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The Evolving Online Finance Ecosystem
Last week we analyzed how the Web is transforming personal finance. Today we’ll take a broader look at the world of online finance, from personal to small business tools. To get an understanding of the online finance space, we spoke to the founder and CEO of one of the most promising startups in online finance, Rod Drury from Xero. Rod told us that he sees four types of markets in online finance:…

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President Obama Promises ‘Forceful Response’ to Supreme Court Ruling on … – ABC News
Obama Proposes Limits on Wall St. Banks, But Is It Enough to Ease Main Street Anger– President Unveils Reform Measures, Limits on Trading, Investing in …

Brazil finance min sees 2010 GDP growth at 5.2 pct – Reuters
BRASILIA, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Brazil's economy should grow 5.2 percent in 2010, the country's finance minister said on Thursday, underscoring a strong …

Quick hits: John Edwards’ latest news, campaign finance reform and Cindy McCain – College News
John Edwards' latest news, plus the Supreme Court turns over 20-year precedent with campaign finance reform ruling. Quick hits has seen an awful amount of …

EADS may need finance if A400M efforts fail-report – Reuters
BERLIN/PARIS, Jan 21 (Reuters) – EADS (EAD.PA) could be forced to raise new finances if A400M buyer nations fail to agree a price increase for the delayed …

Factoring slates into the Prince George’s campaign finance picture – Washington Post (blog)
Numbers are still trickling in from Wednesday's campaign finance reports, but at first glance, it appears Rushern L. Baker III's campaign committee has a …

GE Investors Bind Stock as Congress Mulls Finance – BusinessWeek
s stock may trail industrial competitors until finance rules being crafted by Congress and President Barack Obama give a clearer sense of who will oversee …

More aftershocks…Votes aren’t there…Finance law struck down – 9&10 News
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two aftershocks have again rattled Haiti's capital, sending rescue teams scrambling off precarious piles of rubble. …

Obama blasts Court decision on campaign finance – Washington Post
In a written statement, Obama says the campaign finance ruling will lead to a "stampede of special interest money in our politics." Obama declared that his …

MSN-Citi venture emerges as Bundle finance site – Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Microsoft MSN, Citigroup and Morningstar have joined up and on Tuesday launched Bundle.com, which the companies are billing as a social-media Web site for …

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Alan Grayson Petitioning Against Looming Supreme Court Campaign Finance Decision
In response to news that the Supreme Court will hold a special public session on Thursday, which some expect could bring a highly-anticipated campaign finance decision, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) is circulating an online petition opposing the decision, which is expected to undo limits on corporate spending in federal campaigns. Grayson said he would personally deliver the signatures to the court in the morning. “We’re trying something new — usually the only petitions the Supreme Court sees are petitions for writ of certiorari,” Grayson told HuffPost. Asked where he got the idea, he said, “It’s in the Constitution. The First Amendment guarantees the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Progressive good-government groups worry that the Supreme Court seems poised to unleash a flood of corporate money into federal campaigns.

Supreme Court Rolls Back Campaign Spending Limits
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on business efforts to influence federal campaigns. By a 5-4 vote, the court overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said companies can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to produce and run their own campaign ads. The decision, which almost certainly will also allow labor unions to participate more freely in campaigns, threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states. It leaves in place a prohibition on direct contributions to candidates from corporations and unions. Critics of the stricter limits have argued that they amount to an unconstitutional restraint of free speech, and the court majority agreed. “The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion, joined by his four more conservative colleagues. Strongly disagreeing, Justice John Paul Stevens said in his dissent, “The court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation.” Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor joined Stevens’ dissent, parts of which he read aloud in the courtroom. The justices also struck down part of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred union- and corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election campaigns. Advocates of strong campaign finance regulations have predicted that a court ruling against the limits would lead to a flood of corporate and union money in federal campaigns as early as this year’s midterm congressional elections. “It’s the Super Bowl of bad decisions,” said Common Cause president Bob Edgar, a former congressman from Pennsylvania. The decision removes limits on independent expenditures that are not coordinated with candidates’ campaigns. The case does not affect political action committees, which mushroomed after post-Watergate laws set the first limits on contributions by individuals to candidates. Corporations, unions and others may create PACs to contribute directly to candidates, but they must be funded with voluntary contributions from employees, members and other individuals, not by corporate or union treasuries. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas joined Kennedy to form the majority in the main part of the case. Roberts, in a separate opinion, said that upholding the limits would have restrained “the vibrant public discourse that is at the foundation of our democracy.” Stevens complained that those justices overreached by throwing out earlier Supreme Court decisions that had not been at issue when this case first came to the court. “Essentially, five justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us, so they changed the case to give themselves an opportunity to change the law,” Stevens said. The case began when a conservative group, Citizens United, made a 90-minute movie that was very critical of Hillary Rodham Clinton as she sought the Democratic presidential nomination. Citizens United wanted to air ads for the anti-Clinton movie and distribute it through video-on-demand services on local cable systems during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign. But federal courts said the movie looked and sounded like a long campaign ad, and therefore should be regulated like one. The movie was advertised on the Internet, sold on DVD and shown in a few theaters. Campaign regulations do not apply to DVDs, theaters or the Internet. The court first heard arguments in March, then asked for another round of arguments about whether corporations and unions should be treated differently from individuals when it comes to campaign spending. The justices convened in a special argument session in September, Sotomayor’s first. The conservative justices gave every indication then that they were prepared to take the steps they did on Thursday. The justices, with only Thomas in dissent, did uphold McCain-Feingold requirements that anyone spending money on political ads must disclose the names of contributors. More on Supreme Court.