Revival: Calvary Baptist Church celebrates 120 years of worship and reaching out

Revival: Calvary Baptist Church celebrates 120 years of worship and reaching out
Since it started as a small prayer band meeting in private homes, the Calvary Baptist Church has been a place where its congregants can worship, feel valued and reach out to the surrounding community. SALT LAKE CITY — The carefully crafted sermon by Rev …
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Title-loan officials donated 000 to GOP Assembly candidates
But Assembly Republican leaders successfully led the effort last year to lift the ban on these loans and to ease state restrictions on payday loans – small-term deals with high-interest rates for which borrowers offer no collateral. State Sen. Bob …
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On the New Shopping List: Milk, Bread, Eggs and a Mortgage

On the New Shopping List: Milk, Bread, Eggs and a Mortgage
Customers can now withdraw cash at an A.T.M. with a prepaid card from Walmart, take out a loan at Home Depot for a kitchen renovation or kick-start a new venture with a small-business loan from Sam's Club. … For the retailers, banking products are …
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Blackstone Sees Two-Year Window To Buy Houses: Mortgages
“The recovery in house prices could surprise people,” Gray said in a Bloomberg TV interview airing today on “Money Moves” with Deirdre Bolton. “They have just gotten beaten down so much and we're not building enough to keep up with the population …
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The rise and fall of Vijay Mallya: are India's boom times ending?

The rise and fall of Vijay Mallya: are India's boom times ending?
For Mallya, the self-crowned "king of excellent times", has fallen on hard times. … Much of this new money was concentrated in the "super rich" – one recent study found that billionaires' wealth comprised less than 1% of national income in India in 1996 …
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How to Prepare For the Next Recession
Sometimes those with money to lend or invest get frightened and shift assets into the safest possible places. Then banks tighten credit, non-bank lenders cannot get funds to re-lend, and Main Street businesses suffer. That's possible, but I reckon we'll …
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4 More Years Of What? The Past As Prologue
This is excellent for the world long-term, but it is hard for Americans to compete in this environment, and it depresses American incomes. This is not a small-term problem. It has been with us for most of the last two decades, and it … That will reduce …
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