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18 Congressmen Ask Obama to Reschedule Marijuana
by turtledove on 13 Feb 2014   30 comments, latest 10 years ago
18 Congressmen Ask Obama to Reschedule Marijuana Bipartisan group says pot's 'Schedule I' classification 'makes no sense.' Eighteen members of Congress are asking President Barack Obama, who recently said ...

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White House: It's A Good Thing That Obamacare Will Drive 2.5 Million Americans
by turtledove on 5 Feb 2014   19 comments, latest 10 years ago
Yesterday, Washington’s official non-partisan bean-counter, the Congressional Budget Office, dropped a bomb. By 2024, says the CBO, Obamacare will reduce the size of the U.S. labor force by 2.5 ...

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Oh, No: Now We Need Obamacare for Education
by turtledove on 3 Dec 2013   6 comments, latest 10 years ago
The latest news on U.S. educational attainment is depressing enough, since American kids are falling even further behind their counterparts in other countries. The implications may be more troubling ...

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Why Banking Systems Succeed -- And Fail
by turtledove on 2 Dec 2013   1 comment, latest 10 years ago
Foreign Affairs Why Banking Systems Succeed -- And Fail The Politics Behind Financial Institutions People routinely blame politics for outcomes they don’t like, often with good reason: when the ...

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Blackstone Begins Rental Housing Empire in Spain
by turtledove on 30 Nov 2013   10 comments, latest 10 years ago
Blackstone Group (BX), builder of the biggest single-family rental home business in the U.S., is using its experience to replicate the model in Spain, where property prices have dropped ...

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WSJ Opinion: ObamaCare's Plans Are Worse
by turtledove on 29 Nov 2013   39 comments, latest 10 years ago
ObamaCare's Plans Are Worse How the Affordable Care Act raises prices and limits medical choices. Even as President Obama reluctantly granted Americans thrown off their health plans quasi-permission to ...

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Black Friday Debate: What are the US' problems and how would you solve them?
by turtledove on 29 Nov 2013   104 comments, latest 10 years ago
If you had to say what our country's biggest problems are (3-5 top problems), what would your list look like? If you got to be our benevolent dictator, how ...

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Email from a RE agent... :0)
by turtledove on 29 Jul 2013   7 comments, latest 11 years ago
What would you do with an extra $24,000/year of cash flow? Simple summary, I showed the owners how to trade a $1.1 million dollar property that would rent for ...

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Pretty big budget cut thanks to Patnet... Other ideas?
by turtledove on 17 Jul 2013   44 comments, latest 11 years ago
Several months ago, we had a thread going that went off on a tangent (what a shock) about cable vs. streaming. Prior to reading some of your posts, I ...

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McDonalds suggested budget for employees shows just how impossible it is to...
by turtledove on 16 Jul 2013   46 comments, latest 11 years ago
McDonald’ has partnered with Visa to make a website dedicated to showing its employees how to properly budget their meager peasant salaries. However, what it actually does is illustrate ...

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Stocks soar to new records on hopes for continued stimulus
by turtledove on 11 Jul 2013   Posted 11 years ago
Investors are calmed after Fed chief Ben Bernanke says stimulus programs will continue for the foreseeable future. The stock market streaked to new highs Thursday as investors remained hopeful ...

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France's triumphant 'Joan of Arc' vows to bring back franc and destroy euro
by turtledove on 1 Jul 2013   11 comments, latest 11 years ago
01 July 2013 MARINE Le Pen is spoiling for a fight. The leader of France's Front National vows to smash the existing order of Europe and force the break-up ...

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Risk of 1937 relapse as Fed gives up fight against deflation
by turtledove on 27 Jun 2013   203 comments, latest 11 years ago
The US Federal Reserve has jumped the gun. It has mishandled its exit strategy from quantitative easing, triggering a global bond rout that it did not anticipate, and is ...

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Personal question...Anyone have experience with tendon repair?
by turtledove on 18 Jun 2013   5 comments, latest 11 years ago
This is completely off topic.... and may not be an appropriate use of these boards, but I'm getting desperate. I know we have a lot of athletic people on ...

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Questions for the experienced landlords out there
by turtledove on 18 Jan 2013   6 comments, latest 11 years ago
My mother learned this week that her house was turned into a grow house by her new tenants. Here's the background: My mother has a couple of properties that ...

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White House declines funding for Death Star
by turtledove on 17 Jan 2013   3 comments, latest 11 years ago
Official White House Response to Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016. . This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For By Paul ...

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Greece and Spains Banking Systems Flash Danger
by turtledove on 3 Jan 2013   Posted 11 years ago
http://gainspainscapital.com/2 Greece and Spain’s Banking Systems Flash “Danger” January 3, 2013 While the US continues to digest the details of the US Fiscal Cliff Deal (the only important item ...

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What we can learn from the Great California Exodus (Sept. 2012)
by turtledove on 23 Dec 2012   148 comments, latest 11 years ago
I hope this hasn't already been posted. Didn't see this on the site. Thought it was interesting. http://www.manhattan-institute Executive Summary For decades after World War II, California was a ...

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Gold Rushes and Bubbles
by turtledove on 19 May 2010   40 comments, latest 13 years ago
Hi. Been a long-time lurker; first time poster. Several articles posted recently talk about how the stock market is about to do something horrific and dollars won't be worth ...
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