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IRS Stonewalling Makes the Case For a Special Prosecutor

From Chicago Tribune. “If you refuse to answer, you will leave us no choice but to ask for a special counsel or the appointment of a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this. I hope that’s not the approach of the IRS going forward, because there will be hell to pay.” — U.S. [...]

3 Things to Fear More Than the Fed

From Yahoo! Finance. Investors can never escape all fear and threat of loss. But as a start, it helps to know what’s worth being afraid of. In this market moment – with indexes clicking to new highs like an Alpine funicular along a steep slope of economic unease – too many are too afraid of [...]

Phone Firms Sell Data on Customers

From Wall Street Journal. Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers’ locations, travels and Web-browsing habits. The information provides a powerful tool for marketers but raises new privacy concerns. Even as Americans browsing the Internet grow more accustomed to having every move tracked, combining that [...]

WordPress vs. Joomla: Which Is The Best System For Your Business

From Small Biz Technology. Planning on creating a site for your business? Considering the up-front cost of hiring developers to make a site for you, content management system (CMS) platforms have risen to the rescue to fill the gap. Two of the most well-known free CMS products available are WordPress and Joomla. Both of them [...]

Sharp Shoppers Scuttle Obamacare

From Washington Times. The political travails of the Affordable Care Act — aka Obamacare — continue, as witnessed by the furor surrounding Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius‘ attempts to solicit funds to pay for its implementation. Politics do garner the bulk of the media attention, and the public may think that partisan battles [...]

Fed Officials Dampen Talk of Imminent Bond Buying Cutback

From Reuters. Two senior Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday played down the chances that the central bank would signal a readiness to reduce its bond buying at its meeting next month, dampening speculation the Fed’s ultra-easy monetary policy might end soon. New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley and St. Louis Fed chief James [...]