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Billionaire Warren Buffett still backs Obama

By Alexander Lane
March 23, 2009
"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."
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Dodd flip-flopped on whether he changed amendment on bonuses to AIG and banks

By Alexander Lane
March 23, 2009
On whether he wrote a provision that allowed AIG to dole out bonuses.
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Tens of billions in AIG bailout went to foreign companies

March 20, 2009
"Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks."
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Dodd failed to halt bailout bonuses, but he did limit future ones

By Alexander Lane
March 20, 2009
"Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the ‘stimulus’ bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money…
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Model T got better mileage than SUVs

By Angie Drobnic Holan
March 19, 2009
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
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AIG retention bonuses going to employees it plans to terminate

March 18, 2009
AIG "said they were giving $57 million (in retention payments) to people who were being terminated."
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Wyden and Snowe wanted AIG bonus money back

By Alexander Lane
March 18, 2009
"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."
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AIG does not insure the pensions of Congress

By Angie Drobnic Holan
March 18, 2009
"AIG insures the pension trust of the United States Congress!"
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Executives in Japan do not regularly commit suicide

By Angie Drobnic Holan
March 17, 2009
In Japan, executives of failing companies "say 'I'm sorry' and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide."
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Yes, but take this prediction with a grain of salt

By Alexander Lane
March 17, 2009
"Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the…
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Yes, Rep. John Boehner has never asked for earmarks

March 16, 2009
"I don't do earmarks. I've never done one. I'm not going to do one."
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Eighth graders are in ninth, but showing improvement, not falling

By Alexander Lane
March 13, 2009
"In eighth grade math, we’ve fallen to ninth place."
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