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The European budget debate stepped up a notch today as Italy, Spain Warned on Budget . After Italy rebuffed warnings about its budget, euro-area finance ministers late Friday agreed to give the country additional opportunities to show it can make savings and bolster revenue.
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SongFacts comments on Stuck In The Middle With You by Stealers Wheel. Also known simply as "Stuck In The Middle", this Stealers Wheel classic was co-written by the group’s guitarist Gerry Rafferty and keyboard player Joe Egan. In his obituary of Rafferty for the January 5, 2011 issue of the Daily Telegraph , Martin Chilton said of this song that it was "Written as a parody of Bob Dylan’s paranoia, it ridiculed a music industry cocktail party, with the lyrics: ‘Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.’ To Rafferty’s utter disbelief his parody, composed as little more than a joke but with a catchy pop arrangement, struck gold, selling more than a million copies.
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On September 2, 2011, the Wall Street Journal chimed in with A French Banking Primer The effects of a system that ‘encourages excessive financial leverage’. By its own account, Credit Agricole’s tangible common equity is just 2.1% of its assets—which means its €1.6 trillion balance sheet is leveraged nearly 49-to-1.
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CNBC reports Obamacare bombshell: IT official says HealthCare.gov needs payment feature Another day, another big, bad black eye for HealthCare.gov. A crucial system for making payments to insurers from people who enroll in that federal Obamacare marketplace has yet to be built, a senior government IT official admitted Tuesday.
City of Elgin General Purpose Central School District 301 Elgin Community College Townships are responsible for roads in unincorporated areas but often provide these services at a much higher cost to taxpayers than municipal or county authorities. According to the Better Government Association: “In Cook County, the 20 townships have 280 miles of roads in unincorporated areas and the average ‘cost-per-mile’ to maintain them is $80,509 … In comparison, the average cost to eight north and northwestern Chicago suburbs was $16,030 per mile ..
57,730 Washington State Obamacare Sign-Ups, 51,368 of Them for Medicaid; Obamashock Theory and Practice It is quite amazing as to what state and federal officials tout as Obamacare "success" stories. For example, in the state of Washington, of the 57,730 who have signed up, a whopping 51,368 were for "free" Medicaid services. Given that Medicaid is jointly funded by the state and federal government, this is bound to put a hole in the state budget