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On this day of a 265 point drop on top of a net 850+ drop over the past 8 days (12,724 to 11,866) the next question overlying the US Economy is where will be the July 2011 Employment figures (June 2011 = 9.2%). A constant comment from the private sector appears to be the burden of government regulation. In the coming months and years, the business community is facing an enormous slew of known and probable regulations as created by an activist government ideology, ranging from Dodd-Frank Financial Reform & Obama Health Care to EPA Carbon Reduction & Dept. of...

While the average New Orleans homeowner enjoys a low property tax assessment, a select group of locals gets an even larger break: the people who donate to the assessors' campaigns. Campaign donors' properties are more than twice as likely as those of nondonors to be valued by assessors at less than their most recent sales price. Slightly more than half of the donor-owned properties examined by the newspaper were assessed for less than their owners paid for them. By comparison, one in five homes overall is assessed for less than its most recent sales price. For example, former Saints quarterback...