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NORM COLEMAN Supports offshore drilling, gun rights and a gay-marriage ban. Hinted at a federal appeal if he loses in Minnesota's Supreme Court.
In Colonial America--where moneylending was governed as much by moral codes as by legal ones--defaulting on your debts was considered a moral failing. Accordingly, owing as little as 40 shillings (less than the price of a fine pair of bedsheets) could get you thrown into a Dickensian debtors...
Further legislative attempts were waylaid by interest groups and states'-rights advocates, who feared corruption and disagreed over whether bankruptcies should be regulated by the Federal Government at all. The Bankruptcy Act of 1898 expanded debt protection not just for creditors but for corporations as well, but as late as...
Writer Jason Kersten first told Williams' story in Rolling Stone magazine in 2005. Now he's returned to the subject for a book, The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter. Williams took a stab at making an honest living, but eventually returned to counterfeiting and was...
The June 11 passage of the FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill, which provides the U.S. government with extensive power to regulate tobacco products, is a major step for federal regulation of cigarette manufacturers. The bill provides the Food and Drug Administration with its most expansive authority over the tobacco industry to...