Tag: money
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gold tops $800 for first time since 1980
from ap: Gold barreled above $800 an ounce Wednesday for the first time since 1980 as investors cheered the Federal Reserve’s decision to lower its-benchmark interest rate by a quarter point. The Fed lowered its federal funds rate to 4.50 percent, as the markets widely anticipated. Lower interest rates tend to undermine the dollar and…
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state dept can’t account for $1b paid to dyncorp
question: how much was spent on establishing a prostitution and slave ring in bosnia? from nytimes: A pair of new reports have delivered sharply critical judgments about the State Department’s performance in overseeing work done by the private companies that the government relies on increasingly in Iraq and Afghanistan to carry out delicate security work…
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9/11 families criticized for ‘silent’ settlement
from raw story:: Five Maryland families, all of whom agreed to an out-of-court settlement with the airline industry over their loved ones’ deaths on Sept. 11, are drawing some pointed criticism for agreeing to keep silent about what they learned during the course of the lawsuit. The families, who chose not to receive money through…
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ron paul fundraising increases 114% in 3rd quarter
from ron paul 2008: The Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign raised $5,080,000 during the third quarter of 2007. That is an impressive 114 percent increase from the second quarter. Cash on hand for the Paul campaign is $5,300,000. “Dr. Paul’s message is freedom, peace and prosperity,” said Paul campaign chairman Kent Snyder. “As these fundraising…
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ron paul surpasses $1m in donations in less than a week
from digg: Was $1 million too conservative a figure? Make my day, impress the media, and set all our opponents back on their heels, by shooting past $1 million before Midnight on Sunday, September 30! How high can we go? $1.5 million? Donate here. And from the bottom of my heart: Thank you! Sincerely, Ron
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ron paul raises more than entire texas gop
from free market news: Sources close to the Ron Paul (R-Tex) presidential campaign point out gleefully that in a single night Ron Paul took in more money – $102,000 – than the entire GOP apparatus did with its convoluted “first ever” straw poll – $97,500. The recent Texas straw poll reportedly charged $75 a head…
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run on banks in los angeles amid crisis
from raw story: Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. says customers are “running out of money.” Earlier this week, consumer juggernauts Home Depot and Wal-Mart reported softer than expected earnings. Penned the New York Times, “the sober forecasts reverberated across Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index…
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paul raised more from military than other republicans
from iraq slogger: Congressman Ron Paul has defined his Republican presidential candidacy with a staunchly critical stance on the Iraq war, saying during the June 5 debate in New Hampshire, for example, that it was a “mistake to go and a mistake to stay.” … One might think such criticism of the war and the…
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paul tops mccain in campaign cash
from raw story: Ron Paul’s Republican presidential campaign raised $2.4 million in the second quarter of this year and currently has that much money in the bank, topping onetime-frontrunner John McCain’s $2 million cash on hand, ABC News reported. The campaign’s most recent haul is nearly quadruple its first quarter fundraising total, which the campaign…
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pentagram can’t account for $19b spent on iraqi forces
from washington post: The United States has invested $19 billion to train and equip nearly 350,000 Iraqi soldiers and police since toppling Saddam Hussein, but the ability of those forces to provide security remains in doubt, according to the findings of a bipartisan congressional investigation to be released today. As a result, President Bush’s pledge…
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bush pledges more free money to israel
from bring it on!: Israel currently receives $2.4 billion annually in military aid. This is in addition to the dozens of million dollar loans given to Israel of which most have been forgiven. Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today’s population, that is more than $5,700 for…