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Spending for no reason
U.S. consumer spending held up in the latest retail figures, climbing 0.5 percent in December, despite confidence resting on shaky ground.
Embracing gridlock
Once again, Republicans and the White House are drawing lines in the sand concerning the next budget debate in Washington.
Bad news: The U.S. Treasury Department said it would not mint a trillion-dollar coin to keep the government from overspending its limit.
Another foreclosure mess
In the mid 1980s in a one-horse town in upstate New York, the government, with good reasoning, decided to build an addition to the Interstate highways system.
The agency Sen. Elizabeth Warren is credited with dreaming up is about to redefine the mortgage game.
Banking made simple
When is a bank a bank and when is a bank not a bank.
AIG's dilemma
This only makes sense if you think like a lawyer: Insurance giant American International Group may sue the government for the bailout that saved the company.
To Wall Street, the financial crisis that erupted in 2008 was a serious business interruption that affected jobs and bonuses.
Job creation up next
If Congress wants a jobs bill, it's going to have to go the long way to get one.
New bill, old dodge
As would be expected, banking giant Goldman Sachs Group revealed in a regulatory filing that it had sneaked some payments in under the wire in December.
Inventing a crisis
First you invent a crisis. Then you solve the crisis. Everybody wins. Isn't that how it works?
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Dow closes above 15,000
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A trader wears a DOW 15,000 hat on the floor of the NYSE before the closing bell on Wall Street In New York City on May 7, 2013. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 15,000 for the first time in history. UPI/John Angelillo