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Amazon offers California 7,000...............

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has proposed a hiring spree of 7,000 jobs in California if state leaders put a recently enacted online sales tax on hold for two years. The offer comes as California contends with the second-highest unemployment rate among U.S. states and broad anxiety about the national economy.Link

Failing at picking winners..........

A solar energy company that intends to file for bankruptcy received $535 million in backing from the federal government and has a cozy history with Democrats and the Obama administration, campaign finance records show.Link

Bruce Fein killed it..................

Ron Paul's federal disaster relief plan.

Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul is on his his third bid for the presidency. A distinctive and refreshing trait of the libertarian's campaigns is that the retired doctor calmly provokes politicians and voters to talk about the political givens they otherwise would prefer to leave alone. Why is the Federal Reserve so powerful and secretive? What benefit do we really get out of foreign wars? Couldn't those billions be better spent at home?.Link

Buffett betting on bank bailout?............

If you're looking for proof that Too Big to Fail is still alive, and that Washington won't leave large financial institutions to the mercies of capitalism, consider billionaire Obama fundraiser Warren Buffett's $5 billion bet on struggling Bank of America.Link

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