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Proposed Financial-Transaction Tax Bill Issue.
3 hours ago ago from Larry Fry\'s Blog Entries
There is a financial-transaction tax bill being proposed by the U.S. Congress that intends to levy a 0.25% tax on all equity trading transactions. The passing of this bill would damage the financial trading industry, making our financial markets even less efficient than they have already become. The end result would be the loss of untold numbers of jobs, and financial markets would become even more susceptible to crashes due to the ...
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13 hours ago ago from The Investing News Source for Financial Advisers - Proinvests.com News
C anada's corporate executives stand firmly behind Ottawa's decision to pump billions of stimulus dollars into the economy, and they aren't seriously worried about the huge budget deficits that are piling up. Senior executives who responded to the latest C-Suite survey say the stimulus spending was the right move at the right time to get the economy moving again, despite the creation of a federal deficit of more than $55-billion this ...
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21 hours ago ago from New America Today
POLITICO NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), who voted for a version of the health care bill that came out of the Senate Finance Committee, says she has major problems with bill as it stands now and would not support it. In meetings with President Barack Obama that came after Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) indicated he had 60 votes needed to end the debate, Snowe pleaded for more time to ...
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2 hours ago ago from Frum Follies
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12 hours ago ago from Your Green Ability
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Tanning Tax Replaces Bo-Tax in Health Care Bill
3 hours ago ago from Styledash
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