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BusinessWeek April 14, 2011 Dougherty & Schmidt	Time's Nearly Up for Elizabeth Warren Obama is looking for other candidates to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by the Harvard law professor
BusinessWeek April 14, 2011	Warren's Calendar Hello, she must be going. In February Elizabeth Warren spent more time meeting with reporters, like-minded liberal groups, and community bankers than she did wooing the senators and Wall Streeters who stand in the way of her nomination.
BusinessWeek April 14, 2011 Christopher Palmeri	Costa Mesa, Calif: A Flash Point for City Belt-Tightening The Orange County city faces a backlash after its council voted to lay off 45 percent of the workforce to ease burgeoning pension costs
BusinessWeek April 14, 2011 Mark Drajem	The Benefits of a U.S.-Colombia Free-Trade Deal A trade pact could boost U.S. exports by $1.1 billion, with companies such as GE, Wal-Mart, and Citigroup as big beneficiaries
BusinessWeek April 14, 2011 David J. Lynch	To Grow, a Country Must First Shrink? The idea of cutting government spending to spark a recovery lies at the heart of Paul Ryan's budget proposal. Here's how the evidence stacks up in other countries
The Motley Fool April 14, 2011 Travis Hoium	California Makes a Splash in Solar California is taking concrete steps to become solar's next big demand source.
BusinessWeek April 13, 2011 Peter Coy	Washington Plays Chicken With the Debt Forcing a U.S. default is no small matter, yet many Americans say they want just that. It's time for cooler heads on Capitol Hill to step up and lead
BusinessWeek April 13, 2011 Charlie Rose	Charlie Rose Talks to Paul Ryan Congressman Ryan (R-Wis.) gives his immediate reaction to President Obama's Apr. 13 speech on U.S. debt -- and defends his own budget plan
National Defense May 2011 Grace V. Jean	Firms Pushing Commercial Technologies to Lure Defense Business In an effort to attract defense customers, companies are trying to adapt commercial products to the Pentagon's needs.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2011 Morgan Housel	What You Need to Know About the President's Plan to Save $4 Trillion President Barack Obama laid out a plan to slash $4 trillion from the deficit between now and 2023. Here's roughly how it'll get done.
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