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The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Smith & Bleeker	Who's More to Blame: Congress or the SEC? March Stock Madness -- Second Round: Let's bullet-point some of the failures of both Congress and the SEC to determine which is more to blame for the current crisis.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Beyers & Lomax	Who's More to Blame: Bernie Madoff or the Media? March Stock Madness -- Second Round: Let's call this one the battle of the scapegoats. Who's the bigger one? Bernie Madoff or Jim Cramer?
AFP eWire March 23, 2009 David Hughes	eWire Reader Response: One Way Obama's Tech Strategist Missed the Mark President Barack Obama's chief technology strategist, Thomas Gensemer, dropped a bomb on nonprofit marketers and fundraisers in February with this: "Charity email newsletters are a waste of time"
Bank Systems & Technology March 20, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Proposed New Financial Authority Would Oversee Troubled Holding Companies The President's plan for a new financial agency would give that body authority to temporarily take over floundering bank holding companies in a manner similar to the FDIC's procedures for commercial banks.
ifeminists March 23, 2009 Carey Roberts	Obama Women's Council Tells its First Lie The Maidens of Mendacity are at it again, only this time they're speaking from the bully pulpit that President Obama himself established.
Registered Rep. March 23, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	Reverse Split? Who Cares? AIG Is the Government's New Whipping Post and TARP Bank Execs Too; Lehman's Ebay Blockbusters Vikram Pandit is making moves. They may not mean much, but he's making them nonetheless. Citigroup says it's considering a reverse split of its own stock -- a move the New York Times describes as "the market equivalent of giving investors a $10 bill in exchange for two fives."
The Motley Fool March 23, 2009 Morgan Housel	Pros and Cons of the New Bank Plan After a long wait, the details of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's new plan to rid banks of toxic assets actually aren't half bad. Read on for the details.
Registered Rep. March 20, 2009 David A. Geracioti	Populism Run Amok I guess it wins votes: Exploiting the outrage a populace who loves to hate failed Wall Street fat cats. But the vicious moralizing is revealing.
Bank Systems & Technology March 17, 2009 Katherine Burger	U.S. Treasury Adopts Open Source Strategy to Drive Electronic Tax Payments The Department of the Treasury's Financial Management Service is publishing the full specification for a free, real-time Web services interface for its Electronic Federal Tax Payment System.
Home Theater March 20, 2009	More Stations to Make Early DTV Transition The DTV transition scenario continued to develop this week when the Federal Communications Commission announced that 158 more stations plan to complete their switch from analog to digital broadcasting before June 12's final drop-dead deadline.
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