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Answer. All the opposite side has to do is to stop supporting a bill that would allow the biggest banks in america to rip off the people one more time. We bailed out the richest banks in america with the peoples money. The people do not want that anymore. And so this provision thats in the bill that would allow them to basically put us all at risk because they want to trade these derivatives and be protected with fdic cannot go on. And so there are a lot of other things in this bill thats unacce...

The five remaining attorneys at the now defunct Hartford law firm Rome McGuigan aren’t leaving the industry.  But they did recently decide that maintaining their own independent firm was no longer in their best interests. Instead, they’re joining other firms. 

Fitchburg and Leominster single family home sales rose 18% year-over-year in August, following a 21% climb in July year-over-year.

>> youre watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of books every weekend. well, as 2011 comes to a close, we thought wed take this opportunity to lock back at the year in publishing, look at the publishing industry as well as some of the best sellers of the past year. sarah is the news editor of publishers marketplace. start by giving us a little bit of a snapshot of publishing industry in 2011. if you had to write a paragraph or two on what the publishing industry did this year. >> guest:...

derivatives and tended to shy away from them and politicians basically didnt care about them because everybody seemed happy. i think people convince themselves that enron, world,, some of the others were world office. worldcom put their books on accounting. kozlowski spend money like there was no tomorrow. there was a certain amount of that problem is fixed the congress passed in law, but then theres this whole other world over here that was similar connected in a sense with things lik...

you just follow the comings and goings of the movers and shakers at the white house and on capitol hill. ive been talking to people who have been out of work for the longest time, and whose families are really suffering missing mortgage payments, missing credit card and order loan deadlines, missing meals. one man who was out of work for a year, is married, and father of a 5-year-old told me what it was like last christmas when the family put up a christmas tree, but had no presents to...

be the result of more generation would be less environmentally friendly. but typically it doesnt get to that. its a long settlement process where -- >> as the gentleman have a specific requirement you have to consider offsets for shutting down a plant? >> not that im aware of. >> thats one of the things we need to talk about more is when you dont approve a road improvement you should have to offset the pollution caused by the congestion rather than always we look at the emissions that ...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> and current treasury secretary tim geithner on the governments actions taken during the 2008 financial crisis. congress established the 10 member bipartisan commission last year to look into the causes of the 2008 financial collapse. >> good morning. welcome to the second day of hearings by the financial crisis inquiry commission. as the members knowing that the public know who has been watching us, we have been exploring the shado...

was a witness to all of this and i hope im remembered as the person who told the truth about this to the benefit of understanding in the state of new york and who looked at himself with the same kind of, you know, harshness as he looked at everyone else. thanks a lot. [applause] lee constantine is a former senior adviser and mentor to the former governor eliot spitzer. for more information, visit with lloydconstantine.com. in his book, "on the trail of the d.c. sniper," george mason un...