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Today in History

Today is Thursday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2013. There are 96 days left in the year. On Sept. 26, 1789, Thomas Jefferson was confirmed by the Senate to be the first United States secretary of state; John Jay, the first chief justice; Edmund Randolph, the first attorney general.

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Bank shot

It has been five years since our country came to the brink of economic collapse and Congress approved $700 billion for the Troubled Assets Relief Program to prevent the collapse of insurance giant AIG and the nation’s largest investment banks, all of which were deemed “too big to fail” by federal regulators and Congress. The […]