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Coming for Veteran’s Disability Benefits

…Preparing the Attack Two years after publication of Gade and Huang’s Wounding Warriors, Russell Vought, then president of the conservative think tank Center for Renewing America (CRA), contributed to a report…

Subprime and the crisis

Financeaddict comments on a St. Louis Fed study: Their research asks whether there’s evidence that lenders changed their behavior to meet CRA, Fannie or Freddie-mandated goals by: making more subprime…

Fannie and Freddie and William Black

(CRA), Congress’ rejection of an administration proposal to give OFHEO greater supervisory powers, specifically, the power to place Fannie and Freddie in receivership, the ability of Fannie and Freddie to…

The contrarian addiction

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…