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Dallas City area residents are choosing whether or not to take an offer of 70 percent of the clean up costs of the largest carbon black spill in U.S. history. ->Read More If you think being rich and famous can get you absolutely anything in life, you may be shocked to learn that the health insurance industry plays by a different set of rules. ->Read More Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 11:56 a.m. WASHINGTON, DC (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress Tuesday he opposes tapping a $700 billion taxpayer-funded pool to help struggling U.S. automakers as he and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended their management of the bailout program, just one week after the administration abandoned the original strategy behind the rescue. ->Read More The cost of bailing out the stricken US insurer AIG has swollen to around $150bn. Under a revised package of rescue measures unveiled today, the US government is to alter its loan arrangements with the insurance giant and spend $40bn on new preference shares in the company. This will leave taxpayers with a 79.9% stake in the company, which almost went bankrupt in September in the immediate ... ->Read More Ron Baron had a bad year, it is so bad that he almost cancelled his annual shareholders' conference. But Ron Baron is still one of the best growth investor out there. If you are looking long term small cap ideas, look into his portfolio. Ron Baron owns 241 stocks with a total value of $15.4 billion. These are the details of the buys and sells for the third quarter. New Purchases: ACE, ADVS, ARG, ... ->Read More
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