| Bikers vow to challenge tickets - WATERVILLE -- Police put local motorcyclists on alert this weekend, after handing out 13 tickets for loud exhaust pipes.
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| BoI startles with interest hike - Stanley Fischer sprang a surprise yesterday: The governor of the Bank of Israel raised the base interest rate, in utter contrast to prevailing opinion among economists, who had assumed the murk of economic uncertainty would preclude a rate hike.
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| Something has to give - Cross-posted from The price of everything By Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management, a London-based fund manager More than half of all workers have experienced a spell of unemployment, taken a cut in pay or hours or been forced to go part-time. The typical unemployed worker has been jobless for nearly six months. Collapsing [...
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| Dummy's guide to stretching paychecks - Investment options that can help you minimise your tax outgo and stash that little extra away for a rainy day.
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| AP source: Obamas to Vacation on Gulf Coast - A White House official says President Barack Obama and his family will vacation on Florida's Gulf Coast next month.
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| Obama signs sweeping financial overhaul into law - In a note of irony, Obama signs the bill with great fanfare in the massive Ronald Reagan Building, named after a president who championed deregulation.
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| Here's What Would Happen If Greece Left The Euro - I have often said that Greece would be able to better serve its citizenry in the long-term if it regained its monetary sovereignty by leaving the EMU and restructuring its debt. ING recently detailed a potential scenario should that occur.
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| Wrong folks to fix the banks - Anytime Congress passes a 2,300-page law that creates 500-plus new regulations and sets up a complicated bureaucracy, we should be nervous. The major financial overhaul that has cleared the final hurdles in the Senate proves the rule. The legislation -- the brainchild of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Rep...
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| Poll: Americans blame Bush, not Obama, for deficit, jobs, Afghan war - Asked to compare Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina with Obama's handling of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, 51 percent say Bush's performance was worse, while 35 percent name Obama.
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| Both the Dow and SPX were thwarted by round-number resistance - Stocks valiantly attempted to extend their winning streak today, but the release of the minutes from the latest meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) forced the bulls to pump their brakes...( Read More )
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