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It’s a testy festy! – Montana, USA

Yes, you read that right. Only in America can there be a Testicle Festival. Naturally it is an ‘adults only’ event and actually revolves around Rocky Mountain Oysters. That’s bull testicles to you and me. Roughly 6500 people attend this … Continue reading

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Mortgage ‘middlemen’ tapped to help are subject of complaints

The mortgage and real estate industry has resembled a battlefield marred with carnage and destruction with what appears to have no end in sight. 210 imploded lenders and thousands of mortgage, real estate professionals and anything related to these professions … Continue reading

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Professor Elizabeth Warren speaks about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency

Consumers can enter the market to buy physical products confident that they won’t be tricked into buying exploding toasters and other unreasonably dangerous products. They can concentrate their shopping efforts in other directions, helping to drive a competitive market that … Continue reading

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How China and the U.S. Handle WTO Complaints

The way China and the United States handle WTO complaints differs. We allow the complaints to drag through adjudication for years. We in the U.S. will even win a WTO decision, but then simply wait while China does nothing, as … Continue reading

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A Tonic For An Epidemic Of Financial Irresponsibility

The President explains his plan to address one of the major causes of the current economic crisis — the breakdown of oversight leading to widespread abuses in the financial world. The new Consumer Financial Protection Agency will have the sole … Continue reading

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Obama aims to give regulators chance to rein in future crises

Under the Obama plan, the Federal Reserve would get new authority to police all financial institutions — not just banks — whose failure could threaten the financial system. And the government would have new powers to wind up the affairs … Continue reading

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Torture Complaint Report Implicates Bush Administration Complicity

A new published report states that President Bush and his aides repeatedly ignored warnings that their torture plans were illegal from high State Department officials as well as the nation’s top uniformed legal officers – the Judge Advocates General of … Continue reading

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