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Daily Archives: March 21, 2010

24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings (Week 11)

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 7:12 pm

The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product ...
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The $70 Billion A Year American Obesity Tax

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 7:03 pm

No matter what legislation comes out of the frenzied health care debate, economists say that it will cost the American taxpayer a great deal. Estimates run the gamut from the ...
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The 15 CEOs Who Should Be Paid $1 A Year

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 6:47 pm

Lee Iacocca, Chrysler’s CEO in 1979, worked for $1 a year while his company paid back taxpayers $1.2 billion in loan guarantees. Edward Liddy, former CEO of Allstate (ALL), was ...
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Bernanke Versus The First Amendment

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 7:33 am

The Federal Reserve understandably does not want to give up the secrets of which banks were most in need of rescue as the credit markets melted down in late 2008. ...
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US Currency Wars With China Looms

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 7:10 am

A trade war between the US and China, with tariffs and taxes, recriminations and retaliation, may be a modestly troubling prospect compared to a currency war. China's Commerce Minister Chen ...
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IMF Warns US And Other Developed Nations Of Unprecedented Austerity

Posted: March 21, 2010 at 6:16 am

The need for a new and tremendous belt-tightening by the US government and the costs of the recession to consumers is about to hit like a tidal wave. And the drops in government ...
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