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Consider This – Selling Your Home Quickly May Save You Money
February 10th, 2011
davidguide As we reach the end of another year, I find myself musing over the latest housing market trends and wondering just how hard it might be to sell my house next year. We have had more than a decade of non-stop house price growth, but now the housing market has reached a point of instability [...]
Obama’s debt relief plan could spare Florida up to $500M, White House says, but could hurt later
February 9th, 2011
davidguide Florida would not have to pay back between $400 million and $500 million in jobless insurance debt owed to the federal government over the next two years under a plan President Obama will outline next week, the White House said. Obama has to sell the moratorium to Congress as part of his 2012 budget proposal [...]
Historic settlement with black, Native American farmers signed into law
December 9th, 2010
davidguide Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Legislation settling decades-old discrimination cases against the government from black and Native American farmers was enacted late Wednesday. President Barack Obama signed into law H.R. 4783, which provides $1.15 billion in compensation for plaintiffs in the Pigford II case, and $3.4 billion in [...]
Arab Economies Face Import Onslaught as Turkey Pursues Free Trade
December 9th, 2010
davidguide The Media Line Staff Ankara, Turkey (TML) – Turkey and its Arab neighbors are due to enter into a free-trade area (FTA) agreement early next year, a pact both sides see as politically beneficial. But closer trade ties have already begun causing economic disruptions in Syria and could threaten the other Arab partners as Turkey’s [...]
Japan to levy tax to counter global warming in ’11
December 6th, 2010
davidguide Japan, the world’s third largest economy, will introduce an environmental tax from next year to boost revenue and promote energy conservation steps to counter global warming. The Government Tax Commission has decided to introduce an environmental tax to counter global warming in fiscal 2011, Kyodo news agency reported, quoting informed sources as saying. View full [...]
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