The Fed's Not-So-Funny Comedy Routine
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The Fed's proposals to halt deceptive home lending could turn the Congress loose.
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The comedy sketch âInappropriate Yoga Guyâ raises issues about the wrong moves to make in yoga class.
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By Donald Munro, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 8--"The TV Set" is sort of funny and sort of obvious. In that regard, I'm not sure it's all that different from the dim-bulb TV shows that it purports to satirize.
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David Mamet's new play,  "November," might concern an American president, but it isn't  much in the way of decorousness. Indeed, in this comedy by the  author of such plays as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "American  Buffalo," there's more profane language on display in the Oval  Office than during the entirety of the Nixon administration.
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Steps by Congress and the Fed will ease the problem, but not cure it, experts say.
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The Federal Reserve is set to change home-loan lending practices that are blamed for pushing the nation into a housing downturn, but the effort is expected to fall short of far more stringent efforts by Congress.
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The Federal Reserve's direction was once fairly predictable; now the experts differ.
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The Fed is tightening, but long-term rates aren't keeping up. Some worry that economic growth will slow.
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The nation's central bank gave a laundry list of proposals to prevent future unsavory lending practices.
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Politicians beware: Parody is returning. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday
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The inverted yield curve has taken the fun out of banking.
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Investors still appeared skittish ahead of the Federal Reserveâs interest rate decision.
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Turn that frown upside down, investors.
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âVince Vaughnâs Wild West Comedy Showâ imagines itself a contemporary equivalent of rootinâ- tootinâ traveling entertainments like Buffalo Billâs Wild West Show. Thatâs a tall comparison to draw.
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During the 18 1/2 years Alan Greenspan was chairman of the Federal Reserve, he scrupulously avoided forecasting recessions. Now it seems he can't stop using the R word, and that has created headaches for his successor, Ben Bernanke.
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The Fed can do many things, but it canât control the speculative cycle among home buyers.
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Laugh your way to financial savviness with Bart, Homer, and Marge.