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September 12, 2016

Trump Alleges Yellen Conspiring With Obama to Keep Interest Rates Low

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Donald Trump hit out at Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, questioning her independence from President Obama and the wisdom of low interest rates. “She’s keeping them [interest rates] artificially low to get Obama retired,” he said on CNBC. “It’s a very serious problem.” “I think she’s very political, and to a certain extent I think she should be ashamed of herself,” he added. “Any increase at all will be a very, very small increase because they want to keep the market up so Obama goes…

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Private Utility Profiteers Outperformed By Publicly-Owned Counterparts

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A new report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that municipal utility providers offer better results than their corporate competitors. Power plants owned and operated by city governments experienced on average one outage in 2015, usually lasting up to two hours, according to the study. Those performance indicators outpaced other utility types in 2015. Investor-owned energy producers averaged more than one outage a year. They typically lasted beyond three hours. Cooperatively owned utilities fared the worst, averaging more than two outages a year that…

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