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• How to deal with higher bank fees in 2012

  Thu Jan 26, 2012
  • "Bankers still need to replace billions of dollars in lost revenue that have resulted from the sluggish economy and new federal regulations. "

• Federal Reserve says no rate hikes until at least late 2014

  Wed Jan 25, 2012
  • The Federal Reserve deserves credit not only for keeping the rates low, but for doing it in such a way as to reduce uncertainty over an extended period of time, when it is particularly critical to do so.

• America's lunch hour on the endangered list

  Wed Jan 18, 2012
  • No lunch break is penny-wise, pound foolish. Both management and employment need to promote a lunch break.

• More arrests in U.S. insider trading probe: source

  Wed Jan 18, 2012
  • That's a start! Now, what about federal government officials using inside information to improve their investments, e.g., Congress? (c) 2011

• Americans raid savings, putting recovery at risk

  Tue Jan 17, 2012
  • Unfortunately, we need to imagine what may happen if and when the savings "well" runs dry. It is not a bottomless well. Corporate and wealthy america in particular need to take special note, as their policies may be killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

• Obama seeks power to merge agencies

  Fri Jan 13, 2012
  • This illustrates how little control the presidency has over the federal administrative organization, the performance for which he is held accountable.

• Money from US used to fund genocide in S. Sudan?

  Fri Jan 13, 2012
  • This sounds like murder for hire by the organizers of and contributors to this fund to me. The perpetrators should be prosecuted accordingly. If they are not U.S. citizens, they should be deported immediately. (c) 2012

• Experts: Barbour pardons appear done in 'haste,' lack key information

  Thu Jan 12, 2012
  • Another indictment of the political system in the U.S. that puts such people in office. (c) 2011

• Insurance study: Women are better drivers than men

  Thu Jan 12, 2012
  • (Some of these points were made by in earlier postings, but are worth repeating.) When men and women are together in a vehicle, men drive more frequently than women. More men still appear to be truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc than women.

• More see class conflict between rich and poor

  Wed Jan 11, 2012
  • The predatory rich are redistributing wealth from the poor and middle classes, while accusing those classes of exactly that.