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The House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue package, ignoring urgent pleas from President Bush and bipartisan congressional leaders to quickly bail out the staggering financial industry.
Stocks started plummeting on Wall Street even before the 228-205 vote to reject the bill was announced on the House floor.
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JIM CONRAD’S NATURALIST NEWSLETTERWritten in Sabacché and issued from a “ciber” inTekit, Yucatán, MÉXICO
September 29, 2008
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BIRD FEAST, COURTESY OF ARMY ANTSLast Monday our rainy-season drought came to an end;suddenly the weather is exactly as it should be, mostmornings very humid and fairly cloudy, storms buildingin the afternoons, a brief electrical storm around 4PM, then drizzle [...]
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Bank stocks took another beating Monday as the financial markets continued to try and determine what exactly the federal government’s proposed $700 billion bailout will mean.
