Archive for January 12, 2012
January 12, 2012 | 
Author A big business group said Thursday it won’t file a lawsuit challenging the new powers and leadership of the consumer bureau — for now.
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“It’s time to take a stand against @ExpressScripts. Tell them people want a choice by tweeting hashtag #ILoveWalgreens.”
According to Mitt Romney, the nation’s growing focus on income inequality is all about envy.
Don’t toss out that full carton of orange juice sitting in your refrigerator just yet.
Despite tightening sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, experts say the country’s crude should still flow — but perhaps at a deep discount.
Republicans attacking Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital got a stern rebuke Thursday from the Chamber of Commerce.
The class of 2011 scored higher-paying jobs than graduates the year before, with engineering and computer science majors taking home the fattest paychecks.
In yet another push to define the Democrats as defenders of the middle class, a top economic adviser for the Obama administration outlined Thursday the massive growth in income inequality and its ramifications on the nation. Alan Krueger, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, said that inequality is now causing an unhealthy division in opportunities and is posing a threat to economic growth. Economic mobility has decreased and the middle class has shrunk.
Several times each year, the nation faces a widespread, food borne illness crisis. But there’s an easy, cheap technological solution that could stop scares and outbreaks in their tracks.
Good news for homeowners: Natural gas prices are the lowest they’ve been in years. And they’re expected to fall even further, thanks to growing production and slack demand.
