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• The Lesson of JP Morgan's $2 Billion Loss: Break Up the Big Banks

  Source: The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com

  The reports are startlingly familiar. Late Thursday, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon announced a surprise $2 billion trading loss and stocks swooned. Diamond insisted, though, that there was no need for a Volcker Rule that would ban big banks from risky trading. Last week, a Reuters  …

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• The Romney Record at Bain: Bankruptcies, Bailouts, & Mass Layoffs

  Source: Think Progress

  Mitt Romney’s pitch is that he’s a “businessman” who understands the “real economy,” in contrast to President Obama who Romney says “doesn’t understand how the economy works.” During a presidential debate in November, Romney …

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• Ted Nugent enters plea agreement in illegal bear killing | The Raw Story

  Source: Raw Story

  If trouble comes in threes, then right-wing singer Ted Nugent’s recent problems may have begun a week ago, when he entered a plea agreement in the illegal killing of an Alaskan black bear.

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• Economist, It Does Not Require Economist.

  I spotted this headline link as I logged onto the Internet this morning, and I almost choked. I guess some Economist decided that we could save some money were we to legalize marijuana. I disagree. I belie …

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• Former Citigroup Chairman Blames Deregulation For The Financial Crisis | ThinkProgress

  Source: Think Progress

  Richard Parsons, the former chairman of mega-bank Citigroup (who stepped down from his post just a few days ago), said yesterday that the repeal of Glass-Steagall — the Depression-era regulation separating investment and commercial banking — helped precipita …

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