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- The Federal Reserve “made a rare promise” yesterday “to hold short-term interest rates near zero through at least the middle of 2013, in a sign that it has all but written off the chances of an expansion strong enough to drive up wages and prices.” [New York Times]
- Three members of the Federal Reserve board dissented from yesterday’s decision, the most dissents in 18 years. [Bloomberg]
- “Nearly three years after the government infused the banking industry with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, many large banks continue to struggle with the fallout of the housing bust.” [Washington Post]
- The Obama administration will announce plans today “to seek investors’ ideas for turning thousands of foreclosed properties owned by government-backed entities into rental homes.” [Wall Street Journal]
- A CNN poll released yesterday shows that the public “doesn’t want the super committee [created by the debt ceiling deal] to propose major changes to Social Security and Medicare or increase taxes on middle class and lower-income Americans.” [CNN]
- The National Credit Union Administration yesterday sued mega-bank Goldman Sachs, “alleging violations of federal and state laws tied to the sale of mortgage-backed securities.” [CNN Money]
- House Republicans on the Budget Committee are already saying that the job creation proposals floated last week by President Obama, like extending a payroll tax cut that is currently in place, are too expensive. [The Hill]
- Wisconsin Republicans yesterday won four of six state Senate recall elections, retaining control of the chamber by one seat. [Wall Street Journal]
- The credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s “is pushing back against a U.S. government proposal that would require credit raters to disclose ‘significant errors’ in how they calculate their ratings.” [Reuters]
- According to a new report from Moody’s Analytics, “record borrowing by college students who are graduating without jobs may lead to the next financial crisis.” [Huffington Post]
- AT&T;’s potential acquisition of T-Mobile “is facing a challenge in California where regulators have raised questions about the deal’s effect on consumers and corporate customers.” [Bloomberg]
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