yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 3/12/2009
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Sam Stein reports that Citigroup, which only still exists as a firm thanks to taxpayer largess, was hosting a conference call to help mobilize opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act. This, it seems, is capitalism. First you manage your business so catastrophically badly that your company ...
online.wsj.com - 3/10/2009
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online.wsj.com —
U.S. officials are discussing contingency plans for stabilizing
Citi if needed. Shares of the bank, which briefly...
fell under $1 last week, rose slightly.
(more)
U.S. Weighs Further Steps for Citi
foxbusiness.com - 3/10/2009
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foxbusiness.com —
The Dow surged nearly 400 points Tuesday --
its best day in an otherwise dismal 2009 --...
as Wall Street cheered after embattled Citigroup said it was profitable during the first two months of the year. Today’s Markets The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
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Citi Lights Up Wall Street; Best Day of '09
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More Civil Liberties Poseurs
JustOneMinute —
... and Matt Yglesias show their unsteady commitment to civil liberties by backing the silencing of anyone who received TARP money. The topic is the right of ...
“Civil Liberties For Our Side Only”
Discriminations —
Tom Maguire skewers liberals Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias for “their unsteady commitment to civil liberties.”
“The topic,” Maguire writes,
is the right of Deborah Weinsig, a Citigroup equity analyst who covers retail stocks, to explain to her clients why she thinks that card check will be bad for WalMart.
Mr. Klein:
This is a big deal for two reasons. First, it calls into question the impartiality of Citibank's ratings division. Second, it happened amidst a ...
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Just 9% of Non-Union Workers Want to Join Union
rasmussenreports.com 3/16/2009 — Union members tend to believe that most workers want to join a labor union. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 47% of union members hold that view while only 18% disagree. But those who don’t belong to a union hold a ...
TaxPayersFor CommonSense: "State by State Breakdown of Earmarks"
taxpayer.net 3/20/2009 — March 13, 2009 Update: Version 5 is now available. (Download it here) This version includes member state and party, and also allows for a partisan tabulation of who got how many earmarks. We did not try to parse an earmark among parties; we only ...
Citi to Allow Jobless to Pay Less on Loans
online.wsj.com 3/3/2009 — Citigroup will temporarily lower mortgage payments for certain borrowers who have recently lost their jobs and are at least 60 days behind on their payments.
Citi Said to Need Up to $10 Billion
online.wsj.com 5/2/2009 — DAVID ENRICH and DAMIAN PALETTA WASHINGTON -- Citigroup Inc. may need to raise as much as $10 billion in new capital, according to people familiar with the matter, as the government continues negotiations with banks over the results of its so-called ...
Union employees go on strike … against the union
hotair.com 3/19/2009 — In the Someone Left The Irony On Department, the SEIU has a new problem besides Democratic defectors on Card Check. A planned layoff has a union local filing a complaint with the NRLB over unfair labor practices and accuses the employer of bypassing ...
Chuck Norris for president … of Texas —
CNN Political Ticker 3/11/2009
Chuck Norris would be interested in becoming president of Texas.
(CNN) – Actor Chuck Norris has his eyes on the presidency, but not the White House.
Norris wrote that he would be interested in becoming the president of Texas, if the state were ever ...
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