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New Record As Almost 9 Million Americans Collected Social Security Disability Last Month

Goldman Sachs And The Big Hedge Funds Are Pushing Leverage To Ridiculous Extremes

World Bank Slashes Global Growth Forecasts For 2013 - CNBC

On Wall Street Gun Stocks Continue To Soar...

UPDATE - Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear Electronic Tracker Loses Lawsuit

China and Japan step up drone race as tension builds over disputed islands

UN Wants Drones on 'Peacekeeping' Missions - Wash Po

Man videotaping police charged with crime -- under healthcare law! (Police State)

Reuters: Money is flowing back into municipal bond funds

How the new ‘fiscal cliff’ law affects the municipal bond market

BlackRock on how Bernanke is profoundly distorting fixed-income markets

Bond Links: Bill Gross Boosts Treasury Holdings To Highest Level Since July

Bank of America sees possible new recession from debt ceiling battle - MarketWatch

Released EPA Chief’s Non-Public Emails Called ‘Deeply Troubling’ | CNS News

Reddit Founder Faced 30 Years For A Crime With No Vicitm

REDDIT Founder's Father: 'Aaron...Was Killed by the Government'...

Anti-Hacking Law Questioned After Suicide Of Internet Activist...

Justice Dept Drops Charges After Reddit Founder Kills Himself (Corzine is still free)

VIDEO - 'US Govt Prosecutes Internet Activists While Ignoring Wall Street Crimes'

Prosecutors Turned Down Swart's Request Ror Plea Deal Two Days Before Suicide...

Family Blames MIT, Over-Zealous Federal Prosecutors...

Eight Corporate Subsidies in the Fiscal Cliff Bill, From Goldman Sachs to Disney to NASCAR « Naked Sapitalism (Infuriating!)

Why U.S. might be ‘a nation of deadbeats’ - Consumers have been paying down debt, but walking away from more - MarketWatch

Feds Delayed Arrest of 'Illegal Immigrant and Registered Sex Offender' Working For DEM Senator Until After Election | The Weekly Standard (Guess why this is not a bigger story)

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JP Morgan’s London Whale Report’s Five Conclusions

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2013/01/16/jp-morgans-london-whale-reports-five-conclusions/

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Dimon told ‘more should have been done’

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dimon-told-more-should-have-been-done-2013-01-16

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LONDON--Increasing output of shale oil in North America will put pressure on OPEC to cut its own crude production, resulting in a global oil supply buffer on a scale not seen since oil prices were far lower more than 10 years ago, BP PLC said in its annual energy forecast Wednesday.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/n-america-shale-will-push-opec-to-cut-output-bp-2013-01-16?Link=obnetwork

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Man run over, killed, when dog jumps into car, pushes accelerator

http://www.local10.com/news/Man-run-over-killed-when-dog-jumps-into-car-pushes-accelerator/-/1717324/18148346/-/el2n7vz/-/index.html

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America has a talent for selling ‘really bad debt’

Commentary: Throughout history, we’ve left creditors high and dry

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sorry-mr-president-we-are-a-nation-of-deadbeats-2013-01-16

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Citi, Bank of America fall as results disappoint

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/citi-bank-of-america-fall-as-results-disappoint-2013-01-17?link=MW_story_popular

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60 percent of young Americans plan to purchase firearms, study reveals

http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4576

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Bernanke Says Fed Monitoring Quantitative Easing Effects

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-14/bernanke-says-fed-monitoring-quantitative-easing-effects.html

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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who drew criticism from Republicans over his support for loans to Solyndra LLC before the solar-panel maker went bankrupt, will leave his Cabinet post in President Barack Obama’s second term, according to two people familiar with the matter.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-17/energy-secretary-chu-said-to-plan-departure-from-cabinet.html

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Citigroup Goal Is to Stop Shareholder Capital Destruction

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-17/citi-ceo-says-goal-is-to-stop-destroying-shareholders-capital.html

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Horsemeat found in beefburgers on sale in UK and Ireland

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21034942

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Portland Woman Trapped Between Two Buildings Freed

http://abcnews.go.com/US/portland-woman-trapped-buildings/story?id=18228204

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DB Marketwatch can kiss my dimpled ass cheeks. They seem to suggest that Americans are deadbeats despite the fact that a lot of the write downs have occurred during the banking "crisis" while the banks are funded by the same dumb asses that have been driven to the brink by these scandalous m effers. Many of them still don't get it. What a dick.