Archive for: politics

Paul’s Thoughts on Investing in Yourself – Becoming an Entrepreneur

I wanted to share some thoughts I had on what it’s REALLY like to be an entrepreneur today. Hopefully these tips will help some of our readers out there that...

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Fed Loses Appeal and Must Disclose Information on Bailouts

Fed Loses Appeal and Must Disclose Information on Bailouts

Filed under: Law , Money and Finance Today , Politics , Headline News , Federal Reserve Over a year ago, two Bloomberg LP reporters filed under the Freedom of Information...

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Why You Should Be Thrilled About Australia Right Now

If Henry David Thoreau was right when he wrote, “That government is best which governs least,” then Australia got itself the best government in the world on...

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China’s Economy Now Second Largest in World

China’s Economy Now Second Largest in World

Filed under: International Markets , Competitive Strategy , Economic Data , Politics , Headline News In the race of economies, China is now number two. It passed...

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McKitrick: gridded climate data over land are likely not “climatically real” but result from data quality problems

McKitrick: gridded climate data over land are likely not “climatically real” but result from data quality problems

Atmospheric Oscillations do not Explain the Temperature-Industrialization Correlation (PDF) (Statistics, Politics, and Policy, Volume 1, Issue 1, July 2010) Ross...

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Wheat Turns to the Dowside and Closes ‘Limit Down’

Wheat Turns to the Dowside and Closes ‘Limit Down’

Filed under: Rumors , Market Matters , Politics , Commodities You don’t often see these moves in commodities, but when they happen, look out below. Two days...

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Total Government Leads to Total Misery

Am I speaking or writing about the War of Northern Aggression, incorrectly called the ‘Civil War’? Not on your life. I am talking about North and South Korea,...

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Goldman Settles with the SEC for $550 Million

Goldman Settles with the SEC for $550 Million

Filed under: Goldman Sachs Group (GS) , Politics If you are familiar with Securities and Exchange Commission cases, you will recognize this boilerplate settlement....

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Soros: Euro Is a ‘Patently Flawed Construct’

Soros: Euro Is a ‘Patently Flawed Construct’

Filed under: Market Matters , Politics , Financial Crisis , Currency Without giving much detail, George Soros says “The euro is a patently flawed construct...

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Obama Administration to Double the Wireless Spectrum

Obama Administration to Double the Wireless Spectrum

Filed under: Products and Services , Politics , Technology With the explosive growth of smartphones and laptop computers, there is a increasing need for wireless...

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Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise to 472,000

Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise to 472,000

Filed under: Economic Data , Politics , Recession New applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly rose 13,000 to 472,000 in the week ending June 28. Analysts...

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Mismanaging Contraction

Lesson of the Macondo: Blowout preventers don’t prevent blowouts. This comes as a shock to people attuned to the on-schedule arrival of techno-miracles. Now,...

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