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Obama's Economic Plan: His Tax Grab

Senator Obama gave an interview today to the WSJ about his economic plans. I'll post something later about the whole plan, such as it is, but this part caught my eye:

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Washington's reform proposals and Fed's response to Bear Stearns

There have been so many housing and mortgage proposals and counterproposals released in the past few weeks and yesterday's Wall Street Journal pretty much sums up the state of the housing and mortgage markets.

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Bloomberg Releases Statement On Financial Regulatory Reform Plan

"Today, Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson has offered a balanced and thoughtful approach to modernizing our financial system. Secretary Paulson rightly recognizes that we can help mitigate future market turmoil with smarter regulation, but that we must resist the growing political pressure to rush headlong into ill-considered regulations that would stifle innovation, drive jobs overseas, and hurt America's economic health.

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India to Spend Billions of Dollars to Help Farmers

The Indian government says it will spend billions of dollars to help farmers and revive the rural economy. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the promise comes ahead of general elections scheduled for next year.

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House approves Senate amended economic stimulus package

The United States House of Representatives has passed the bipartisan US$152 billion economic stimulus package that gives one-time rebates to United States citizens, US$600 for individuals or US$1,200 for couples plus US$300 for each child.

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Turbulence provides opportunity for reform

The PM has outlined his ideas to use the current global financial turbulence as an opportunity to reform and strengthen the world economy.

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Agreement on Economic Stimulus Package, Tax Rebates

President Bush and Congressional leaders from both political parties have reached agreement on $150 billion in tax relief in an effort to help stimulate the U.S. economy. The economic stimulus package includes much talked-about tax rebates.

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U.S. Agrees On Tax Terms of Economic Stimulus Package

The economic stimulus package, agreed tentatively by the democrats and republicans omits UI and Food Stamp Provisions.

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India's Goa Inspires Opponents to Land Deals

The tiny coastal state of Goa has become the first state in India to rescind the creation of special economic zones - putting it into conflict with the central government and powerful developers across the country. Environmentalists and other opponents argue the zones only enrich land speculators and are of dubious economic value to the public. VOA's Steve Herman has more from Goa.

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Reserve Bank of Australia Urged To Release Minutes

With the Reserve Bank expected to leave official interest rates on hold at today's monthly meeting, the debate over greater transparency of the Board's deliberations has re-emerged.

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US Officials Press China on Economic Reform Before Talks

U.S. officials released a barrage of statements Monday prodding China to do more to reform its economy.

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