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Yeah, we all saw the movie, The Big Short. The greed of Wall Street sets our teeth on edge. Two small facts were left out of the movie. First, without Freddie, Fannie, and the FHA, none of those questionable mortgages would have been made by the banks to begin with. Second, beginning with Bill Clinton, Read the full article…

These are excerpts from an article by Austin Berg of the Illinois Policy Institute. Illinois’ second-largest college was revealed on Oct. 2(2014) to have hidden more than $95 million in spending since 2009, according to data from American Transparency’s openthebooks.com. The waste therein has cost students and taxpayers dearly. Illegitimate spending at the College of Read the full article…