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Housing Regulator Wants to Throw the Drowning Poor an Anchor; Mish Alternative Proposal Now that home prices have recovered from the Great Financial Crisis to the point of being way overvalued again in many areas, a Housing Regulator Targets More Support for Poor Borrowers . The regulator for U.S
With that hike, Chicago Now has America’s Highest Sales Tax . Chicago has long had a steep sales tax, but a vote by Cook County commissioners Wednesday night made the city’s rate the highest of any major city in the nation
Tweet Recently Doug Keenan has again taken up the cudgels against the Met Office with backing from the usual suspects and indeed, the Met Office has taken a decision not to engage further.  While the Met Office thinks  that some things Keenan says are interesting and very brave, with the greatest respect and they will hear what he says and bear it in mind, well, they choose not to devote further time to dealing with him.  A feature of these attacks are Keenan’s claims that the best time series analysts tend to be in finance ( see comment ).
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Since the first coup in 2006 aimed at his regime, Shinawatra has been represented by US corporate-financier elites via their lobbying firms including, Kenneth Adelman of the Edelman PR firm ( Freedom House , International Crisis Group , PNAC ), James Baker of Baker Botts ( CFR , Carlyle Group), Robert Blackwill ( CFR ) of Barbour Griffith & Rogers (BGR) , Kobre & Kim , Bell Pottinger ( and here ) and currently Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Partners ( Chatham House ). And from 2006 until now, both Western political and media circles have continuously provided favorable spin for Shinawatra and his political proxies. This includes the use of the above mentioned Freedom House and its umbrella organization, the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to fund and back nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and academics in Thailand to provide rhetorical and operation support for Shinawatra and serve as a constant source of sociopolitical subversion aimed at Thailand’s ruling establishment
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