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“Enough already!”
That exclamation is on a billboard beside I-95 outside of Richmond, Va. It refers to global poverty and the ever-widening divide between the haves and have-nots. But for nearly as long as the United Nations has pledged to eliminate abject poverty it has attempted to make peace in the Middle East. For me and countless other Americans, Israelis, Palestinians (and anyone anywhere …
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(Adds comment from Michaud in the third paragraph.) March 15 (Bloomberg) — U.S. lawmakers urged Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to say China manipulates its currency, writing that an undervalued yuan hurts American manufacturers and provides a …
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It is rich with irony that an administration so intent on exacting a pound of flesh from the financial community for the sub-prime crisis has a Treasury Secretary that is following the same path that Wall Street took to put our economy in jeopardy.Treasury …
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(This post originally appeared on Houston’s Clear Thinkers .)The big news in the business world at the end of last week and over the weekend was the publication of the examiner’s report in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy case.The mainstream media jumped …
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By Amotz Asa-ElJERUSALEM (MarketWatch) — A man of business may talk of philosophy, poet Alexander Pope once said, but only a man who has no business can also practice that philosophy.That insight’s inversion, a philosopher managing money, apparently …
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Missouri Ag News HeadlinesMissouri Ag Connection - 03/15/2010Last week nearly 1,400 corn growers from across the U.S. gathered in Anaheim, Calif., for the 2010 Commodity Classic to discuss policy, layout plans for the upcoming year and recognize those …
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A $25 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help fund the construction of a new 50-bed acute care hospital in Harnett County, North Carolina.Harnett Health Systems in Lillington, N.C., has been selected to receive the funding through …
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USDA’s and the U.S. Department of Justice’s first-ever joint public workshop on competition and regulatory issues in the agriculture industry appears to have struck a nerve.The workshop, which some dismissed in advance as a "dog and pony" show, attracted …
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By the end of April Tim Geithner’s Treasury has to publish a semi-annual report that will either brand China as a currency manipulator or not.Of course, everyone knows that China — like all countries — manipulates its currency, but these things are …
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Britain and France say a deal is close on stricter financial regulations in the EU, including on speculative hedge funds, to reduce the chances of another economic crisis.Though not yet finalized, Europe’s plans are already causing tension with Washington. …
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US - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have held the first-ever joint public workshop on competition and regulatory issues in the agriculture industry.The workshop, led by US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack …
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Grassley Pushes for Fair Pricing for Permanent Disaster Assistance Program Payments WASHINGTON - Chuck Grassley today made the case to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack that Iowa hay and forage producers are being pushed out of the permanent disaster …
