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China

Solar Panels and Hackers: The West Gangs Up on China

Posted: May 7, 2013 at 7:10 am

The world has started to gang up on China. America's Defense Department published a report as part of its Annual Report to Congress. In "Military and Security Developments Involving the ...
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Shocker: U.S. Treasury to Pay Down Debt!

Posted: April 29, 2013 at 4:13 pm

For the first time since the June quarter of 2007, the U.S. Treasury is expecting to pay of $35 billion of debt during the June quarter this year. The payoff ...
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Boeing 747

Senate Bill Ends Air Traffic Controller Furloughs

Posted: April 26, 2013 at 7:00 am

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill to end the furloughs of air traffic controllers. This should halt a long series of flight delays that have threatened to gridlock the ...
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Americans Oppose Gas Tax to Repair Roads

Posted: April 22, 2013 at 6:57 am

Americans do not want to pay state taxes on driving so that they can have better roads, or bridges for that matter. That means the single most logical source of ...
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The Real Cost of Terrorism for Nations, Billions and Trillions

Posted: April 19, 2013 at 3:20 pm

This last week was a reminder that terrorism is far from gone. The dual bombs at the Boston Marathon were followed by ricin poison letters in the Senate and the ...
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American Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Companies

Posted: April 17, 2013 at 10:35 am

It feels almost like the news flow from 11 years ago is repeating itself, as terrorism is back in the headlines and in the breaking news in America. First it ...
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U.S. Companies That Track Terrorists, Aid Homeland Security and Sell to Law Enforcement

Posted: April 16, 2013 at 12:20 pm

America lost its ability to ease into the thought that it was safe again on Monday after the Boston Marathon bombs killed three people and injured more than 100. This is ...
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States with the Most Gun Violence

Posted: April 15, 2013 at 6:22 am

Following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, a heated debate has raged over gun laws in the country. Supporters of gun control measures argue that more ...
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US Federal Reserve

Philadelphia Fed President Repudiates Bond Buying

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 6:55 am

Charles I. Plosser, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, told an audience in Hong Kong that he disagreed with the central bank's current bond-buying plan. It is another ...
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US Federal Reserve

FOMC Minutes Released Early, Hints at End of Quantitative Easing Timeline

Posted: April 10, 2013 at 9:20 am

The Federal Reserve was set to release its minutes of the latest March 19 to 20 FOMC meeting at 2:00 p.m EST today but the report came out at 9:00 a.m. ...
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Old-fashioned Main Street

Small Business Confidence Index Falls for First Time in Four Months

Posted: April 9, 2013 at 7:55 am

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) this morning reported a decline of 1.3 points in its small business optimism index, from 90.8 in February to 89.5 in March. The ...
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Spain

Portugal Court Blocks Austerity Measures

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 7:00 am

The highest court in Portugal ruled that some of the austerity measures to be employed by the government to curtail deficits are not constitutional. In reaction, the central government said ...
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In U.S. Support of South Korea, an Economic Danger Looms

Posted: April 5, 2013 at 6:18 am

The U.S. public needs to be careful what it wishes for. The great majority of Americans support the use of the U.S. military if South Korea is attacked by North ...
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North Korea Rhetoric Acts as Defense Contractor Gift

Posted: April 3, 2013 at 2:28 pm

The rhetoric out of North Korea is acting as a drag to the broader markets, but don't tell that to the defense sector. Of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks, ...
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health care

What Medicare Reimbursement Increases Really Mean (AET, CI, HUM, UNH, WLP, UAM)

Posted: April 3, 2013 at 7:45 am

After promising voters that the Affordable Healthcare Act (aka Obamacare), and other health care initiatives designed by the current administration would not result in any increase in costs for citizens, ...
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