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Reform reading: Fed reveals details about $3 trillion in emergency loans

By Julie Vorman

A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law....

About this project: Smoke Screen II

By Ricardo Sandoval Palos

About this project

Excerpts from this story referencing "United States":

"… achProject Director: Ricardo Sandoval PalosReporting Team: Traver Riggins (United States), Inga Springe (Latvia and United States), Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab (Me …"

"… osReporting Team: Traver Riggins (United States), Inga Springe (Latvia and United States), Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab (Mexico), Roman Anin (Russia), Duncan Campbe …"

Mexican tobacco growers: Economically shunned by industry, still used as lobbyists

By Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

Big Tobacco cultivates more people, less land, in Mexico

Excerpts from this story referencing "United States":

"… acco ads and limit smoking.As the global fight over smokers moves from the United States and other countries where tobacco consumption is on the decline, Big Tobac …"

"… to Perez’s body; he was getting ready for a long summer and fall in the United States, in North Carolina and Kentucky. His bet was that the vitamin-enriched ser …"

"… st-worker visas – most of them assigned to work on tobacco fields in the United States.Outside his makeshift office, a group of men await word from Serrano on th …"

"… group of men await word from Serrano on their applications for work in the United States. As they wait, they talk of another bad growing season for Mexico’s own …"

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ANALYSIS: The 'clear obscurity' of the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

Health insurance industry follows E.B. White's advice to be clearly obscure

Excerpts from this story referencing "United States":

"… n 1999, health administration costs totaled at least $294.3 billion in the United States, or $1,059 per capita, as compared with $307 per capita in Canada. After e …"

"… administration accounted for 31 percent of health care expenditures in the United States and 16.7 percent of health care expenditures in Canada.I guess we actually …"

ANALYSIS: No silver lining in Gold Circle junkets for health insurance salesmen

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Insurers fight rules to limit admin costs while spending lavishly on junkets for salesmen

NOAA moves to police seas

By Traver Riggins

As part of their continuing effort to take a lead in managing global fisheries, officials with the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospher
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NOAA nixes listing of Atlantic bluefin as endangered

By Traver Riggins

Assessment verdict pulls critique from conservationists and industry groups

Human trafficking allegations test diplomatic immunity

By Traver Riggins

Allegations of human trafficking against Qatar diplomat highlight immunity issue

Excerpts from this story referencing "United States":

"… women claim in a civil lawsuit that a high-ranking Qatari diplomat in the United States, and his family, forced them to work around the clock for little pay while …"

"… t Essa Mohamed Al Mannai, Qatar’s second-highest ranking diplomat in the United States. The case has reopened debate over a problem that has vexed U.S. governmen …"

"… s at the U.S. Embassy, made travel arrangements, and sent the women to the United States.”In their contracts, the women were promised $7.25 an hour for 40-hour w …"

"… racts, the women were promised $7.25 an hour for 40-hour work weeks in the United States. They ended up making as little as 55-cents an hour for being on duty “a …"

ANALYSIS: Pakistani Intelligence Links to Islamic Extremists Run Deep

By Malik Siraj Akbar

What the bin Laden raid means for U.S.-Pakistan intelligence relations

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"… eda and the Taliban.In this context it is not surprising that although the United States and Pakistan have worked collectively as coalition partners in the war aga …"

Koch's web of influence

By John Aloysius Farrell

The Koch Industries web of influence

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"… urrently buy and market about one-tenth of all the ethanol produced in the United States.The Kochs seem to have recognized that their actions might seem hypocritic …"

"… m in commercial affairs. Koch was a pioneer importer of Russian oil to the United States, including a 2002 shipment of Russian crude that Koch sold to the U.S. gov …"

"… . And though it opposes a cap-and-trade solution to global warming for the United States, Koch makes money trading emissions credits under a similar program in Eur …"

"… per plants and other sources. With 165 manufacturing facilities across the United States, Georgia-Pacific “has a significant interest in and will be significantl …"

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