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PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail – According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under the Speaker’s bill would cost $15,000 in 2016. Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail. Insane people are ruining America.
Rare virus poses new threat to troops - U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus.
Banks in Ga., Mich., Minn., Mo., Calif. closed – Regulators shut banks in 5 states; marks 120 US bank failures this year
Freddie Mac posts $5 billion loss – In order to ease the terms of loans under the Obama administration’s Making Home Affordable refinancing program, the companies must buy the mortgages out of securities, and write down their value. Seeking alternatives to foreclosures also means bad loans sit on their books longer. Guess who is going to pay
Report: 237 millionaires in Congress - The Oligarchs that ruin America
China brands US ‘protectionist’ – Trade war?
Gold Advances to Record in New York, London After Jobs Data – Bullion is heading for a ninth consecutive annual gain and approaching $1,100 an ounce for the first time as investors seek to protect their wealth from the threat of inflation and the debasement of the U.S. currency.
Many California jobs ’saved’ by stimulus funds weren’t in jeopardy – Up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as saved by federal stimulus money in Californiaprobably never were in danger
Latvia Spares Currency, Devalues Economy to Save Path to Euro – The Latvian economy probably will shrink a total 27 percent from peak to trough, according to an IMF report. Indonesia, by comparison, shrank 19 percent from peak to trough during the Asian crisis of the late 1990s.
