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Four Part Series : Real Estate Short Sales
Part 1: What Is A Short Sale? The basic answer to what is a short sale is a short sale is a property that sells for less than the balance owing on its mortgage. A short sale can be an underwater home, an apartment building or even vacant land. If there is a mortgage balance that is greater than the market value of the home, that property is a short sale. The home can also be a... Read more
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Obama Says Congress Knew About Surveillance
President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully defended revelations that the National Security Agency is collecting phone records and electronic communications, saying that Congress was fully briefed and the programs are limited in scope. "The programs are secret in the sense that they are classified. They are not secret, in that every member of Congress has been briefed," he said during a speech in San Jose, Calif. "These are programs that have been authored by large bipartisan... Read more
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18 Of America's Biggest Companies Using Tax Havens To Skirt $92 Billion In U.S. Taxes
Apple may be getting all the attention from lawmakers and the news media for its offshore tax practices, but a new report finds that other major companies are using similar tactics to avoid paying taxes on billions of dollars in profits. At least 18 companies, including Nike, Microsoft and Apple, are stashing profits in offshore tax havens likely in a bid to avoid paying taxes, according to a new report from the Citizens for Tax Justice,... Read more
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The debt we owe our servicemen and women
THERE WAS a time not long ago in our history — 70 years or so — when the most dread event in an American home was likely to be the arrival of a telegram. That was the way the military notified families that they had lost someone in the war. In those years, 1941-45, hundreds of thousands of people received them — spouses, mothers, fathers. It was not a common experience, but it was a... Read more
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President Obama Reacts To Tornado Disaster
President Barack Obama spoke Tuesday on the damage from a massive tornado that ripped through the town of Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday. "In an instant, neighborhoods were destroyed, dozens of people lost their live," Obama said. "In some cases there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed, but you will not travel that path alone. Your country will travel with you," Obama continued. "We are a nation that stands with our fellow citizens as long as... Read more
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Oklahoma Senators Repeatedly Opposed Disaster Relief Funds
As frantic rescue missions continued Monday in Oklahoma following the catastrophic tornadoes that ripped through the state, it appeared increasingly likely that residents who lost homes and businesses would turn to the federal government for emergency disaster aid. That could put the state's two Republican senators in an awkward position. Sens. Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, both Republicans, are fiscal hawks who have repeatedly voted against funding disaster aid for other parts of the country. They... Read more
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