Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher, hardly one to resist using a good metaphor to explain the intricacies of central banking, has upgraded his equine assessment of the economy. He’s also added some classic rock and roll the...
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Richard Fisher, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Fisher Warns Fed of Trap: `Hotel California’
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An inmate at a prison in Chino, California.
America’s Great State Pay Give-Away
Think you’re in the wrong line of work? Try becoming a state worker in California, where it’s possible to collect more than $200,000 in overtime pay in a single year or retire with a “boat check” as large as $609,000...
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Voters at a polling station in the garage of the Los Angeles County lifeguard headquarters on Nov. 6, 2012 in Los Angeles.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 2,216,903
That’s how many votes President Barack Obama received in Los Angeles County, California, in the Nov. 6 election, or 70 percent of the total vote in the nation’s most populous county. The president won more votes in Los Angeles County...
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Jeanette Coleman, left, and Kawane Harris wave to supporters as they wait to get their marriage lisence outside the Manhattan City Clerk's office in New York.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 49
That’s the percentage of Americans who favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, according to a survey from the Pew Center for the People & the Press. Forty percent said they oppose same-sex marriage, an all-time low, according to...
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Rep. Jerry Lewis walks to work with his Bichon Frise and Poodle mix, Bruin, who is named after the UCLA mascot.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 212
That’s how many fewer total years that California’s incoming 53-member House delegation has served in the chamber as compared with January 2011. The 53 California House members who will take office Jan. 3, when the 113th Congress begins, will have...
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein during day two of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A Milestone for Senator Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein has set the record of most votes won in a Senate election. The California Democrat amassed more than 7.1 million votes in winning re-election Nov. 6, according to an updated tally from California election officials. An official count will...
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Rep. Connie Mack, left, Sen. Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush during a campaign rally at Tampa International Airport on Oct. 31, 2012.
Connie Mack’s Double-Header Loss
Rep. Connie Mack of Florida, great-grandson of the famed Philadelphia Athletics owner, faced a double-header in the congressional elections this week. He lost both games. Mack lost his own bid for the U.S. Senate to Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson, and...
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Representative Cornelius "Connie" Mack and his wife, Representative Mary Bono Mack, a Republican from California, at the RNC.
Endangered List: California and N.Y. House Incumbents
California and New York enter Election Day as the two states with the highest number of endangered House incumbents, according to the latest ratings by political analyst Charlie Cook. Each state counts six incumbents most likely not to return to...
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Victoria Williams processes a mail-in ballot at the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters office in Calif., on Oct. 31, 2012.
Not All Contests on Nov. 6 Ballots Are Democrats vs. Republicans
Most of the federal elections on tomorrow’s ballots pit Democrats against Republicans. Yet there are some intraparty contests worth watching in California and Louisiana, where same-party matchups are possible under those states’ unusual election laws. In California, which adopted a...
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California state senator Gloria Negrete McLeod after a vote on pension reform at the State Capitol in Sacramento.
Bloomberg Swamps Baca w/ $2.7 Mln — Already Flooded Florida’s Webster
Written by Alison Fitzgerald New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg dished $2.7 million into a single California congressional race, buying television ads to help State Sen. Gloria Negrete McLeod unseat Democratic Congressman Joe Baca one week before the election. The influx...
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