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Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of living in the U.S. probably fell in October by the most in almost sixty years, while manufacturing and homebuilding sank deeper into a recession http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTxtStJrKGr0&refer=home

Rangel also has proposed making executives at private- equity firms and other partnerships pay ordinary income-tax rates instead of capital-gains rates on the incentive fees they charge their investors, known as ``carried interest.'' The top ordinary income-tax rate is currently 35 percent...

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Let the disappointment begin By Muhammad Cohen HONG KONG - For the millions around the world who supported the candidacy of United States president-elect Barack Obama, let the disappointment begin. Rhetoric fades and symbolism pales in the harsh light of familiarity. But the biggest culprit...

Some owners deserting factories in China http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-factory3-2008nov03,0,360088.story

Cutting-edge care can give overseas facilities an edge Doctors in some foreign countries may be more adept at some techniques that Americans want. http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-medsidebar2-2008nov02,0,50808.story...

An unpaid claims backlog of up to nine months is leading some physicians to reject elderly patients and jeopardizing the solvency of others. Some are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-medicare8-2008nov08,0,2199706.story

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. are considering a program that may offer about $500 billion in guarantees for troubled mortgages to stem record foreclosures, people familiar with the matter said...

WASHINGTON – The government sent out more than $1 billion in fraudulent refunds last year and offered this explanation Thursday for the bad checks in the mail: The Internal Revenue Service has too few resources to pursue every tax fraud case...

``The partying crept in,'' says Klaus Schwab, the 70-year- old WEF founder and executive chairman. ``We let it get out of control, and attention was taken away from the speed and complexity of how the world's challenges built up.''...

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Cash-happy Barack Obama is ramping up his advertising crusade by placing the first-ever presidential campaign ads in online video games. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JJ18Dj02.html

AUSTRALIA has become the first Western nation to attempt censoring the internet. http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/15/australians-censor-internet

The costs for banks to borrow money from each other remain at highly elevated levels in spite of the global government action taken to cure the paralysis at the heart of the financial system. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/87796c6e-9a19-11dd-960e-000077b07658.html

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Orwellian U.K. Angers People With Tree Cameras, Snooping Kids http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a42059fKpkSM&refer=exclusive

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