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pbr/ brBy Alexei Oreskovic and Sarah McBride/br brSAN FRANCISCO, March 28 (Reuters) - Social-networking site Facebook is halting the sale of its shares on secondary markets effective next week as the company prepares to hold its initial public offering in May, according to a person familiar with the matter./br brFacebook recently asked firms that arrange trading of its privately held shares to stop doing so, a move intended to reduce churn in its valuation that could complicate matters as it sets an IPO price, according to another person familiar with the matter./br brFacebook is planning t

pbr/ brBy Alexei Oreskovic and Sarah McBride/br brSAN FRANCISCO, March 28 (Reuters) - Social-networking site Facebook is halting the sale of its shares on secondary markets effective next week as the company prepares to hold its initial public offering in May, according to a person familiar with the matter./br brFacebook recently asked firms that arrange trading of its privately held shares to stop doing so, a move intended to reduce churn in its valuation that could complicate matters as it sets an IPO price, according to another person familiar with the matter./br brFacebook is planning t

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/1054/RUSH-night-owl-banner3.jpg” alt=”Open Thread for Night Owls” height=”100″ width=”550″ //div At ProPublica, Jesse Eisinger a href=”http://www.propublica.org/article/fed-shrugged-off-warning-let-banks-pay-shareholders-billions”writes/a of how the Fed shrugged off warnings and let banks pay shareholders billions, leaving the financial system, and the rest of the economy, vulnerable to as big a mess as the last crisis put us into.

pa href=”"Paul Krugman/a says the only presidential candidates who can meet basic GOP requirements are the clueless or the cynical:/p blockquoteThe Washington Post quotes an unnamed Republican adviser who compared what happened to Mr. Cain, when he suddenly found himself leading in the polls, to the proverbial tale of the dog who had better not catch that car he’s chasing. “Something great and awful happened, the dog caught the car. And of course, dogs don’t know how to drive cars.

pimg src=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/28416/APR_11_18.jpg” width=”550″ height=”325″ //p pVisual source: a href=”http://newseum.org”Newseum/a/p pa href=”http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-17/a-decade-of-missed-chances-is-dragging-down-prospects-in-u-s-ezra-klein.html”Ezra Klein/a:/p blockquoteEven the opportunities we have seized are mostly coming undone. In one of his presidency’s more bipartisan moments, George W. Bush joined with Senator Ted Kennedy to pass No Child Left Behind.

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/426/APR_1116.jpg” alt=”" height=”460″ width=”550″ //div smallVisual source: a href=”http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/”Newseum/a/small pa href=”http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/occupy-wall-st-spreads-united-states-gallery-1.978026″Daily News/a:/p blockquoteThey’ve outlasted snow storms, pepper spray and even evictions. So it looks like the Occupy Wall St. movement isn’t going anywhere.

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/191280/GOP-PrimaryDebate.jpg” alt=”GOP 2012 Debate” height=”100″ width=”550″ / div defang_class=”dkimg-capquot;”Talk about it here. Watch it live on Bloomberg TV or a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics?hpid=z1″washingtonpost.com/a.br //div /div pspan class=”update”b5:11 PM PT/b:/span OWS makes it’s debate debut, in the form of a question about OWS from Tumulty to Gingrich.

Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics Marc J. Hetherington, Jonathan D. Weiler Cambridge University Press Paperback, 234 pages, $23.16 Kindle edition 9.99 August, 2009 Money quote: Considering our story up to now, we believe we have adduced powerful evidence for the increasingly central role that authoritarianism has come to play in structuring party competition, mass preferences and the relevant issue agenda of the past forty years.

Throw open the shade that covers my mind I’m going to touch I’ve got to believe The bell tolls for me I, I want to testify - Melissa Etheridge Maybe mistakes are what make our fate… without them what would shape our lives? - Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) in Sex and the City Sometime in the 1980’s, Alan Abelson, the editor of Money Magazine, said that money was “the new sex.” There is one distinct difference. Many people talk about sex. There are hundreds of television shows, chat rooms, and web sites devoted to sex.

President Barack Obama has been the target of endless tirades from the Republican opposition, nonetheless, the president has remained poised as he has made progress on a wide range of important issues. But will the “Yes we can!” voters of 2008 be energized enough this fall to overcome those whose rallying cry is “Hell no!”? The incumbent party almost always loses House and Senate seats in a midterm elections, and that will certainly be the outcome this coming November.