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When it comes to getting a loan for your small business, it may not come down to who you know, but where you go. found that some of the nation's biggest banks have the worst performances when it comes to small-business lending.

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“Most politicians are either talking about tighter regulations for too-big-to-fail banks, or about the virtues of self-regulation and the so-called ‘free markets,’ but the real problem isn’t how to manage too-big-to-fail banks, which are inherently unmanageable.”

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At Citigroup, shareholders had their say on CEO pay -- and they yelled, "No damn way!"

Concerted action by shareholders, workers and public interest groups compelled corporate change in several other cases this spring as well.

At least three CEOs resigned. Executives truncated one shareholder meeting to 12 minutes. And across America and Europe, CEOs lamented the end of automatic approval for excessive executive compensation.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must do more to bolster demand and the Bank of England should purchase more assets or even cut its main interest rate - already at a record low - to prevent years of sluggish growth, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. 

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Unemployment Rate
Art Bailly of San Mateo, Calif. figured he had another couple months worth of unemployment insurance.

"I wasn't too happy when I found out, especially because they didn't even send me a letter notifying me I was being cut off," Bailly, 42, said in an interview. (A spokeswoman for the California Employment Development Department said letters went out to all potentially affected claimants and the department spread the word on its website and via social media.)

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Minimum Wage

Workers in BMW's auto plants in Germany make twice as much as US workers in BMW plants who make $15 an hour. Oh and by the way German workers get 35 days of vacation AND decent healthcare.

And why does Germany's Manufacturers do so well?

BLS Jobless Numbers

  • 12.5 million - unemployed,
  • 14.5%(U6) - out of work,
  • 5.1 million (41%) 6 months or longer,
  • 7.9 million "involuntary" partime workers,
  • Over 4 million for a year, (WSJ)
  • 2.0  million over 99 weeks, the 99ers!
  • 4.7 jobless for every job. EPI
  • 91,000 unemployed become 99ers every week.
~ U.S. April 2012 -Bureau Labor Statistics

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