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New America's event is discussed in Dow Jones Newswire: "The voices of those who represent the largest financial interests have not been shy and those who advocate for the smallest financial interests need to be just as non-shy," said Sperling, counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, at a Friday conference on the under-banked population. ...

Len Nichols, director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation, said the extent to which employee plans are taxed, and who those new taxes affect, will ultimately be driven by how much revenue is needed to pay for the broader overhaul ...

When a unit of Samsung Electronics Co. appeared arm in arm earlier this year with companies pushing the government to open unused airwaves for inexpensive wireless Internet service, other parts of the South Korean conglomerate were less than pleased.

Samsung (SSNLF) boasts a vast reach into markets ranging from cell phones to televisions. In this instance, that diversity has the company in the odd position of arguing both for and against the hot-button notion of tapping unused TV airwaves in… more