Tag: business
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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February 23, 2009 06:37 PM EST --
Mary L. Schapiro is the new head of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). She is not new to the agency, having worked there under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. If her first days on the job are . . .
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August 06, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
The funniest thing happened when I published a photo essay about my vacation to Mexico: numerous readers assumed that I was romanticizing the country or defending the hordes of illegal immigrants who come . . .
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May 05, 2008 05:56 PM EDT --
With consumer prices climbing and the end of the mortgage meltdown nowhere in sight, it becomes tempting to counsel those trapped in predatory home loans to walk away. After all, the creditors who made . . .
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September 15, 2008 09:23 PM EDT --
Over the weekend on the Gulf Coast of the United States, a few million people did their best not to drown in Hurricane Ike. While they were having their hurricane party, some in the world of high finance . . .
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March 09, 2009 06:24 PM EDT --
Seth Myers made a joke on Saturday Night Live this week about banks spending half of the $700 billion stimulus bill to build the world's biggest toilet, which they would then use to flush . . .
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August 24, 2009 06:38 PM EDT --
The American people are making heavy going of the battle to change the health care system. Spurred on by nervous health care industry leaders, they work against their own interests. Americans over 65, . . .
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July 14, 2008 06:14 PM EDT --
Let's all give a hearty hoo-rah for the Federal Reserve, which is expected to approve rules that protect homebuyers and investors from dishonest lenders. Give Mr. Bernanke the big blue ribbon for being . . .
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September 08, 2008 06:24 PM EDT --
On Sunday, the Federal Reserve announced a bailout of the lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The announcement was a mere formality, after weeks of rumors that the two companies were in trouble. . . .
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April 13, 2009 06:32 PM EDT --
You would think a law that makes it profitable for companies to reduce pollution would be a good thing. That is, unless you were a conservative. Groups like the Heritage Foundation are attacking America's . . .
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June 01, 2009 06:23 PM EDT --
Congress has a lot on its plate this summer. Members of Congress face the budget, approving a Supreme Court Justice and energy bills. In addition, President Obama has asked lawmakers to tackle two issues . . .
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July 13, 2009 06:44 PM EDT --
The Bush years were frustrating for many Americans. After the September 11 attacks, Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act. Many Americans thought the act curbed civil liberties. Many thought the law was . . .
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July 27, 2009 06:52 PM EDT --
Twenty-seven hundred people went to the Wise County Fairground in Wise, Virginia this weekend. They did not go to a fair, but rather to seek health care that they otherwise would not have gotten. The . . .
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September 29, 2008 07:32 PM EDT --
The presidential candidates spent a lot of time in the debate on Friday talking about what they stand for, and what they want to do. Since both men are senators, their positions on issues are public record. . . .
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March 26, 2008 12:17 PM EDT --
Some will rob you with a six-gun; and some with a fountain pen.
It's been said of U.S. economic policy that a rising tide floats all yachts. Last week, J.P. Morgan Chase offered to buy Bear . . .
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August 02, 2007 03:57 PM EDT --
The first time I traveled very far into Mexico, I did it for the sole purpose of demonstrating to my children that "poor" is in the eye of the beholder. What I discovered is that it is also largely . . .
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November 19, 2007 07:16 PM EST --
A previous article focusing on the U.S. health care system and suggesting that it was time to institute some form of universal health insurance, drew an interesting response: "I don't want to . . .
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April 07, 2008 08:13 PM EDT --
Every once in a while, it would be nice to see Congress think all the way through their proposed actions to their logical consequences. Instead, they act from not-always-pure motives, and the devil gets . . .
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October 01, 2007 12:13 PM EDT --
Some people look for the answers to the eternal questions of life: Why am I here? Where did we come from?
Not me. Today I want to know one thing only: Why does my belly button pucker everytime I tell . . .
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August 31, 2007 12:14 AM EDT --
I spent the day building a web site the old-fashioned way, with html. This has its advantages, but one of them is not speed. At any rate, I wanted to announce that you can visit my web site and view my . . .
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September 24, 2007 09:51 PM EDT --
There's something about me. It's hard to describe, but when I talk, people don't listen. I mean, they often respond, talk back and do things that would seem to indicate that they're . . .
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