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Blue Dog Pack Threatens to Bail on Health Care Over Abortion Language

Mar. 4, 2010 - House of Representatives member Bart Stupak and 10 other "Blue Dog" Democrats are upset that Stupak's provision that prohibits the use of federal money to pay for abortions is not in President Obama's health care bill language.

"We're not gonna vote for this bill with that kind of language in there," Stupak said Thursday in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Source: Fox

Man who broke the Bank of England, George Soros, 'at centre of hedge funds plot to cash in on fall of the euro'

Feb. 27, 2010 - George Soros and other members of a secretive group of Wall Street hedge fund bosses are said to be behind a plot to cash in on the decline of the euro. The euro has been weakened by Greece's debt crisis and financial insecurity in Portugal, Italy, Spain and Ireland.

But, it has also struggled because hedge funds have been placing huge bets on the currency's decline, which could make the speculators hundreds of millions of pounds.

Source:Daily Mail - UK

Debit card spending to overtake cash this year

Jan. 20, 2010 - In Europe use of debit cards was up 10 per cent last year.

It means that 77 per cent of its business was now done with debit cards, rather than credit cards, the use of which stalled over the past year.

Visa Europe predicted that debit card spending will overtake cash as a method of payment this year.

Source: Telegraph - UK