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ThinkFast: March 10, 2010

ThinkFast: March 10, 2010

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), who is a playing a crucial role in bipartisan negotiations over financial regulation, pushed to remove a provision from draft legislation that would have empowered federal authorities to crack down on payday lenders . The industry is politically influential in his home state and a significant contributor to his campaigns...

Brazilian Tariffs: Test for President Obama’s National Export Initiative

Brazilian Tariffs: Test for President Obama’s National Export Initiative

In a retaliatory response to the U.S. governments unwillingness to eliminate domestic cotton subsidies, Brazil has announced higher tariffs on over...

Pink Floyd Take EMI To Court Over Online Royalties, Unbundling

Pink Floyd Take EMI To Court Over Online Royalties, Unbundling

Litigious EMI may have avoided a court showdown with yet another digital music startup (its settled a case over lyrics data with TuneWiki), but its also fighting a case brought...

Jobless Benefits as Entitlement

Temporary safety net or permanent entitlement program? Thats the question some conservative voices are asking as Congress eyes yet another filing extension for federal...

Naked Senator Is Working on a Memoir

Naked Senator Is Working on a Memoir

Scott Brown , Massachusetts Republican and former Cosmo centerfold, is working on a memoir scheduled to hit shelves in 2011. He may be stuck in Teddy Kennedy's old seat, but he'...

Is The Administration Being Too Harsh On Health Insurers?

Is The Administration Being Too Harsh On Health Insurers?

Insurers have responded to the administrations campaign against recent rate hikes by blaming increasing health care costs, provider cost increases and adverse selection (...

Women of color face wealth and wage gaps

Women of color face wealth and wage gaps

A new report from the Insight Center for Community Economic Development highlights one big reason that just addressing wage gaps be they gender- or race-based wont necessarily...

It Begins: China Cracks Down On The Shadow Banking System That Is Inflating Its Real Estate Bubble

It Begins: China Cracks Down On The Shadow Banking System That Is Inflating Its Real Estate Bubble

In what appears to be an effort to stem the rise of real estate prices in China, the China Banking Regulatory Commission said today that it would step up monitoring of non-bank...

British woman killed in Afghanistan Sarah Bryant 'inadequately trained'

A coroner examining the death of the first British woman to die in the war in Afghanistan said today that she had received inadequate training and was driving in the wrong type...

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