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Poll: GOP caucusgoers split support four ways

By | 11.15.11 | 3:55 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

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A new poll from Bloomberg News shows likely Republican Iowa caucusgoers split four ways between Herman Cain, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).

Poll: Americans don’t want government shutdown or cuts to social programs

By | 03.09.11 | 2:47 pm

A new Bloomberg News poll indicates that nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe that legislators should reach a compromise on the federal budget in order to avert a government shutdown.

Strategic Defaulters Are Not Mortgage ‘Deadbeats’

By | 04.23.10 | 5:01 pm

Bloomberg News’ Caroline Baum has a tart piece on strategic defaults and consumer spending — invoking the theory, first put forward by HousingWire’s Paul Jackson, that underwater homeowners are purposefully defaulting on their mortgages and using the funds to buy regular goods. That would explain why consumer spending More…

Tort Reform Unlikely to Cut Health Care Costs

By | 08.19.09 | 6:00 am

Amid the obstructionists’ claims that health care reform is “socialist” or a means of speeding Grandma towards her deathbed, a large focus of the conservative position on health care reform has been that frivolous lawsuits drive up health care costs and require doctors to practice “defensive medicine” that’s costly and More…