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The middle class can't be saved unless Wall Street is tamed, writes Robert B. Reich. - Outgoing Federal Reserve chairman helped rescue his country from a second economic depression
- JPMorgan Chase has been hiring China's "princelings" in exchange for business deals with their parents -- a serious offense that's all to similar to practices here in America
- Chinese President Xi Jinping needed less than President Barack Obama from their summit this weekend, and he got more.
- Faced with a losing hand in the fight over tax rates and the fiscal cliff, Republicans are seeking to beat a cynical retreat to another manufactured crisis over the debt limit.
- Doyle McManus says it's more a steep, scary slope than a cliff; and the Democrats have the upper hand in the debate
- Marlin Steel Wire Products is one of the country's fastest-growing companies. What makes that all the more notable is it's a manufacturer. In Baltimore.
- Maryland lawmakers protest a plan by the Treasury Department and the General Services Administration to move the Financial Management Services facility in Hyattsville to West Virginia.
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- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pointed out Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's plate of bacon in front of 300 people.
- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner addressed hundreds of Baltimore's business leaders this morning in Harbor East.
- Breaking news in Baltimore Thursday morning includes plans to reopen a White Marsh Boscov's store and Victoria Justice performing at the Maryland State Fair.
- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is scheduled to address members of the Greater Baltimore Committee Thursday on the state of the economy.
- The Obama administration's practice of putting economic and military issues at the forefront of U.S.-China relations shortchanges human rights.
- Having offered refuge to the Chinese dissident, the U.S. can't simply walk away when his life may be in danger
- Suggestions for what should become of Nancy Pelosi, Charlie Rangel, Sheila Dixon and Jon Corzine.
- Because of its heavy concentration of federal employees and contractors, Maryland is more vulnerable than other states if Congress fails to increase the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by Aug. 2.
- Maryland's thoroughbred industry is pushing back on a proposal in Congress to eliminate a $126 million tax carve out for horse racing as part of the deficit reduction effort.
- Economist Peter Morici says as a short-term fix, the Treasury can print money and the Fed can sell off bonds to keep the currency supply stable
- Negotiations over how to reduce federal budget deficits have so far produced few specifics, but labor groups representing thousands of workers in Maryland are nonetheless on edge.
- Democrats can't capitulate to House GOP even as the nation's economy is put at risk by a possible default
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- Debt ceiling crisis is appropriate, if unpleasant, medicine for what ills the U.S.
