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Now that you’ve wiped away yesterday’s tears and begun to accept that sales of overpriced U.S.

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Affordable Housing Is Not a Crime

It’s all in that capitalist concept of “branding.” All the sneering about the inequalities “inherent” in capitalism, famous novelists presaging and praying for the collapse of the “capitalist system,” seems to have had the desired effect.

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Rebranding Capitalism

The financial crisis appears to have awoken a host of Bolsheviks from their post-cold war slumber. Free markets and deregulation have been blamed for everything from the housing bubble to the Gulf oil spill

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Do Free Markets Lead to Fairer Wages?

September is the new June, as the deadline to close on houses purchased with the First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit comes…and goes. If you can produce paperwork indicating that you signed papers on a home purchase before April 30, you now have until September 30 to close. The original deadline for the tax credit was settlement by today

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The Home Buyer Tax Credit Has Risen From the Grave!

It’s hardly surprising that President Obama’s deficit commission has become a font of unintented (if wince-inducing ) hoo-larity. Nor is it a shocker that diabolically effective labor organizer Andy Stern would be brazen about re-molding government to benefit public sector workers at the direct expense of the rest of us . Still, there’s something irritating about seeing a presidentially appointed deficit commissioner and inner circle FoB uncork statements like these : “America needs a 21st century economic plan because we now know the market-worshipping, privatizing, de-regulating, dehumanizing American financial plan has failed and should never be revived, worshipping the market again,” Stern said in remarks at the annual conference of the liberal activist group Campaign for America’s Future in Washington on Monday.

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National Deficit-Reduction Commissioner: “The market-worshipping, privatizing, de-regulating, dehumanizing American financial plan has failed and…

Nothing like sitting around waiting for the double dip recession at home, watching the Dow plunge , or listening to the doors of European banks slam shut , to make a person feel like a used car might be the way to go, rather than something shiny and new.

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Used Car Prices Rise as Administration Declares Victory on Cash for Clunkers

The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are in the preliminary stages of an antitrust investigation of Apple Inc. regarding app development for the iPhone. The two agencies divide up antitrust prosecutions

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There’s Something Wrong With a World Where Apple Has a Monopoly on Anything

The Contra Costa Times reports on some great news from San Pablo, California: The San Pablo City Council this week dropped plans to extend its eminent domain authority, bending to a raucous groundswell of mistrust and resentment of city government that included threats of a recall. The council action — 4-0 with Councilman Arturo Cruz abstaining — amounted to a no-vote on a series of ordinances and resolutions to amend redevelopment plans covering more than 90 percent of the city; one of the ordinances would have reinstated for 12 years the agency’s powers of eminent domain, which lapsed in March 2009.

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Victory Against Eminent Domain Abuse in San Pablo

Yesterday, the Food and Drug Adminstration approved the new prostate cancer vaccine , Provenge, developed by the biotech company Dendreon. The vaccine is created by exposing patients’ immune cells outside the body to prostate cancer cells

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FDA Finally Gets Around to Approving New Cancer Vaccine