United States home foreclosure sales are slowing in the states hardest-hit by the real estate crash as banks review their practices and delay seizures, Bloomberg News reported. In Arizona, California and Nevada, foreclosure auctions on courthouse steps, known as trustee sales, are down 42 percent since Sept. 20, according to ForeclosureRadar, a real estate tracking [...]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former President Bill Clinton swung through Arkansas this week for a handful of campaign stops in his home state, taking a few hard-hitting swings at Republican opponents who are attacking his old friends running for office. On Thursday morning, Clinton joined 2nd Congressional District candidate Joyce Elliott for a rally in [...]
Investors swindled by Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme may be happy to know that his 8,800-square-foot Palm Beach home is close to being sold — although the pricetag is drop in the bucket compared with Mr. Madoff’s $65 billion fraud. The lakefront house belonging to the imprisoned financier and his wife, Ruth, which has been [...]
With less than month until the election — and early voting about to start in many states — First Lady Michelle Obama finally jumped in the political fray on Wednesday, trying to fire up younger Democrats in a 12-minute conference call sponsored by the grassroots organizing arm of the Democratic National Committee. “Don’t stay home,” [...]
The national debt surpassed trillion in June. A Pew Research poll shows that 55 percent of Americans have seen a decline in their income since the Great Recession started, consumer confidence has dropped by twenty percent, and the markets took a plunge. Alyona asks if we are headed for a double dip, a third depression. Alyona discusses what the stock markets are indicating with Reason Foundation policy analyst Anthony Randazzo.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban insurgents are tiring after nine years of war and taking heavy casualties; at home, President Obama faces rising political pressure to withdraw the troops and scale back the unpopular U.S. commitment, now costing over $5 billion and over 60 American battle dead a month. So why not agree to end it? [...]
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