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By Marcy Gordon / Associated Press (4 Nov 09) WASHINGTON – JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to a settlement worth more than $700 million

First Time Home Buyers As A Percent of Total Home Purchases View larger chart at Clusterstock

By Lindsey Tanner Breitbart.com (2 Nov 09) CHICAGO (AP) – Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on

By Tamal Bandyopadhyay and Anup Roy Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India, or RBI, is buying 200 tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund

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Pat Marfisi carries alfalfa hay into his Hollywood Hills bakyard, but there aren’t any animals to feed. It’s for his “no-dig” vegetable garden. (Robert Lachman

McClatchy (1 Nov 2009) WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000

The information, relayed to a specialized light-processing region of the brain called ”cluster N”, helps the robin find its way on migration flights. Experts know

By Pam Martens The financial tsunami unleashed by Wall Street’s esurient alchemy of spinning toxic home mortgages into triple-A bonds, a process known as securitization,