What’s in a name? A little extra cash, if the name is that of Italy’s wartime Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini or his wife.
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25
Nov
Tags: Babies, Benito Mussolini, Dictator Benito, Extra Cash, Fascist Dictator, Italy, Money
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25
Nov
The leadership of the economic team Obama introduced Monday embraces a view that an economic crisis of the proportion now seizing the country requires a massive injection of money into a teetering system.
Tags: Economic Crisis, Economic Team, Embrace, Geithner, Leadership, Massive Injection, Money, Proportion, Stimulus
25
Nov
Wars. Bailouts. Unemployment aid. Automakers. Washington has opened the tap on big spending and money is gushing down the pipeline.
Tags: Automakers, Gusher, Money, Pipeline, Tap, Unemployment
25
Nov
Not a bad idea. Turns out that a lot of them lost their funding during the campaign because Obama “successfully convinced the Democratic financiers to channel their money to him and few else.”
The poster, Sam Stein, further points out:
[div class="excerpt"][b]This draining of the swamp forced…
Tags: Advocacy Groups, Bad Idea, Dean, Dnc, Elections, Excerpt, Financiers, Money, Poster, Progressive, Swamp
24
Nov
With the economy worsening and the Bush team adrift, queasy markets are looking to Barack Obama to set the course. But is naming a Treasury secretary enough?
Tags: Barack Obama, Bush Team, Economy, Money, Newsweek, Treasury Secretary
24
Nov
With newfound bailout money in their wallets, big banks have been rushing to gobble up smaller ones.
Tags: Bank Bailout, Bank Mergers, Banks, Money, Wallets
21
Nov
A councillor has lost his fight to restore a castle, but says his campaign will go on.
Monmouthshire councillors rejected Tony Easson’s call for funding to be “sourced immediately” by the authority to make repairs to Caldicot Castle.
Problems include the roof of the south-west tower leaking and windows rotting in the banqueting hall.
Tags: Banqueting Hall, Councillor, Councillors, Money, South West Tower
19
Nov
He is in jail without bail.
Posted by madfloridian's Journal - Democratic Underground Published in Political CommentaryYou do not mess with Grady Judd or his mother.
http://www.theledger.com/article/20081118/NEWS/811180382/1410?Title=Church_Visitation_Card_Leads_to_Robbery_Arrest
“LAKELAND | Polk sheriff’s detectives tracked down a suspect in Sunday’s theft of money from the Crystal Lake Baptist Church thro…
Tags: Church Visitation, Crystal Lake, Detectives, Lakeland, Money, Robbery, Thro
19
Nov
11. Introduce a global currency based on the Triganic Pu with an exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu.10. Scam some Nigerians to get money back.
Tags: Economy, Exchange Rate, Geeks, Global Currency, Money, Nigerians
19
Nov
But not just any church. It was the church attended by the step-mom of the sheriff. A man took a hundred dollars from her hand and ran away. But you do not piss off Sheriff Judd and his deputies.
This seems like overkill to me.
The man should not have taken the money, that should go without…
Tags: Deputies, Helicopter Man, Money, Overkill, Piss, Step Mom
18
Nov
Authorities on Florida’s east coast have arrested a man in a wheelchair who they say robbed a credit union on Merritt Island and hid the money in his prosthetic leg.
Tags: Authorities, East Coast, Hid, Man In Wheelchair, Merritt Island, Money, Prosthetic Leg
17
Nov
Yes, I posted this last year. But I was reading it over again in the light of the transition team, in the light of Obama’s staff picks. We are still in waiting mode, but never too early to be on guard. As an aside: I think we are very lucky to have Obama as our President Elect. If I question, it …
Tags: Lucky, Money, Transition Team
17
Nov
Democrats’ Soft Spot for Automakers Have Shielded Detroit from Its Own Bad Decisions
Posted by admin Published in NewsThe automobile lobby is back on Capitol Hill to secure $25 billion in loans. Will the money get wasted or put to good use?
Tags: Automakers, Automobile, Bad Decisions, Capitol Hill, Democrats, Loans, Money, Soft Spot
17
Nov
$2 Trillion Handed out by Paulson and Bernanke, But Who Got It, Nobody Knows
Posted by admin Published in NewsWe have no idea who got this money or the conditions or collateral put up in return for the loans.
17
Nov
Democrats’ Soft Spot for Automakers Have Shielded Detroit from Its Own Bad Decisions
Posted by admin Published in NewsThe automobile lobby is back on Capitol Hill to secure $25 billion in loans. Will the money get wasted or put to good use?
Tags: Automakers, Automobile, Bad Decisions, Capitol Hill, Democrats, Loans, Money, Soft Spot
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