By: Linda Wertheimer and Tom Goldman //
December 25, 2011
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Perhaps more than any other major professional sports league in this country, the National Basketball Association is star-driven. A Christmas slate of season-opening games featured the electric play of the league's Most Valuable Player Derrick Rose, the NBA's top scorer Kevin Durant and LeBron James, too.
Recently released financial disclosure reports show that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia is one of the wealthiest members of Congressional leadership.
Cantor owes much of his wealth to the professional success of his wife, Diana Cantor, who has spent decades in corporate leadership....
Profits for the nation's carmakers are on the rise, but after years of doing more with less, higher profits are unlikely to translate into significant numbers of new jobs. There are eight fewer plants and hundreds of thousands fewer workers in the industry than before the Great Recession.