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IEEE Spectrum April 2011 John Voelcker	One Million Plug-in Cars by 2015? Why nobody agrees on how many plug-ins will be on U.S. roads. Since 2008, Barack Obama has consistently promoted the goal of having 1 million advanced technology vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015
BusinessWeek March 31, 2011 Roger Lowenstein	The Great American Ponzi Scheme Do we want public pensions? There are compelling reasons why we do.
BusinessWeek March 31, 2011 Tom Keene	Tom Keene Talks to Neil Barofsky The outgoing Special Inspector General for TARP anticipates new financial crises and discusses the limits of the Dodd-Frank reform law.
BusinessWeek March 31, 2011 Scott Lanman	The Spat Over a Fed Seat for Peter Diamond Nominated for a Federal Reserve Board post, the MIT professor and Nobel laureate is a pawn in a long political tussle in Congress.
BusinessWeek March 31, 2011 Stephanie Armour	A 'Bring Your Gun to Work' Movement Builds Partly as a result of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, gun rights activists are proposing laws that permit more workplace firearms.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2011 Morgan Housel	Geithner: Should He Stay or Should He Go? Geithner hasn't commented on whether he'd be willing to serve a second term as Treasury secretary. The question is whether he deserves one or not.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2011 Morgan Housel	Deceptive Statistic of the Day: Wall Street Journal Edition The assault of large numbers. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal yesterday outlining why he won't be voting to increase the federal debt ceiling.
InternetNews March 30, 2011	Google Apologies for Buzz, Settles with FCC Google reaches settlement with the FCC over Buzz and its privacy practices.
The Motley Fool March 29, 2011 Brian Orelli	Much More Than a Generic Lawsuit The Supreme Court will decide generic-drug makers fate.
AFP eWire March 29, 2011	Policy Update: AFP Urges Senate Committee to Support Tax Incentives for Giving The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing titled "How Do Complexity, Uncertainty and Other Factors Impact Responses to Tax Incentives" to determine whether tax incentives actually work, or whether they reward behavior that would have occurred anyway.
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