Group fighting voter fraud among those waiting on IRS

washingtontimes.com 13 hours ago

A Texas group dedicated to combatting voter fraud applied for tax-exempt status in 2010 and has suffered three years of delays, been through four different IRS agents, undergone six FBI inquiries and...

 
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The Bush Tax-Cut Failure

economix.blogs.nytimes.com 11 hours ago

No hard evidence has ever emerged that the Bush tax cuts stimulated the economy, an economist writes.

 
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Reversal

zerohedge.com 2 hours ago

Submitted by Mark j. Grant, author of Out of the Box, The 100% Prediction of a Reversal   A reversal will come. The odds on this are 100%...

 
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Gold And Silver Roundtrip To Friday's Close

zerohedge.com 44 mins ago

It's been a wild ride in gold ($60 range) and silver ($2.50 range) in the last 2 days but for now, the precious metals have dropped back to unchanged from Friday's close...

 
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Will the IRS's Tea Party Profiling Convince Conservatives That All Profiling Is Wrong?

slate.com 16 hours ago

Pretend you work at the Internal Revenue Service. Actually, let’s make this exercise even more terrible...

 
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South African Strike Season Is Back As Ten Workers Are Shot By Rubber Bullets

zerohedge.com 53 mins ago

It was a year ago that escalating labor tensions in the country of South Africa ground its mining sector to a halt, when demands from striking workers for wage hikes were met with aggressive...

 
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IRS Hearings II: The Steve Miller Band Plays On - Live Stream

zerohedge.com 44 mins ago

He's back to reprise his role as stoic 'I know nuffin' scapegoat...

 
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The Post-Crisis Era Has Arrived

slate.com 2 hours ago

Last December, Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal and I were talking at a holiday party about the risk that 2013 would be a post-crisis era in which basically good economic news made our jobs boring...

 
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Transforming finance: What would a democratic finanial system look like? - video

guardian.co.uk 5 hours ago

Speakers from the Transforming Finance conference - including James Featherby, Church of England Ethical Investment Advisory Group; Ann Pettifor, PRIME; Louis Brookes, Move Your Money campaign;...

 
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Bulgaria's ex-PM Borisov says he is convinced rivals can form government

news.yahoo.com 2 hours ago

By Tsvetelia Tsolova SOFIA (Reuters) - The head of Bulgaria's largest party said on Tuesday he was convinced his rivals would be able to form a government, indicating a political stalemate that could...

 
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Apology Not Accepted: The Right — and Wrong — Way to Say You’re Sorry | TIME.com

business.time.com 1 hour ago

A great deal has been written about Harvard University professor Niall Ferguson’s controversial comments about the late economist John Maynard Keynes...

 
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Why Inflation Never Came - News That Matters

zerohedge.com 2 hours ago

Why Inflation Never Came A generation of economists and students of macroeconomics were taught that the Quantity Theory of Money described the relationship between money and prices in the economy...

 
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Jamie Dimon Vote Should Be 75%-25%: Bove

cnbc.com 3 hours ago

Ahead of the JPMorgan Chase vote Tuesday to split the chairman and CEO roles, banking analyst Bove lauded Jamie Dimon.

 
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Attention shifts to White House in IRS probe

reuters.com 14 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior aides to President Barack Obama knew weeks ago about a watchdog report on the U.S...

 
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Help to Buy claims 'mislead': £160,000 home 'worth £200,000'

telegraph.co.uk 2 hours ago

Developers have been accused of misleading buyers enquiring about the government's flagship Help to Buy subisdy scheme.

 
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Africa’s French Roadblock by Sanou Mbaye

project-syndicate.org 52 mins ago

While some African countries now rank among the world's fastest-growing economies, others – including the 14 countries that form the franc zone – remain mired in poverty...

 
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Bank of Ireland reverses mortgage rate increase for 1,200 borrowers

guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago

Following a review, some of the 13,500 customers told to expect a rise in the cost of their loans have had a reprieve

 
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We want to join the pension scheme, say young workers

telegraph.co.uk 3 hours ago

Young employees are opting in to workplace pensions at a surprising rate, according to the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).

 
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Royal Mail delivers profits fit for flotation

telegraph.co.uk 1 hour ago

Royal Mail delivered a 61pc surge in pre-tax profits in a set of annual results that chief executive Moya Greene said “presents a cogent case to investors” for a stockmarket listing.

 
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US Economy Is on the Move—and So Are We

cnbc.com 4 hours ago

Thanks to the brightening economy, Americans are relocating again. Here are some tips to prepare for moving day.

 
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Five steps to avoid being the victim of ID theft

telegraph.co.uk 5 hours ago

Experian's Joanne Leahy tells Emma Wall five easy ways to protect yourself from ID fraud online.

 
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Learning to Love the Poems of Edward Thomas

slate.com 3 hours ago

I came to “There’s Nothing Like the Sun,” and Edward Thomas’ work in general, quite late, thanks to some of my more inane prejudices...

 
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Boom in the south drives up house prices

telegraph.co.uk 4 hours ago

Official figures show the price of property on the rise, driven by strong demand in London and the South East.

 
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Where Are The Deficit Celebrations?

krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 18 hours ago

Think of the scolds left behind.

 
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Is Obama Criminalizing National Security Reporting?

slate.com 16 hours ago

The Obama Justice Department’s crusade against leakers just took a quantum leap—and it’s extremely worrisome. It’s one thing to go after officials who leak classified information to the press...

 
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Apple’s Cook to Face Senate Questions on Taxes

business.time.com 3 hours ago

(WASHINGTON) — A Senate panel says Apple Inc. is avoiding paying billions of dollars in U.S...

 
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Oil Market Manipulation Reaches Absurd Levels

zerohedge.com 9 hours ago

  By  EconMatters   Markets & Manipulation: A long History   Most markets these days are manipulated to some extent, and this is nothing new if we look back through the...

 
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Why Did Virginia Republicans Nominate a Crazy YouTube Preacher?

slate.com 18 hours ago

On Sunday afternoon, standing outside the Virginia GOP’s headquarters in vote-rich Fairfax County, Bishop E.W. Jackson finally became a real politician...

 
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The 9 Most Obese Countries in the World (ARNA, OREX, VVUS)

fool.com 21 hours ago

Obesity trends are on the rise in these nine countries. See what's being done to counteract this potentially worrisome trend.

 
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Twelve things you don't need to pay for

guardian.co.uk 5 hours ago

From reclaiming PPI to building a website, here are a dozen services that you could end up paying for but don't have to

 
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More than 80pc of white-collar workers clocking up 40-hour weeks

telegraph.co.uk 3 hours ago

More than 80pc of white-collar workers are putting in 40-hour weeks, up 15pc in just two years, with nearly a third working more than 50 hours a week, according to research.

 
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Spain’s awful unemployment | FT Alphaville

ftalphaville.ft.com 5 hours ago

Is it only going to get worse before it gets better? Continue reading: Spain’s awful unemployment

 
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How banking should work in future

telegraph.co.uk 3 hours ago

Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice outlines a revolutionary new model for banks - and their customers.

 
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