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BANKING INDUSTRY OPPOSES BILL TO PROTECT WORKING FAMILIES FROM PREDATORY STUDENT LOANS

californiachronicle.com — Working families and their college-bound children would get the information they need to protect themselves from predatory student loans under a bill by Assembly Speaker pro Tempore Sally Lieber (D-San Jose) facing heavy banking industry opposition at 1:30 p.m. today in the Assembly Higher Education Committee.

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Student Loan Guarantor Faces Bankruptcy

reuters.com — The Education Resources Institute Inc, which calls itself the largest not-for-profit guarantor of U.S. private education loans, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying rising defaults and credit market problems have damaged liquidity.

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Open Columnist: A Call for Input

This is the third installment of what I have been calling Open Columnist - a call for reader input into the nationally syndicated newspaper column I write every week for Creators Syndicate. more »

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Weekend Watchdog

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked.

And on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air America Radio's "Seder on Sundays" program, where I'll offer the Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up.

Guest watchdog Rick Perlstein here, with a confession: I'm a politically junky of an unconventional sort. Specifically: I can't stand the Sunday political talk shows. I don't mean that, like many liberals, I watch them and shout angrily at the screen. I mean I don't watch them at all. The last episode of Meet the Press I saw was from 1966, three years before I was born. If you know that I'm a historian that sentence makes more sense. I saw it at the Museum of Broadcast Communications as part of the research for my next book, and the episode was a roundtable featuring Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, and the NAACP's Roy Wilkins. more »

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The Fed, The Enabler

alternet.org — The Federal Reserve Board has been doing a poor job in its role as regulator.

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Debt Addiction's Price

alternet.org — Market evangelists created the wreckage, but working people will suffer the most.

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Housing Crash Without Apology

tpmcafe.com — As the housing bubble bursts, being the Fed means never having to say you're sorry.

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FEMA Demands Money Back From Katrina Aid Recipients

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Bubble-Boy Bailout

tpmcafe.com — You're right to be suspicious of some rescue calls in the current mortgage crisis.

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Economic Outlook Ain't Pretty

feeds.feedburner.com — Stock market swings, weak job growth, mortgage woes—how does it all add up?

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