Hope and Hype: Conservatives, the CRA, and the Crash

Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:38 PM EDT

I don't know who originally developed the idea that there was a causal relationship between the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (and the Clinton update in 1995) and the current recession.

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The Slippery Slope of Health Care - An Employer's View

Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:23 PM EST

I am the owner of a small business involved with IT services and have provided my employees health insurance coverage for over twenty years.

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