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- Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) claims he is prepared to “navigate around” the Tea Party in order to extend the payroll tax cut expiring at the end of February. [Reuters]
- How Wall Street suckers state and local governments into paying billions for bad swap deals. [Bloomberg]
- Federal Reserve officials are seriously considering a new round of quantitative easing in order to boost the economy. [CNBC]
- Bank of America may pull put of some parts of the country if its financial problems continue. [Wall Street Journal]
- More people over the age of 55 are employed than ever before, according to the Labor Department. [Washington Post]
- Following the terms of the deal reached last year, President Obama yesterday formally requested the latest increase in the debt ceiling. [Reuters]
- According to Standard & Poor’s, the creditworthiness of US corporate borrowers has plunged in the last three decades. [Financial Times]
- A group of state Attorneys General, frustrated with slow progress, is considering leaving ongoing foreclosure fraud settlement talks with the nation’s biggest banks. [Huffington Post]
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