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Jerry Chautin: Small Business Financing May Suffer From Obama’s Proposed Budget and Political Wrangling

Small-business owners are holding their collective breaths as the Obama Administration’s proposed budget wends its way through the politically-charged Congress. Continue reading

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Most Americans Want The Government To Combat Foreclosures: Poll

With no end in sight to the foreclosure crisis, a majority of Americans are calling on the government to do something about it. Continue reading

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Jerry Chautin: HARP Is Harping on the Wrong Solution and Bilking Taxpayers

The revised HARP program will help a few homeowners and investors at taxpayers’ expense. It will release refinancing lenders from liability. And most disappointing, it may have no discernible effect on improving our economy Continue reading

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Biden Makes Huge Gaffe

Vice President Joe Biden told a Florida radio station Thursday that the Obama administration, not the Bush administration, is responsible for the stat… Read more: Florida Economy , U.S. Economy , Video , Joe Biden Economy , George Bush Economy , Florida Real Estate , Elections 2012 , Obama Economy , Joe Biden , Joe Biden Florida , Barack Obama , Politics News Continue reading

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Adam Levin: Medication for Middle-Class Mortgage Mania

These are extraordinary times and extraordinary times require public and private sector utilization of extraordinary measures to solve societal issues like the housing crisis. This issue cannot be properly addressed piecemeal. Continue reading

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Robert Lenzner: Obama’s Surprise Year End Gift to Wealthy Americans and Their Heirs

No one expected the Obama administration to give wealthy Americans the ability to give away, tax free, up to $5 million in 2011 or 2012 to anyone including children, grandchildren or friends. Continue reading

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Teddy Roosevelt: Estate Tax Champion, Republican Icon

Abolishing the estate tax has been a goal of some conservative Republicans since the 1940s, so it’s easy to forget that its modern champion was a president the GOP used to regard as among the greatest the party has produced — Theodore Roosevelt. Read more: Taxes , Theodore Roosevelt , Congress , Barack Obama , Wealth , Bush Tax Cuts , Death Tax , Tax Cuts , Gop , Estate Tax , Teddy Roosevelt , Republicans , Business News Continue reading

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Jim Worth: Sanctimonious Commander-in-Brief

The Tax Reform compromise may be President Obama’s Swan Song. The release of the compromised tax bill, negotiated between the Administration and Republicans, has resulted in acrimony between Obama and the congressional members of his party Continue reading

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Obama’s Huge Would-Be Gift To The Scions Of The Super-Rich

WASHINGTON — Millionaires and billionaires would reap big rewards if President Obama’s tax cut deal becomes law, but thanks to the agreement’s estate-tax provisions it’s their heirs who will make a real killing. The Obama concession that’s getting most of the attention in the media is the one that would extend the Bush income tax cuts even for households making over $250,000 a year Continue reading

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Gary D. Bass, Ph.D.: Obama Tax Cut Compromise Capitulates on Estate Tax

President Obama’s tax cut deal with congressional Republicans, if enacted by Congress, will achieve what President George W. Bush could not get done: create a path to effectively kill the estate tax. Some elements of the “compromise” reached Dec. Continue reading

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