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  House Rejects Senate Measure on Bush Tax Cuts

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  August 2, 2012

  The House took the opposite stance to the Bush tax cuts as the Senate and passed legislation on Wednesday that would extend all of the expiring cuts for everyone for one year. Separately on Thursday, Senate Finance panel passed a bipartisan bill to extend other tax cuts for families and...

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  Senate Votes to Keep Bush Tax Cuts for Middle Class

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 26, 2012

  The Senate passed a bill late Wednesday to extend the Bush tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 a year—or 98% of Americans.

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  U.S. Poverty Nearing Highest Rate Since 1965

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  July 24, 2012

  Ahead of Census figures, analysts estimate that one in six people were poor in 2011, and they don't see the numbers improving soon.

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  New Hire Roundup: Benartzi to Serve as Achaean Academic Advisor

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 24, 2012

  This week in new hires, Achaean Financial announced that Professor Shlomo Benartzi would become its first academic advisor, and Michele Wein Layne was named regional director of the SEC’s Los Angeles regional office.

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  Slowing Economy to Hit China Jobs; South Korean Banks Investigated for Rate-Rigging

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 18, 2012

  The global economic slowdown is taking its toll in Asia, which has also proved it is not immune to financial scandal.

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  Obama Proposes to Extend Bush Tax Cuts Excluding Top Earners

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 9, 2012

  Plan would be for one year and exclude those families earning more than $250,000; GOP opposed, wants to extend cuts for all.

• Zephyr Associates’ Will Clemens on ‘Bushwhacking’ and Delivering More for Less

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  June 26, 2012

  Market volatility and political uncertainty—how many times have we heard that answer to the question, “What are advisors’ biggest concerns?”

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  Senate Majority Leader Offers Plan to Stop Student Loan Rate Hike

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  June 8, 2012

  In a speech on Thursday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, President Obama said Republicans were stalling in passing a law to stop such a hike. Republicans claim the administration has ignored their proposals.

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  LPL-Affiliated Retirement Group Hires 5 Consultants

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  June 1, 2012

  The advisors join the $7 billion advisory firm in locations across the West and Midwest.

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  CBO Says Fiscal Cliff Looms, but Decisions Not Likely Till Precipice Appears

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 24, 2012

  The CBO makes the point that if Congress cannot find some way to arrest policies that are already set in motion before the new year, the U.S. will lapse back into a recession in 2013.