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** FILE ** Billionaire R. Allen Stanford is escorted into the federal courthouse in Houston on Thursday, June 25, 2009. Mr. Stanford faces federal charges that he ran a $7 billion scheme to defraud investors with his international banking empire. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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** FILE ** Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistle-blower in the tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG, holds a news conference outside the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pa., Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, before reporting to the federal prison. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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In this Feb. 22, 2010 photo, people walk by a Bath and Body Works at a shopping mall in Dallas. Retail sales post surprising 0.3 pct February increase raising hopes economy gaining momentum.(AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Kjetil Tonstad (left), Regional Vice President Middle East of Statoil, shakes hands with Abdul-Mehdi Al-Ami, the Deputy Director-General of the Department contracts after a signing ceremony at the Iraqi Oil Ministry in Baghdad, as Dmitry A. Timoshenko, Lukoil's vice president of strategy and business development, looks on. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, announces a financial reform package on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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The Fed's prolonged low interest rate policy hasn't delivered the promised economic recovery. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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** FILE ** A Wall Street street sign is pictured in front of the American flag hanging on the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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** FILE ** In this Jan. 16, 2009 file photo, Citigroup headquarters is seen in New York. The Treasury Department said Thursday that it has raised $10.5 billion from Citigroup share sales, and that the bank has repaid $20 billion of the $45 billion it received from the federal government in 2008. (Photo/Richard Drew)
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** FILE ** The Total Port Arthur refinery is shown Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, in Port Arthur, Texas. Over the past several years, Total Petrochemical's sprawling oil refinery in southeast Texas has sprayed tons of sulfuric acid and carbon monoxide into the sky. The French company's 62-year-old facility has also released cancer-causing benzene, regularly surpassed allowable pollution limits, failed to report dozens of emissions and how much. Total is the most heavily fined polluter in Texas in the 2009 fiscal year, according to the year-end report summarizing how companies were punished in the state that produces the most industrial pollution. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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** FILE ** Ronald Williams (right), chairman and chief executive officer of Aetna of the United States, speaks during the session "A Road Map to Sustainable Recovery" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. With him are Azim Premji (left), chairman of Wipro, India, and Peter Sands, group chief executive of Standard Chartered Bank of the United Kingdom. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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** FILE ** Trays of printed Social Security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management Services facility in Philadelphia in 2005. (Associated Press)
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The dashboard on the new Sonata Hybrid displays not only gas levels, but economy and electric motor information at the New York International Auto Show in New York, Thursday, April 1, 2010. The Obama administration set tougher gas mileage standards for new cars and trucks Thursday, April 1, spurring the next generation of fuel-sipping gas-electric hybrids, efficient engines and electric cars. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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** FILE ** International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks during at a press conference at the end of the second day of the G-20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors at the World Bank headquarters in Washington on Saturday, April 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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** FILE ** A Toyota customer in New York shows what he said is a modified gas pedal in his 2009 Toyota Camry on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The customer said he was preparing to take his Camry back to a Toyota dealership because previous repairs to fix an acceleration problem, including work on the gas pedal, have not solved the issue with his car. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Market-Frankford line trains remain idle at a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) station in Upper Darby, Pa., just outside Philadelphia Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell announced early Monday morning that service would resume after coming to agreement with the transit system's largest union.
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Security vehicles are shown at a gate to a Tesoro Corp. refinery , Friday, April 2, 2010, in Anacortes, Wash. An overnight fire and explosion at the refinery killed at least three people working at the plant. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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**FILE** Rick Watts, 49, protests outside a Whole Foods store in West Hollywood, Calif., on Aug. 23, 2009. The protest took place after John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods Market, wrote an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal about health care reform. (Associated Press)
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A 2010 Ford Fusion sedan is reflected in the chrome grille of an 2010 Edge at a Ford dealership in Denver on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. Ford Motor Co. earned $1 billion in the third quarter, fueled by U.S. market share gains, cost cuts and the government's Cash for Clunkers rebates. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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** FILE ** Copies of President Obama's fiscal 2010 federal budget are seen at the White House in Washington on Thursday, May 7, 2009.
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** FILE ** Stuart Levey, Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, speaks at a news conference at the Treasury Department in Washington in 2008. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
