Breaks
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Arbitration Showdown Looms Between Congress, Supreme Court
Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court appear headed for collision over mandatory arbitration in consumer and employment contracts, thanks to two recent actions that have occurred against a backdrop of generally pro-arbitration Court decisions in the past decade. That trend is in contrast to the increasing skepticism shown by lower courts and lawmakers about arbitration’s claim to greater …
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Obama urges Congress to pass small business aid
Obama urges Congress to pass small business aid, forecasts busy agenda ahead for Congress
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Family businesses may miss out on insurance tax credits; Doctors’ angry with Congress
The Boston Globe explores a largely overlooked provision in the tax credits offered to small businesses by the new health law to help cover the costs of insuring workers. “[M]any Massachusetts small business owners who employ mostly family members are discovering fine print in the new law that disqualifies, or substantially limits, their tax credit. That language says family-owned businesses are …
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Obama Urged Congress to Pass Loan Programs to Small Businesses
U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed about 200 Small Business Owners of the Year winners to the White House Tuesday touting their contributions to the economy.
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Congress Investigates the Impact of Concussions on High School Athletes
WASHINGTON—-On Thursday, May 20, 2010, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor held a hearing to learn more about the impact of concussions on high school athletes and how the injury can impact academic achievement.
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Obama sends Congress small business lending bill
The Obama administration has sent Congress a proposal to create a $30 billion support program to unfreeze credit for the nation’s small businesses.
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Obama’s Election-Year Jobs Agenda Stalls in Congress
The election-year jobs agenda promised by President Obama and Democrats has stalled seven months before voters determine control of Congress.
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‘We will go slow on acquisition plans . Tata Steel expects 10-15 percent sales growth in February
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Between health care reform and missile defense, this news kind of got buried, but it’s important. Here is the story from Threat Level, the national security blog at Wired : The Obama administration has told Congress it supports renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act due to expire at year’s end, measures making it easier for the government to spy within the United States
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Patriot Act Provisions Up for Renewal
This just in: Congress is thinking about extending the first time home buyer tax credit . The program has proved rather successful in terms of encouraging home purchases, and now Congress is interested in possibly extending the program …
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by Hal_10000 Here’s the fisk. I couldn’t wait until morning. It’s not as bad as I’d feared. But the idea that this was a land-breaking speech is overblown. There was little we hadn’t heard before. For all the President’s soaring rhetoric (someone administer smelling salts to Sullivan, please), he still does not understand how healthcare or insurance works. And his metaphor for the public option is now public universities. Think about that. I think there’s room to maneuver here
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Fisking the Prez, Healthcare Edition
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy Washington, D.C.– Below is the full text of President Obama’s address on health care to the Joint Session of Congress, with emphasis added by Turning Left: *** Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Cr
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John T. Scopes The US Chamber of Commerce has come up with the bizarre idea that we should hold a trial about whether or not climate change is real
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Chamber of Commerce Wants to Put Evolution on Trial
They can not charge you income tax unless you actually bought it for less than $4500 whenever you bought it or depreciated it to less than $4500 on your tax return as a business expense.
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Whoops! Cash For Clunkers Payments Are Taxable!
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