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With Rates Low, Banks Increase Mortgage Profit
Interest rates on mortgages and refinancing are at record lows, but do not celebrate just yet, they could be lower.
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Credit to Small Enterprises: The Silent Crisis
Because the financial sector competes with the rest of the economy for scarce resources, financial booms are not, in general, growth-enhancing.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Texas Gov. Rick Perry Did It – Texas Executes Man Who Is Mentally Disabled, and More
In today's On the News segment: Corporations are on track to pay as much as $8 billion in fraud settlements this year to the US government; Texas Gov. Rick …
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America’s Ten Largest Corporations Paid Nine Percent Average Tax Rate Last Year
How much did you have to pay in taxes last year? The country's biggest corporations only had to pay nine percent.
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Bill Clinton Blasts Romney’s “Disappointing” New Welfare Claim
Clinton called Romney's charge against Obama's alleged plan to gut welfare reform
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Ten Ways School Reformers Get It Wrong
When it comes to education reform, we're not trying to reinvent the wheel anymore; instead we're building square ones.
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A Legislative Model for Dismantling Debtors’ Prisons
Illinois provides a new model for dismantling debtors' prisons across the country.
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The Koch Brothers Go After Actor Zach Galifianakis and the Film “The Campaign“
In the movie, Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow are a stand-in for the real-life right-wing political funders Charles and David Koch, and the Kochs aren't happy.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Legislation Would Place a Tax on Carbon Emissions, and More
In today's On the News segment:Â The world is on the brink of a major food crisis, Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott introduced legislation last week to place a tax on …
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Obama Signs Law Giving Health Care to Lejeune Tainted Water Victims
President Barack Obama signed into law on Monday legislation to provide health care to thousands of sick Marine veterans and their families who were exposed to contaminated water at …