Author name: Reenita Malhotra

Reenita Malhotra Hora is an Ayurveda clinician, entrepreneur, writer and mom. Her experience has ranged from running Ayoma, an Ayurveda business to running a natural health practice at San Francisco's California Pacific Medical Center. Reenita is a published author of two books books about health and wellness: ‘Ayurveda - the Natural Medicine of India’ and ‘Inner Beauty’. She is also the Editor for Green Options Media's business blogs and a freelance writer for a variety of print and web publications. In quieter moments, she likes to spend her time hiking, swimming the warm seas, cooking with the family or writing fantasy fiction adventure stories for kids from from 2 to 92. Check out her wisdom at www.reenita.com

Evading Taxes Is “Unamerican” : Swiss Banks Come Clean

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Switzerland has historically been a tax haven for Americans (and citizens of other nationalities) however this is about to come to an end as UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland, has agreed “to divulge the names of well-heeled Americans whom the authorities suspect of using offshore accounts at the bank to evade taxes. The bank admitted conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and agreed to pay $780 million to settle a sweeping federal investigation into its activities.” (New York Times)

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Credit Card Companies Find More Ways to Squeeze Cash Out Of Their Customers

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The world of credit might not be dead just yet but it has certainly become less appealing. Credit card companies like Citibank, Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co. and American Express Co. have recently sent letters to their customers, notifying them that interest rates are going up, in some cases to 30% if

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Wall Street Says The Obama Administration’s Bank Bailout Plan Amounts to “Creeping Nationalization”

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Sunday’s Financial Times has confirmed that the administration will be putting Wall Street banks through a “stress test.” The $2,000bn bank bailout plan was announced last week ahead of formal discussions with the industry’s representatives. The bailout package includes financial assistance to purchase toxic assets from banks and a guarantee to cover some of the

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Does The Bank Bailout Spell Socialism? Why Won’t Geithner Let “Zombie Banks” Fail?

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President Obama has come under the radar. Publications like the Huffington Post and the Financial Times are questioning whether he has failed already. Why? Because Tim Geithner has proposed a bailout plan for zombie banks that capitalists believe should be allowed to fail.

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Senate Stimulus Tax Plan Offers Incentives For Plug-In Electric Cars

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Energy tax provisions slated for the massive economic stimulus bill include expanded incentives for plug-in electric vehicles.

Now that’s some seriously good news even though gas prices are the lowest they have been in a long time.

The Senate unveiled yesterday that they would mark up the $272 billion tax measure as they are a promising way to help curb reliance on oil imports by effectively allowing electric power to substitute for oil-based transportation fuels. The energy provisions total more than $30 billion over the course of a decade.

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Warren Buffett Talks About the Economy on Nightly Business Report’s 30th Anniversary Show

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Warren Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway says that President Obama’s #1 job is to fix is the economy but even though we have “got the right person in the operating room, but it doesn’t mean the patient is going to leave the hospital tomorrow.” In an exclusive interview with PBS’s Nightly Business Report, Warren

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President Obama Brings Hope Of An Inspired Economy

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The transition has ended; a new U.S. government is in place with a new economic agenda.

The streets of Washington D.C. were filled this morning with hopeful Americans who came to witness a great moment in history, the moment that America’s first African-American president took office. As Americans gathered together in perhaps the largest crowd that has gathered in America and as others gathered around TV screens elsewhere in the country, they were conscious of watching their savings dwindle, their jobs disappear and their ambitions turn to despair. More than ever, the American people seek a new era highlighting the change that President Barack Obama has promised.

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CESA To Present Proposal on the Role of States in Green Economic Stimulus Package Jan. 13 in D.C.

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A new federal/state clean energy partnership will result in the creation of green collar jobs and clean energy infrastructure in America, according to Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), a national nonprofit organization that works with clean energy funds and state agencies to expand the nation’s clean energy infrastructure and advance markets for clean energy technologies.

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Towards a Global Compact for Managing Climate Change

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Despite an enormous amount of work done to persuade the world of the dangers of climate change and the need for quick corrective action, there is little progress toward a global compact for managing climate change.

In fact, there are some basic differences of perspectives on climate change policies between developed and developing countries which may bedevil future global agreements on climate change for quite some time.

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2008….Cause For Inspiration? The Economic Year In Review

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2008 – what a year! As we get ready to draw the curtains on one of the most unsettling economic years in history, we the writers of the Inspired Economist are still wondering… was this year one that has left our battered economy begging for inspiration? Or have the sustainable events of 2008 spearheaded the initiation of what we believe is truly an Inspired Economy?

2008 was about the $700 billion bailout. Foreclosures. The plummeting stock market. As the year came to a close, the nation’s economic turmoil battled with the presidential election. But it was also a time when new businesses were born into what appears to be an unprecedented sustainability boom. When energy, economy and environment have taken on a new and inter-dependent definition.

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Crafting Solutions for Struggling Homeowners: Shaun Donovan to be Secretary of HUD

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Last week when unemployment numbers soared to near-record highs, President-elect Barack Obama focused on crafting solutions that will help hard-working American families and struggling homeowners during this economic crisis.

The President-elect has selected Shaun Donovan to be his Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

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Don’t Take Charity At Face Value….It Sometimes Funds Terrorism

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Even though in its pure definition, the word ‘charity’ connotes positivity and humanitarianism, in a world of increasing doom and gloom, one cannot always assume that this is the case. The New York Times has published an article talking about the detainment of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the founder of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charity that fronts for the militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba.

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