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		<title>50 Mind Blowing Facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eiko</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;br/&gt;50 Mind Blowing Facts About America That Our Founding Fathers Never Would Have Believed If our Founding Fathers were alive today, what would they think of America?  Surely they would be very proud that the United States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific and has built some of the most amazing cities that the [...]


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		<title>Taxes. A List</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eiko</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;br/&gt;Sales Tax Hotel Tax School Tax Liquor Tax Luxury Tax Excise Taxes Property Tax Cigarette Tax Medicare Tax Inventory Tax Car Rental Tax Real Estate Tax Well Permit Tax Fuel Permit Tax Inheritance Tax Road Usage Tax CDL license Tax Dog License Tax State Income Tax Food License Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Gross Receipts Tax [...]


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		<title>More Stimulus: Geithner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eiko</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;br/&gt;More stimulus needed for economy: Geithner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday the United States needed more incentives to stimulate job growth and bolster a slow recovery from a &amp;#8220;savage&amp;#8221; recession. In televised interviews to argue for President Barack Obama&amp;#8217;s latest proposals for business investment tax breaks and infrastructure investment, Geithner [...]


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		<title>The Economic Collapse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eiko</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;br/&gt;As Americans Celebrate Labor Day 2010, U.S. Factories Are Closing In Droves Labor Day 2010 comes in the midst of a stunning wave of U.S. factory closings that stretches from coast to coast.  Once upon a time America was the greatest manufacturing machine that the world has ever seen, but now it seems as though [...]


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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eiko</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;br/&gt;Capital Investment Slowdown in U.S. Signals Reluctance to Hire By Timothy R. Homan Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) &amp;#8212; A slowdown in U.S. business investment may soon hit the job market, further hindering a recovery in the world’s largest economy. Capital spending, one of the few bright spots in the recovery, declined in July, according to Commerce [...]


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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eiko</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eiko</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;br/&gt;Mainstream Media is Crushing Public Confidence 23 AUGUST 2010 66 COMMENTS, By Greg Hunter&amp;#8230;USAWatchdog.com Recently, a new Gallup poll delivered some bad news to mainstream media–only one fourth of people asked believe what it says.  The Gallup story said, “Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news – with no more than 25% [...]


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		<title>Wal-Mart U.S. Sales Weak</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eiko</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;br/&gt;Wal-Mart profit up but U.S. sales weak CHICAGO (Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) posted a higher quarterly profit, helped by cost cuts and growth in international markets as sales at U.S. stores open at least a year fell. The world&amp;#8217;s largest retailer said on Tuesday profit was $3.60 billion, or 97 cents a share, [...]


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		<title>The Worst Case Scenario</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eiko</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;br/&gt;Since the economy began sliding downhill in late 2007, mainstream economic and market experts have consistently erred on the sunny side. As late as June 2008, mainstream consensus held that the U.S. was heading for a “soft landing” and would avoid recession. Several months later, the slump was acknowledged to have started in January 2008, [...]


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