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Our economy’s engine is powered primarily by the 99% of the consuming public: the middle class and lower income groups.
Regardless of politics, it is a fact that the 99% spend more of their income to power the total economy than do the top 1%. It is pure logic by the numbers: the costs of the 99%er’s needs make up a much larger proportion of their income than those same needs of the top 1%. The 99% have to spend the money on food, clothing, and shelter leaving little or nothing left …
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S&P/Case Shiller U.S. Home Prices
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Housing Prices Under Pressure
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UPDATE: FRI 09 DEC 11 | 11:05 PM MT
Shale gas drilling: Pros & Cons
“While some complain that extracting natural gas from shale rock formations is tainting their water supply, others who have allowed drilling on their property are getting wealthy.” – Lesley Stahl reports.
(Aired: November 14, 2010 8:00 PM)
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High oil prices are taxing us to the point where it might be time to put your car on a diet, leave it parked at home – an intervention to free it from its gasoline addiction.
You think the price of oil is bad now; well, … what does it say that if our economy starts to improve more reliably, the price of oil will rise becauuuuse … more consumers consuming will trigger the powers-that-be-of-the-global-oil-markets, notwithstanding the hedge funders and oil speculators, to raise prices accordingly; … and, just when …
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Account For Change, Taking Stock »
What would a trade war with China really cost; and, more importantly, who would pay the highest price?
(video 3:48)
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Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden talks with Rachel Maddow about efforts by states attorneys general to hold banks accountable for the mess they made of the economy and their dirty dealings with mortgages.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
(video 8:47)
UPDATE: Battling The Banks On The Home Front
Paul Rieckoff, founder and executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for America, speaks about the banks conducting illegal foreclosures on veterans and US military serving abroad.
(video 7:16)
UPDATE: Massachusetts AG files suit against five of the nation’s biggest banks alleging foreclosure fraud.
Thu 01 Dec 11 | 04:11 …
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Mon 17 Oct 11 | 10:23 AM ET
“A viral uprising is urging people to take their money out of big banks and put it in smaller ones as a way to protest rising fees, with Bill Cheney, Credit Union National Association CUNA president/CEO.” – CNBC report
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