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Ameriprise Financial not pursuing large acquisitions -CEO
ReutersBy Jed Horowitz NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters) - Ameriprise Financial Inc , the acquisitive Minneapolis-based mutual fund and wealth-management company, has no plans to pursue big deals in the immediate future, the company said Tuesday. "At this point, we...Tags: Mutual Funds, Financial Planning, Companies and Corporations, Personal Finance, Zurich Financial Services AG
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Obama seeks deal, proposes cuts to Social Security
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a renewed attempt to strike a broad deficit-...
Tags: Unemployment Benefits, AFL-CIO, U.S. Congress, John Boehner, Budgets and Budgeting
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IMF calls on U.S. to develop credible budget plan
WASHINGTON -- Global finance leaders agreed that nations must take stronger action to spur still-lagging and uneven economic growth and job creation. And they had a pointed message for the U.S.: For the sake of the rest of the world, address your longer-...
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, International Organizations, Finance, World Bank Group, Labor Markets
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Old school for old boys
While Max Baucus and Jon Tester are both Democrats, both U.S. senators and both Montana country boys, last month's hurried vote to fund nearly $1 trillion of current federal spending shows just how different these Big Sky legislators really are. Baucus,...Tags: Jon Tester, Democratic Party, The New York Times, Max Baucus, Prescription Drugs
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Bedford County man considering primary race against Shuster
staff writer, @damichelleg A Manns Choice resident is considering a run for office against U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster in the 2014 Republican primary. Art Halvorson, 57, said he has established an exploratory committee to examine a run for the seat. Halvorson said that after...Tags: Republican Party, Bill Shuster, Washington, DC, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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Where our democracy works and where it doesn't
Who says American politics is gridlocked? A tidal wave of politicians from both sides of the aisle who just a few years ago opposed same-sex marriage are now coming around to support it. Elected officials who had been against allowing undocumented...
Tags: ABC (tv network), National Rifle Association of America, Government Debt, Family, Social Issues
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IMF lowers global growth forecast, warns of risks to economic recovery
WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday lowered its forecast for global economic growth this year from projections made three months ago, and warned policymakers that they could not relax their efforts as risks to the recovery remain....
Tags: Weather Reports, International Organizations, International Monetary Fund, Weather, Labor Markets
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Payroll tax cuts? Not necessarily
All I hear these days are complaints that the federal government has raised taxes, dimishing take-home pay. That’s true: The payroll tax holiday was not extended. That holiday cut Social Security contributions and the like, amounting to a 2-...Tags: Holidays, Pat Quinn, Executive Branch, Government, Illinois Governor
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Does Obama have a good revenue plan?
Yes There is no perfect federal budget plan. It doesn't exist. Any combination of cuts and tax hikes that President Obama puts forth will find opposition on some front. This year's budget needs to address the skyrocketing debt while limiting the...Tags: Barack Obama
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The Obama budget and the appearance of reform
— Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget. Normal had...
Tags: Paul Ryan, U.S. Congress, Budgets and Budgeting, Career and Workplace, Politics
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Tri-State-area lawmakers answer questions about sequester and its impact
The massive federal budget cuts commonly referred to as the sequester will be felt nationwide and will lead to furloughs at places such as Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg, Pa., while the 167th Airlift Wing in Martinsburg, W.Va., is facing layoffs,...
Tags: National Security, John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Congress, Barbara A. Mikulski, Finance
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The Obama 2014 budget proposal and the appearance of reform
WASHINGTON - Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget. Normal had...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Career and Workplace, Politics, Media Industry, Social Security
Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Apr 5, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Apr 20, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 19, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Apr 16, 2013
|Story| Daily American
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 16, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 3, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 15, 2013
|Column| Daily American
Apr 15, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 14, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Apr 14, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
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