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The End of The Ownership Society

End of the ‘Ownership Society’ Zachary Karabell NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Oct 20, 2008 Remember the ownership society? President George W. Bush championed the concept when he was running for re-election in 2004, envisioning a world in which every American family owned a house and a stock portfolio, and government stayed out of […]

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Wall Street by JT

US, NY probing credit-default swap market

By LARRY NEUMEISTER – 1 day ago NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors and New York’s attorney general said Monday they had taken the unusual step of joining forces to probe the multitrillion-dollar credit-default swap market, an unregulated area of finance blamed for helping to fuel the credit crisis. The offices of U.S. Attorney Michael […]

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