Credit unions remake themselves in image of payday lenders

Credit unions remake themselves in image of payday lenders

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"… s. At Advance America, the nation’s biggest payday lender, a borrower in Texas pays $40.91 to borrow $200 for two weeks – a 533 percent annual interest …"

Fights over tribal payday lenders show challenges of financial reform

By Michael Hudson and David Heath

High-interest payday lenders are teaming up with Native Americans to shield their online businesses from lawsuits and consumer-lending regul

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"… d that borrowers are actually paying for Internet access with a rebate. In Texas, payday lenders get around state interest-rate limits by calling themselve …"

Financial reform this week: House panel to question Fed about future loan disclosures

By Julie Vorman

Financial reform this week: House panel to question Fed about future loan disclosures

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"… l bank will continue to disclose its transactions with banks going forward.Texas Republican Ron Paul, chairman of a House Financial Services subcommittee a …"

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Revolving door between SEC, law firms spins at dizzying speed

More than 200 ex-SEC lawyers went back to agency on behalf of clients

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"… was so insistent on representing Stanford, he replied, ‘Every lawyer in Texas and beyond is going to get rich over this case. Okay? And I hated being on …"

Koch's web of influence

By John Aloysius Farrell

The Koch Industries web of influence

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"… trochemical company with refineries in North Pole, Alaska; Corpus Christi, Texas; Rosemount, Minn., and Rotterdam in the Netherlands; an array of chemical …"

"… nd Camas, Wash. It has an Invista plant that uses formaldehyde in LaPorte, Texas. Its Flint Hills refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, uses hydrofluoric acid …"

"… ormaldehyde in LaPorte, Texas. Its Flint Hills refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, uses hydrofluoric acid in refining gasoline.  Mandatory use of safer …"

FactWatch: Ron Paul flubs his facts

By FactCheck.Org

FactCheck.org takes a look at some whoppers from GOP candidate Ron Paul

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"… dent for the third time. …"

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Climate facts — and fancy

By Chris Hamby

Truth and fiction, from God’s role to the culpability of cows

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"… going to tax cattle … because that’s what they’re proposing,” said Texas Republican Pete Sessions.Facts: The government is proposing no levies pegg …"

"… ans questioned the science behind global warming.  Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican said, “Man-made CO2 [carbon dioxide] does not contribute to c …"

IMPACT: In Philadelphia, plea for safer alternative at refinery

By Jim Morris

IMPACT: No harm from clouds of toxic acid, refiner says — to skepticism

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"… een reported this year at the Marathon Oil refineries in Canton, Ohio, and Texas City, Texas.Much of the discussion Thursday centered on the viability of s …"

"… this year at the Marathon Oil refineries in Canton, Ohio, and Texas City, Texas.Much of the discussion Thursday centered on the viability of solid acid ca …"

Four years after oil company's criminal conviction for pollution, still no sentencing

By Jim Morris

Four years after oil company's criminal conviction for air pollution, still no sentencing

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"… ean Air Act, having found that the company’s refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, afflicted a nearby community with toxic air pollution.For nearly a decade …"

"… xposure.”The motion notes that Dorothy Daywood, an investigator with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, fell ill while investigating a Hillcr …"

The politics of energy: Oil and gas

By Kevin Bogardus

WASHINGTON, December 15, 2003 — The sweeping energy bill now pending in Congress offers a geyser of new tax breaks and other government good

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"… ajority Leader and one of the most powerful people in Washington.DeLay’s Texas district is home to the country’s largest maker of MTBE, Lyondell Chemic …"

"… l Chemical Corp. Two other major MTBE manufacturers, Huntsman Chemical and Texas Petrochemicals, are based in or near DeLay’s district in Houston.In addi …"

"… Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana and Representative Joe Barton of Texas, slipped a provision into the energy bill exempting MTBE manufacturers suc …"

"… , oil, and gas companies.According to former Representative Jim Chapman, D-Texas, himself a partner at Bracewell & Patterson, Krenik is part of a “po …"

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