TOKYO (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve board member Lawrence Lindsey said on Thursday it will be "obvious" by the end of this year that the U.S. economy has entered a "deflationary trap."


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Reuters - Former Federal Reserve board member Lawrence Lindsey said on Thursday it will be "obvious" by the end of this year that the U.S. economy has entered a "deflationary trap."
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AP - Former H&R Block Inc. CEO Thomas Bloch said Friday he is leaving the tax preparer's board of directors and sharply criticized the company's priorities, prices, and its failure to keep up with do-it-yourself online tax programs.
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Former New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) employees, from left to right, David Botello, Niysha Edward, and June Andrade, appear during a news conference, Wednesday, July 14, 2010, at the entrance of the Federal Building in Oakland, Calif. A group of former employees are suing the factory and Toyota Motor Corp., claiming they were not given fair severance packages because they were on disability leave. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Former employees of a shuttered California auto plant sued the factory and Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday, claiming they were denied fair severance packages because injuries kept them off the job in the months leading to the facility's closure.


This photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Kilpatrick, already serving a Michigan prison term, appeared in U.S. District Court in Detroit for arraignment on tax and fraud charges, accused of using money from a charity fund for personal expenses. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)AP - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded poverty Tuesday and was granted a lawyer at public expense to defend him against charges that he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars collected for a charity on himself and his family.


FILE - In this Nov. 8, 1989 file photo Panamanian military strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega talks to reporters in Panama City. Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's lawyers argued for his release as he went on trial in France on Monday June 28, 2010, saying he should be set free instead of facing money laundering charges that could put him back in jail for a decade. Noriega, who spent 20 years in U.S. custody for drug trafficking, started his testimony with a stumble, when he was asked about discrepancies in his date of birth on different legal documents.  (AP Photo)AP - The prosecutor in a French money laundering case against former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega asked Wednesday that he be sentenced to 10 years in prison, but his defense lawyers countered that the charges were part of a political plot against him.


FILE - In this Nov. 8, 1989 file photo Panamanian military strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega talks to reporters in Panama City. Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's lawyers argued for his release as he went on trial in France on Monday June 28, 2010, saying he should be set free instead of facing money laundering charges that could put him back in jail for a decade. Noriega, who spent 20 years in U.S. custody for drug trafficking, started his testimony with a stumble, when he was asked about discrepancies in his date of birth on different legal documents.  (AP Photo)AP - Relishing the chance to defend himself before a judge, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega blamed a "conspiracy" against him for French money-laundering charges that landed him in a Paris court after 20 years in a U.S. jail.


Clifford Reuters - Former Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man pleaded guilty on Monday to evading state taxes over a four-year period, costing the music star more than $100,000 in fines and fees.


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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, center, speaks to members of the media prior to the first board meeting of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, as Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, left, and Haiti Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, stand next by, Port-au-Prince, Thursday, June 17, 2010. Clinton announced a new fund for Haitian businesses backed in part by Slim, the world's richest man. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Former President Bill Clinton announced a plan Thursday to help Haiti recover from the Jan. 12 earthquake with loans to small and medium-size businesses backed by aid from the world's richest man.


AP - Former state oil and gas director Dan Dickinson says Alaska would have a better shot at a North Slope natural gas pipeline if it didn't view the project as an economic savior.
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