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President Obama's new Economic Recovery Advisory Board includes a subprime-mortgage pioneer who drove her Chicago-area bank into bankruptcy; a national union boss who took the Fifth Amendment on three occasions when asked by federal investigators what he knew about a money-laundering scheme involving the Teamsters union and the Democratic Party while Sen. Christopher J. Dodd was its general chairman; the president and CEO of a Swiss bank under investigation for helping rich Americans dodge income taxes; and assorted deep-pocketed Obama campaign donors with conflicts of interest, the Washington Times reports. No wonder investors have such little faith in the president's...