Matt Horween

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Matt Horween is a certified public accountant and served as a commissioned U.S. foreign service officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development from March 1981 to March 1998. He served in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Egypt, Honduras and Barbados, spending about 15 years overseas. He ended his career stationed in Washington, D.C. as the financial controller for the bureau that controlled the foreign aid program for Europe, including all of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and its former satellite countries. Horween also worked as an auditor for Price Waterhouse & Company in New York City and held various financial management positions for several publically listed corporations. Early in his career, he served as a radio intercept analyst for the U.S. Air Force Security Service and was stationed in Greece. Horween graduated with honors from the CCNY, Baruch School of Business Administration and was Editor in Chief of the "Accounting Forum." He received the Haskins Award Silver Medal from the New York State Society of CPA's for the second highest grade on the May 1969 NYS CPA Examination. Since his retirement, he has served as the Acting Controller of the Clark County Library System and a large PVO in Las Vegas, NV.

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Long-Term Debt Should Be Longer

By Matt Horween

Mexico and several other countries have issued 100-year and 50-year bonds -- why not us?

01:37PM 03/07/12

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Mr. President, Time to Embrace Nat Gas

By Matt Horween

This would reduce the entire world's energy costs and reduce the power that undemocratic, unfriendly governments have over Western democracies.

09:02AM 02/29/12

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An Open Letter to Warren Buffett

By Matt Horween

Want to make this country better? Here's how.

01:24PM 01/30/12

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Forget Wall Street, Occupy Congress

By Matt Horween

I sympathize with Occupy Wall Street, but it's targeting the wrong place and the wrong people. It's time to Occupy Congress.

01:38PM 10/17/11

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Build to Build Jobs (RealMoney.com $)

By Matt Horween

The two parties should have agreed on a targeted program to build infrastructure.

04:00PM 08/16/11

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Opinion: Stop the D.C. Debt Shuffle (RealMoney.com $)

By Matt Horween

These 'leaders' don't get it -- we can't continue on this course.

12:00PM 08/09/11

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Natural Gas Can Save Our Country (RealMoney.com $)

By Matt Horween

We need a national purpose and gigantic paradigm shift from being victims to being champions.

09:52AM 08/03/11

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Opinion: One Contradictory Tea Party (RealMoney.com $)

By Matt Horween

That's putting it nicely.

07:46AM 07/29/11

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Opinion: Retire the 401(k) Now (RealMoney.com $)

By Matt Horween

The current retirement system rips off the workers and only benefits the huge industry that supports it.

01:00PM 07/13/11

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Opinion: GOP Stonewalling Is Costing Us Jobs (RealMoney.com $)

By Matt Horween

The Republicans believe they need employment to remain awful to win in 2012 -- and the U.S. people are paying the price.

09:15AM 07/11/11

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