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POPSU.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie, Wallison Says “The situation is they are losing gobs of money, up to $400 billion in mortgages,” Wallison said in a Bloomberg Television interview. The Treasury Department recognized last week that losses will be more than $400 billion when it raised its limit on federal support for the two government-sponsored enterprises, he said. Lax regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led to the mortgage companies taking on too many risky loans, Wallison said. “It turns out it was impossible to regulate them,” he said. “They were too powerful.” He said no one knows how much will be needed to keep the companies solvent. U.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie, Wallison Says - Bloomberg.com http://bit.ly/8FhHPH
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POPSDHS Sec. Napolitano Should Step Down For a while Republicans have called for DHS Sec. Napolitano to step down, but now so are many Democrats. A former police officer or army official should head this department instead of some politician President Obama knows and owes a favor to after she endorsed him on January 11, 2008; on November 5, 2008, she joined the Obama-Biden Transition Project
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POPSWhat a rebound? Not paying your mortgage because of modification, adds to the economy in a different way.
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POPSPeople In “Fat Cat”-Infested Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones By Michelle Malkin 
Immediately after the speech, he headed to a campaign fundraiser at the Manhattan headquarters of Credit Suisse, one of the major investment companies caught up in the subprime lending debacle. In March 2009, Obama assailed the corporate bonuses handed out by bailout recipient AIG"which had been approved by his own handpicked Treasury Secretary and AIG bailout architect Tim Geithner. But let’s not get distracted. Obama blamed “the system and culture that made them possible"a culture where people made enormous sums of money, taking irresponsible risks that have now put the entire economy at risk.” The irresponsible risk-takers at AIG donated $104,332 to Barack Obama in the 2008 federal election cycle. Since 2004, AIG has donated 60 percent of its $2.6 million in political donations to Democrats. Obama kept the corrupted cash. But I digress. “We don’t need these house of cards, these Ponzi schemes, even when they’re legal, where a relatively few do spectacularly well ...
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POPSSteuerklärung 2008 endlich abgegeben... auf den letzten Drücker! Zum Glück habe ich gerade noch rechtzeitig daran gedacht und einen tollen Steuerberater in Nürnberg gefunden, der sich nun perfekt um meine Lohnsteuererklärung des vergangenen Jahres kümmert... Dabei verdient er wahrscheinlich ganz gut an mir, aber besser so: Ich spare und er verdient, als das das Finanzamt alles bekommt, oder?
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POPS'Gore Effect' Slams Copenhagen With Subfreezing Temps • HOUSE HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER SNOW/ICE STORM: Drudge Report, February 2007 • NOT AGAIN! DC 'Snow Advisory' Issued on Day of Congressional Global Warming Hearing: Times, March 2007 • Gore decries 'global warming' in bitterly cold NYC: WND, December 2006 • Gore delivers environmental message at Harvard ...with near 125-year record breaking low temps: MOTLS, October 2008 • Global warming activists urged to focus on Earth Day rallies and ignore snow as it 'piles up outside our windows': Alarmism, April 17, 2007 • No Joke! Cyclists 'braved freezing cold temps' to promote global warming awareness in New York: WKTV, October 22, 2008 • Global warming protest in Maryland frosted with snow: Baltimore Sun, January 2008 • Global warming rally in the snow: Alarmism, April 2007 • Snow won't dampen global-warming rallies: Live Daily, April 2007
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POPSOnline spending in America is rising These small graphs provide a quick comparison of one economic metric. It will be interesting to compare the relative numbers for "online" and "offline" (traditional) shopping consumer and business spending (since historically consumer spending is 2/3rds of the relative economic activity).
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POPSFBI and Hate Crimes In Madison County, Idaho, elementary school children allegedly chanted “assassinate Obama” on a school bus. In Mount Desert Island, Maine, black effigies were reportedly hung from nooses. Many of the election-related hate crimes were violent. For example, there were five reported attacks by white supremacists on blacks and Latinos in California’s San Jacinto Valley that police described as a reaction to the election. And on Staten Island, two 18-year-olds were among a group of men who yelled “Obama” as they assaulted a black teenager with a baseball bat just hours after Obama clinched the presidency. One of the most widely publicized incidents involved the burning of a black church, the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, just a few hours after Obama’s win was confirmed. At the time of the burning, federal investigators called the act a probable hate crime.
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POPSYour Senator is probably a millionaire These people have too much money to be representative of Americans generally, and they make too much of their money by investments regulated (or not) by laws of their own making.
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POPSMumbai Under Attack: November 28, 2008 35 photos-boston.com...Late Wednesday night, Mumbai, India found itself the target of a ferocious terrorist attack, and the situation remains unresolved even now, three days later. According to reports, upwards of 60 young men entered Mumbai in small inflatable boats on Wednesday night, carrying bags filled with weapons and ammunition, and spread out to nine locations to begin their attacks. Lobbing grenades and firing their weapons, they entered hotels, a railway station and several other buildings, killing scores and wounding even more. As of this moment, the identity of the attackers has yet to be definitively determined, though there are reports indicating some of the gunmen were Pakistani - at least nine of them have been killed, nine more arrested. As of this writing, there were a reported 151 people killed from 11 different countries - though nearly 100 were Indian. More than 300 injuries have also been reported - those numbers may yet rise as several hostage situations
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POPS Household Poisons and Foods that can Kill your Pet In 2008, the Animal Poison Control Center (ASPCA) handled over 140,000 cases pertaining to pets that were exposed to toxic substances, and many included everyday household products in and around their own homes. In response ASPCA put together the top 10 list of pet poisons in 2008, and it’s important that you become familiar with this list to help prevent any mishaps at home.
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