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		<title>Carbon Capitalists Warming to Climate Market Using Derivatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Across Uganda, thousands of women warm supper over new, $8 orange-painted stoves. The clay-and- metal pots burn about two-thirds the charcoal of the open-fire cooking typical of East Africa, where forests are being chopped down in the struggle to feed the region’s 125 million people. Four thousand miles away, at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financenews101.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10257406&amp;post=355&amp;subd=financenews101&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Controller Alan Hevesi and actress Peggy Lipton caught up in huge pension bribery scandal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Controller Alan Hevesi took $75,000 in luxury trips from an investment banker who admitted paying nearly $1 million in bribes for state pension fund business, sources said. It&#8217;s the first time Hevesi was directly linked to the massive pay-to-play scandal that engulfed his office. Hevesi and former &#8220;Mod Squad&#8221; actress Peggy Lipton benefited from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financenews101.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10257406&amp;post=353&amp;subd=financenews101&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trickle-up economics: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs senior executives are arming themselves with New York gun permits, according to Alice Schroeder on Bloomberg.com. The banksters “are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.” One can understand why the banksters are worried. The company, now known as Gold Sacks, has a large responsibility for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financenews101.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10257406&amp;post=352&amp;subd=financenews101&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pay cut for two million Britons causes collapse in tax revenue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost two million Britons have accepted pay cuts or reduced hours to stave off unemployment, causing government income tax receipts to collapse by almost one fifth. The Government is now facing the biggest peacetime deficit in history, and ministers will next week confirm they are likely to borrow close to £180 billion this year – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financenews101.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10257406&amp;post=350&amp;subd=financenews101&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AmTrust, Five Other U.S. Lenders Shut as 2009 Toll Reaches 130</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AmTrust Bank, a Cleveland-based lender with $12 billion in assets, joined five other U.S. banks in being seized by regulators as companies buckle under the weight of commercial real estate losses. Closely held AmTrust collapsed alongside three banks in Georgia and one each in Virginia and Illinois, according to statements issued yesterday by the Federal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financenews101.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10257406&amp;post=348&amp;subd=financenews101&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A deeper look behind the jobless numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the vast pool of 15.4 million unemployed workers, a split is emerging: The number of long-term jobless — those out of work six months or longer — is growing, while the number of short-term unemployed is declining. The trend highlights a considerable challenge for the economy and policymakers: finding a way for the millions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financenews101.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10257406&amp;post=346&amp;subd=financenews101&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>17 million Americans have no bank account</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And another 18% that do still use non-traditional banking services like pawn shops and payday lenders, according to FDIC survey. ew York State is known as the nation&#8217;s financial capital, yet nearly one in 10 of its residents do not have a checking or savings account. And while Texas is densely populated with banks, nearly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financenews101.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10257406&amp;post=344&amp;subd=financenews101&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke Channels Willie Sutton In Assault On Social Security: &#8216;That&#8217;s Where The Money Is&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke has overseen the greatest expansion of the Federal Reserve&#8217;s balance sheet in its history, pouring trillions of dollars into Wall Street firms at roughly zero interest rates. His generosity, however, has a limit. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee today, where he&#8217;s seeking re-appointment as the Fed&#8217;s chairman, Bernanke called for cutbacks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financenews101.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10257406&amp;post=342&amp;subd=financenews101&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. already $292 bln in the red this year &#8211; CBO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government racked up a gaping shortfall in the first two months of this fiscal year after posting a record budget deficit last year, congressional analysts said on Friday. In October and November, the government spent $292 billion more than it took in, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said. That was even worse than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financenews101.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10257406&amp;post=340&amp;subd=financenews101&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Geithner Extends $700 Billion Bank-Bailout Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael C</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) &#8212; The Obama administration extended the $700 billion financial-rescue program until October, arguing that the U.S. must hold on to the money in case of new financial shocks. In a letter today to congressional leaders, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the department doesn’t expect to deploy more than $550 billion of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=financenews101.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10257406&amp;post=338&amp;subd=financenews101&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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