FDIC neglects to collect insurance premiums

Seeded on Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:59 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)

Brilliant!!! The FDIC (insurance) did not collect insurance premiums for ten years. Now they have to cover failing bank deposits.

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Microsoft cuts jobs to "outperform competitors"

Seeded on Thu Mar 5, 2009 9:04 AM EST (Microsoft earning statement online)

Chris Liddell, chief financial officer at Microsoft just doesn't get it. "We are planning for economic uncertainty... The leadership style shown by Mr. Liddell is the type that is causing current economic uncertainties..

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Government finds wedge into private homes

Seeded on Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:19 PM EST (United Press International)

The government has finally found a way to take something unpopular and use it as a wedge to open the door to our behavior behind closed private doors. A woman owns her condo. She smokes in her condo.

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Black renters raise tensions in Bay Area

Seeded on Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:46 AM EST (msnbc.com)

As more and more black renters began moving into mostly white Antioch, Calif., a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.

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Donation dollars buy pardons from Bush

Seeded on Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:18 AM EST (washington times)

President Bush granted clemency to 20 people Tuesday, including a man who was convicted of delivering planes used by Israel in its 1948 war of independence and a real estate developer whose father has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican candidates and the party. A …

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Why Somalies are turning to piracy

Seeded on Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:41 PM EST (Newsweek)

What happens when commercial fishing operations plunder foreign waters so the "super powers" can have "all you can eat" seafood buffets?

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Taxes not paid by corporate America equal bail out funds?

Seeded on Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:39 AM EST (CNN)

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. companies and 68% of foreign corporations do not pay federal income taxes, according to a congressional report released Tuesday.

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