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Rep. Frank Eyes Web Gambling Ban Repeal Wednesday March 14, 6:49 pm ET By Matthew Perrone, AP Business Writer House Finance Chair Frank Considering Proposal to Repeal Online Gambling Ban in U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chair of the House Financial Services Committee is considering...

New Century Subpoenaed, Faces Delisting Tuesday March 13, 9:44 pm ET By Alex Veiga, AP Business Writer New Century Says Feds Seek Documents, NYSE Plans to Delist Shares LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Subprime mortgage lender New Century Financial Corp., its financial footing crumbling, was all...

moneybox Subprime Suspects Wall Street firms that should have known better get slammed by the housing collapse By Daniel Gross Monday, March 12, 2007 Who's to blame for the slow-motion disaster of the subprime lending industry? Today's excellent front-page Wall Street Journal article...

Home Stretch continued: The shakeout in the subprime area is the latest of the mortgage industry's periodic purges of dubious practices and weak lenders. In the mid- to late-1980s, savings-and-loan institutions moved into risky lending, sometimes to cover losses after interest rates...

HOME STRETCH At a Mortgage Lender, Rapid Rise, Faster Fall Wall Street Fueled Growth at New Century; A Party-Hard Culture By JAMES R. HAGERTY, RUTH SIMON, MICHAEL CORKERY and GREGORY ZUCKERMAN March 12, 2007 Ruthie Hillery was struggling to make the $952 monthly mortgage payment for her...

Subprime Fallout May Not Infect Broader Market By MARK WHITEHOUSE and MIKE SPECTOR March 12, 2007; Page A2 NEW YORK -- As more financially stretched homeowners renege on their debts, and mortgage lenders go under by the dozen, economists are surprisingly sanguine about the broader economy's...

explainer How Do You Cheat at NASCAR? Auto racing's dirty tricks By Christopher Beam Posted Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007, at 6:33 PM ET With the Daytona 500 less than a week away, four crew chiefs were suspended yesterday after inspectors discovered modifications to their cars that...

chatterbox A Short History of Health Care Jonathan Cohn shows how we got here By Timothy Noah Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007, at 6:52 PM ET Any successful attempt to reform health care in the United States must accommodate two realities. Reality 1: The current system is increasingly...

A too well-written and pertinent an article not to post for easier reading, IMO (with full credits, etc.): jurisprudence Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems? How the Bell lobby helped midwife YouTube By Tim Wu Posted Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006, at 4:28 PM ET When Google bought...

In addition to the above poster's pointers, speed through these: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars/guide-to-new-car-buying/financing/pros-and-cons-of-leasing-2-07/overview/0702_pros-and-cons-of-leasing_ov.htm?resultPageIndex=1&resultIndex=2&searchTerm=leasing...

The post stands on it's own; it's not an answer to another post.

Countrywide CHMN & CEO Bailing Out With an In$ider $hares $tring-$elloff?

Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence? by Lorne Gunter, National Post Monday, March 12, 2007 Mars's ice caps are melting, and Jupiter is developing a second giant red spot, an enormous hurricane-like storm. The existing Great Red Spot is 300 years old and twice the size of Earth. The new...

As stated and implied throughout the thread, a decent computer, especially at this price, regardless of intended use, is a COMMODITY. Get over it.

Obviously, Ann Coulter loves to keep dishing it out: Coulter Book Coming in October Monday March 12, 2:18 pm ET By Hillel Italie, AP National Writer Publisher to Continue With Plans for New Book by Controversial Pundit Anne Coulter NEW YORK (AP) -- While conservative pundit Ann...

Not sure what you mean by "% of people picking that team", but the following selection committee working-thru-the-maze guide ought to enthrall (if not entangle) any avid bracketologist (or proctologist). Wade through this three-phase if not perfect but the best evolved effort over time...

So, for how much did chuck $ell you his photo? Would that be from an Arkansas or West Virginia D.L.??

That's right! The day investors deserted Cramer and the Boob Channels to storm EliteTrader.com for Answers!!