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Obama’s Boss Gets Permanent Death Panels
As republican senators at last get a chance to read the health crimes bill being rammed through by the politburo, Obama’s boss, unrepentant Nazi collaborator, George Soros is poised to celebrate a major triumph in the advancement of his euthanasia
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2010: The Year of Living Sustainably
Big changes are coming in 2010, both for the economy in general and CRM in particular. There will be great challenges on the road to more sustainable business practices, and also great opportunities. Look for increasing dependence on analytics, a
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Banks Bundled Bad Debt, Bet Against It and Won
Mr. Egol, a Princeton graduate, had risen to prominence inside the bank by creating mortgage-related securities, named Abacus, that were at first intended to protect Goldman from investment losses if the housing market collapsed. As the market soured,
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Top 10 for ten
It’s been a decade of booms and busts — and while it’s ending on a bust for many, a few are sitting as pretty as can be in multi-billionaire status. In reflecting on the fortunes of the past 10 years, The Post took a look at who Wall Street’s biggest
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Judges Gone Wild
The fallout is already coming from this year's Supreme Court Caperton decision on judicial bias, and it isn't good. A new rule on judicial recusal in Michigan shows how the decision could expose nearly every judge to charges of prejudice.In Caperton v.
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NEW TSA SECURITY MEASURES TBA
“All passengers are reminded that they should have thought about taking a shit before leaving the airport. And we thank you for flying Gitmo Airlines!”
If I’m in the bathroom for an hour…God help the flight crew that has to come in to get me out.
How
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Investors Reshape IndyMac
By Peter Lattman And Ruth Simon A group of billionaires, hedge-fund managers and ex-Goldman Sachs executives are building a banking empire in California—with assistance from Uncle Sam.Exactly a year ago these investors acquired the assets of collapsed
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Hamilton: Venture capitalists make business case for going green
Ontario’s first multi-megawatt solar farm was connected to the grid in October. The province has become the Canadian leader in green energy. (Oct. 6, 2009)
Canada certainly has some work to do to make sure we thrive in this
new economic order. For
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Cheney: Obama pretends we’re not at war
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RBS Recommends Asia High-Grade Bonds Before Credit Downturn
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Investors should buy Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Noble Group Ltd. bonds before risk aversion returns to Asia next year, raising prices for debt perceived to be safe, according to Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc.
Companies will
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Macro hedge funds tipped for 2010
While 2009's best trade has been to buy riskier assets rebounding from last year's depressed prices, funds of funds think 2010 will not see such large price rises and will instead belong to managers with the skill to differentiate between economic and
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Victor Sperandeo Podcast #2
You can click on the blue links in the podcast to take you to the material being discussed in the podcast.
Held my own after some encouraging words from Manish before going on: “You’ll be fine. You’re on right after Rakesh Jhunjhunwalla” and “You’re
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Japan Return to 1991 GDP Gives Credit Markets Mega Risk Crisis
Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, swept to power by a public seeking an end to economic and political stagnation, is failing to arrest the nation’s decline.
Japanese gross domestic product shrank to an annualized 471
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Finding Prospects Among the 10 Least-Liked Stocks: John Dorfman
Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- To make good profits in the stock market, it pays to go against the crowd.
One way I force myself to do this is by focusing periodically on the 10 stocks least popular with investors, as measured by their price-to-earnings
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NEWS -- Iran accepts Clinton non-deadline on nuclear talks
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran said Tuesday it welcomes Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's comments that there is no hard-and-fast deadline for starting nuclear dialogue.
On Monday, Clinton said the Obama administration remained open to negotiating
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You risk execution as enemies of God, Iran warns protesters
• An Iranian opposition supporter covers his face with his bloodstained hand during clashes with security forces in Tehran. Picture: Getty Images
Mostafa Mohammad Najjar made the latest threat after the intelligence ministry said several foreigners,
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NAMBLA-gate: The Strange Case of Kevin Jennings, Part Three
A Marxist atheist trained in materialism, Harry Hay tried to find spirituality in his own confused sexual identity, eventually developing the idea that he was a “Radical Faerie” who had male and female traits. A communist, he was also a supporter of
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Live Twitter Q & A
I’ve been thinking about holding a live Q&A on Twitter. Email me or DM me on Twitter if you have any thoughts on this. I’d be happy to do it on a regular basis if you thought it was beneficial.
You can Follow Me on Twitter and we can get this going. I’
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Contrarian Investor Sees Economic Crash in China
Source: New York Times
SHANGHAI James S. Chanos built one of the largest fortunes on Wall Street by foreseeing the collapse of Enron and other highflying companies whose stories were too good to be true.
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Now Mr. Chanos, a wealthy
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Powerspan's year of truth
Frank Alix is the CEO of Powerspan Corp., a company providing technology used to capture carbon dioxide emissions from coal-powered electric plants worldwide.Scott Yates/syates@seacoastonlin
Powerspan Corp. of Portsmouth has reached a landmark in its
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The Secret History of the Left
Oliver Stone, the American left’s answer to Leni Riefenstahl, having drained the swamps of Viet Cong propaganda dry is going to apply his talent for cinematical historical revisionism to WW2 in a Showtime miniseries, “The Secret History of America”.
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Glengarry Glen Ross
Here is Alec Baldwin as Blake in the movie . Written originally by David Mamet as a play, it debuted in London in 1983 and then shown later the same year in NY and Chicago. In 1992 it was adapted for film.
Baldwin almost didn’t play this part: He left
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Web censorship: clash of the behemoths
The United States and Google have both said they would move against Chinese internet censorship, possibly signalling the start of a harder line towards China by US President Barack Obama and the end of Google's business in the country.
Secretary of
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Jack Cafferty Tosses Idea That Earth Could Actually Be Cooling
As the debate continues about global warming, the month of December was the 14th coldest in 115 years in the United States, and some scientists insist the earth is entering a cooling trend.
CNN’s Jack Cafferty highlighted the research of “some
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Haiti by the numbers: Damage, help on giant scale
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People in Haiti needing help: 3 million. Bodies collected for disposal so far: 9,000. Number of people being fed daily by the United Nation's World Food Program: 8,000.
The U.S. carrier Carl Vinson sits in waters off Port-au-Prince,
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Haiti Earthquake Death Toll: The Devastation In Numbers
People in Haiti needing help: 3 million. Bodies collected for disposal so far: 9,000. Number of people being fed daily by the United Nation's World Food Program: 8,000.
The numbers behind the outpouring of earthquake assistance are giant. But they are
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THE CONFEDERATE CRUSADER: ONE MAN, ONE VOTE; UNLESS...
So you want to know what the Democrats are really up to, don’t
you? After all, it just doesn’t make any sense to blatantly defy
the will of the electorate. Yet we see this administration, and the
Democratic party itself, consistently insist on pushing
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Credit Suisse to Expand Asia Prime Services
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Credit Suisse <CSGN.VX> will increase the headcount in its prime brokerage team in Asia by 15 percent to 20 percent in 2010 as it aims to win business from the increasing number of global hedge funds eager to set up base in
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Rogers trains guns on Chanos for China remarks
American investment guru Jim Rogers has debunked contrarian investor James S Chanos suggestions that China's investment bubble may lead to a Dubai-style implosion.
Rogers said the Chinese economy is not in any imminent threat of collapse, and
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Honour for Bangladesh aid group's Afghan success
AFP - Immaculately attired and cigar in hand, Fazle Hasan Abed, who will soon become the first Bangladeshi citizen to be knighted, does not look as if he holds the secret to a better future for Afghanistan.
But his charity, the Bangladesh Rural
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Haiti's elite hold nation's future in their hands
Source: LA Times
Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - Gregory Mevs leaped from his armored silver Toyota SUV and marched past the guards and mango trees into what serves these days as the center of the Haitian government.
He was ready to dispense a
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Wall St Journal Gloats Over Freedom of Bribery
Freedom has had its best week in many years. On Tuesday, Massachusetts put a Senate check on a reckless Congress, and yesterday the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision supporting free political speech by overturning some of Congress's more
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Obama must quickly abandon liberals
More than anything else, it was the foolishness of the far left that harpooned Martha Coakley in Massachusetts. Independents broke big for Scott Brown and his own internal polling showed that national security issues like civilian trials for al-Qaeda
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Dems Control Our Oxymoronic Government
I often get pressured by liberal supporting goons who send emails tearing down everything I write about the corrupt and decidedly anti-American, Constitution-destroying, part of our government.
They are without doubt, words that prove America is no
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None Dare Call it Genocide
Dennis Howard told EWTN television network on the day of the March for Life in Washington, D.C. that legalized abortion is the equivalent of 260 Haiti disasters on American soil. The death toll from abortion in the U.S. is over 52 million.
One of the
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Dealbook Column: Still Needed: A Sheriff of Finance
“We need a global sheriff.”
Those were the words of George Soros, the investor and philanthropist, ahead of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting not this year, or last year, but in 2008, a little more than a month before Bear Stearns neared
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Soros: Obama too quick on bank regulation call
DAVOS, Switzerland - Billionaire financier George Soros said Wednesday that President Barack Obama's call for tough regulations on big banks is too soon because the economy is not "out of the woods." Soros said that imposing new taxes on banks goes
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China's economic policies under fire at World Economic Forum
DAVOS, Switzerland - Political leaders, central bankers and financiers at the World Economic Forum have attacked China's monetary and trade policy and questioned its ability to tackle an overheating economy.
Top Chinese officials face an increasingly
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Planet Business
A review of the week by
LAURA SLATTERY
– Number of cars recalled by Toyota this week because of potential problems with accelerator pedals on certain models.
– Total number of Toyota vehicles recalled since November, with the company’s strong safety
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IMF to Launch $100 Billion Green Fund
By Goran Mijuk DAVOS, Switzerland --The International Monetary Fund will launch a $100 billion green fund as part of global efforts to stimulate economic growth, managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Saturday. "There is a consensus around the
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Leaders in Davos Admit Drop in Trust
If there was one takeaway from the annual gathering of business and political leaders in Davos this year, it was this: trust in governments, corporations and above all banks has become as elusive as sure footing on the icy streets of this Alpine resort,
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School-spending: Race to top (bottom?)
With the Obama administration's "Race to the Top'' in educational achievement, authorities say they are ready to abandon the "race to the bottom'' that came from "No Child Left Behind.''
The signature educational reform of the Bush administration,
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Dealbook: Bankers in Davos Seek a United Message on Volcker Rule
The breakthrough did not come until early Saturday morning at a closed-door meeting here in the Swiss Alps.
A group of the world’s top banking chiefs and regulators, some nursing hangovers after a late night of party-hopping, finally started making
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FT buys hedge fund macro intelligence firm MGA
LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Pearson's (PSON.L) Financial Times
has bought Medley Global Advisors, a provider of macroeconomic
intelligence to hedge funds and banks, as it shifts emphasis
from advertising-funded publications to subscription services.
UK-
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Soros: China seen as a motor of global economy
George Soros, the world famous investor and currency speculator, said here on Wednesday that China has been the first country to recover from the financial crisis and emerged as a motor of the global economy, with its isolation from the global
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The Fiat Money Carry Trade to Buy Gold and Agriculture
Last year it did not matter what you bought, you made money. Today, many are shocked by the drop in stocks, silver and gold. One simple explanation for the drop in silver and gold could be the strength of the dollar. This alone will affect the value of
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Letter: Obama underwrites offshore drilling
Published February 06, 2010 08:25 pm - President Obama signed an executive order to loan two billion dollars to the Brazilian Oil Exploration Company to drill off the coast of Brazil.
President Obama signed
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The wider financial impact of southern Europe's Pigs
Financial markets like to bet against countries and punish those who have policies or deficits that look unmanageable.
Back in 1992 the pound came under brutal attack from speculators led by George Soros who were prepared to gamble that the Tory
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FX Trading - Where are we? Our best guess!
Key News
· For all the concern over the $1.6 trillion U.S. budget deficit and record debt load, the dollar is as valuable now as 35 years ago. (Bloomberg)
· Japanese bank lending logged its biggest annual fall in more than four years in January as
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The richest Americans are not all that generous
Only 4 percent of the 400 wealthiest Americans listed by Forbes magazine were among the top 50 donors in the country, according to a tally of the nation's leading philanthropists in 2009.
Those top 50 donors gave a total of $4.1 billion to charity in 20
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ANDREW ALEXANDER: Hubris and why chickens are coming home to roost for the euro's deluded cheerleaders
Will the Eurozone still be around in five years' time? With Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain now suffering a severe financial crisis and with the euro seriously weakening, I think the prospect that it survives in its present form is most unlikely.
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Gold, the Ultimate Bubble
What George Soros said, and what the press said he said...
"GEORGE SOROS warns gold is now the 'ultimate bubble'," ran the Daily Telegraph headline.
What Soros actually said was:
"When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles
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DVD sales boost Viacom's profit
Feb 12, 2010 (Los Angeles Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
To see more of the Los Angeles Times, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to
http://www.latimes.com. Copyright (c) 2010, Los Angeles Times Distributed
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The Folly of Financial Reform
I come bearing bad news. Reform of our financial services industry is going to be a failure. Leave aside the preconceived notions that politicians will come up with faulty or halfhearted regulations, that they are writing bills in cahoots with the
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How Congressional Black Caucus got around McCain-Feingold
In the wake of the Citizens United v FEC decision by the Supreme Court, Democrats in Congress have pledged legislative action to restore the rejected components of the McCain-Feingold legislation, claiming that they have a mission to stop corporate
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ON MENTAL HEALTH CUTS, BROWNBACK, MORAN, KOCH
State budget cuts are placing the public mental health system at a breaking point. The mental health system has taken a 10 percent Medicaid rate cut — which is crippling, because local mental health centers
are heavily dependent on that revenue (in
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Q&A: "Sustainability Issues Are Economic Issues"
Anna Shen interviews
MINDY LUBBER, president of Ceres
NEW YORK, Feb 16 (IPS) - Fresh from a whirlwind tour of non-stop meetings at the World Economic Forum in Davos and a U.N
.investor summit on climate risk attended by George Soros, Al Gore, and 500
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Elders of Wall St. Favor More Regulation
Put aside for a moment the political pressure to regulate banking and trading. Ask the elder statesmen of these industries — giants like George Soros, Nicholas F. Brady, John S. Reed, William H. Donaldson and John C. Bogle — where they stand on
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George Soros doubles gold investment
US billionaire George Soros has more than doubled his investment in gold, despite calling it the "ultimate bubble" just weeks ago.
Mr Soros' investment vehicle Soros Fund Management increased its holding in SPDR Gold Trust to 6.2 million shares, worth
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Precious Metals' Fake Rally or Beginning of Another Strong Move Up?
Investing your money in a long-term position can be likened to navigating a ship to port. The compass (fundamental and technical analysis) points you in the right direction as you head out to sea. Even if your ship is sturdy (you have made the right
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The outrageous left
Yes, folks, it’s that time again. Another fundraising letter arrived in the mail and I’m going to quote some of its hyper-partisan excess for the purpose of general amusement. Since the previous installment in this serious was about Bill Clinton, this
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Vail Valley Voices: Turning point on Obama?
Turning points come in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors. Sports fans will reasonably argue the New Orleans Saints second half onside kick was the turning point in Super Bowl XLIV.
Military historians agree the Battle of Gettysburg was the
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Euro's future in question even if Greece rescued: Soros
SINGAPORE - A makeshift assistance should be enough to rescue Greece but bigger problems facing Europe would leave the future of the euro currency in question, billionaire investor George Soros said.
Financier and philanthropist George Soros attends a
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Get Shorty: A Loser's Answer
THERE IS NO SURER SIGN of desperate and ultimately failed leadership than to blame its plight on short-selling speculators.
As part of this hoary tradition, inept or corrupt leaders attempt to demonize those who would profit from the crisis of their
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How long can the U.S. dollar defy gravity?
Facing mounting inflation and the escalating cost of the Vietnam War, President Richard Nixon, on August 15, 1971, took the United States off the gold standard, which had been in place since 1944 and required that the Federal Reserve back all dollars
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Feds Probe Goldman Sachs Over Greece
There is other news going on in the world.
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers Thursday that the central bank is looking into the use by Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms of a sophisticated investment instrument to
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Solid data give stocks a lift as pound slips again
PAN PYLAS, AP Business Writer | LONDON World markets rose Friday after solid economic data helped shore up investor optimism, a day after concerns about Greece's debt crisis and the U.S. recovery from recession weighed on sentiment. In Europe,
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The Multiplication of Money
The economy grew in the fourth quarter by 5.9%, the most in years. The adjusted monetary base is exploding. Bank reserves are literally through the roof. The Fed is flooding money into the system in an effort to get banks to lend. An historically
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Soros: BHO Should’ve Taken Over Banks
WASHINGTON—Billionaire investor George Soros, who helped U.S. President Barack Obama raise money for his presidential campaign in 2008, said Sunday he wasn’t happy with Mr. Obama’s handling of the financial crisis.
Mr. Soros said the government should
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Soros Signals Gold Bubble as Goldman Predicts Record (Update1)
(Adds today’s gold price in eighth paragraph.)
March 1 (Bloomberg) -- George Soros is helping drive up gold prices by doubling his bet in a market even he considers a “bubble” as Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Barclays Capital and HSBC Holdings Plc
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Soros pans euro, buys gold
George Soros, one of the world's leading investors, believes the euro "may not survive" and has publicly declared that he is buying into gold - even though he considers it a "bubble".
Soros Fund Management - alongside other hedge funds - has been
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Move Over Gore, Make Way for Lindsey Graham
has not only spent his political capital, but is running a deficit. Mocked by the right every time he pops up, he is no longer in a position to convince anyone who isn't already convinced — especially when he writes for our most liberal daily newspaper.
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Traders, hedge funds turn attention to the next Greece
I s Spain the next Greece? Or Italy? Or Portugal? Even as Greece pledged anew Wednesday to rein in its runaway budget deficit, briefly easing the anxiety over its perilous finances, traders on both sides of the Atlantic weighed the risks - and potential
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Ahluwalia on UN advisory panel
Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia [ Images ], is among 19 members chosen by UN chief Ban Ki-moon for a high-level advisory group on Climate Change Financing tasked with mobilising funds pledged during the Copenhagen meet to
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Rats Leaving Sinking Ship: Craig Crawford Bristles at ‘Racist’ Label, Ankles MSNBC
I'd like the orchestra to start playing on the Leto Deck-just to calm the passengers of the Tingletanic. Maybe they can lead off with the orchestral version of "Retracto"
Won't it be interesting yo see this loser try to reinvent himself. Maybe a book
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Volcker Says Euro to Survive as Greek Budget Crisis Manageable
March 8 (Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said European officials are lucky that the euro region’s first major crisis was sparked by one of its smaller members and he’s confident the currency will survive.
“I’m still a
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David Brooks: ’60s radicals and the Tea Party
About 40 years ago, a social movement arose to destroy the establishment. The people we loosely call the New Left wanted to take on The Man, return power to the people, upend the elites and lead a revolution.
Today, another social movement has arisen.
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Citigroup shares: No longer toxic?
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Yes, Citigroup lost billions in the financial crisis. And yes, it's still swimming in toxic assets. But Bruce Berkowitz argues the worst is over.
Berkowitz, who manages the $11 billion Fairholme fund and was recently named
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To My Way of Thinking: Some Average American Questions for Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
Chief Justice John G. Roberts told students Tuesday night that, according to the LA Times, he found the criticism of the Supreme Court during Obama's State of the Union address "very troubling."
When asked about this Tuesday, Roberts said the
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Credit-card firm offers reward points for volunteering...
American Express has launched a program that gives members credit-card reward points for volunteering, The New York Times reported March 10 (see credit card story).
Billionaires like Pierre Omidyar and George Soros are making millions of dollars in
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'Today' Praises Bank of America's New Overdraft Policy, Fails to Explore Negative Side of Coming Regulation
NBC reports BofA's changes to 'repair' image ahead of federal Credit CARD Act.
Business & Media Institute
3/12/2010 4:43:07 PM
On March 10, Forbes’ David Randall provided some information about bank reactions to the legislation that NBC ignored: “Bank
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Worldâs Billionaires Grew 50 Percent Richer in 2009
Andre Damon writes: 2009 will be remembered by millions of ordinary people as the year they lost their job, their house, or the prospect of an education. For the rich, however, it was a bonanza.
The world’s billionaires saw their wealth grow by 50
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‘Smart Trade Group’- Worldwide Economics– (China’s Comments On Gold)...
2010-03-14 07:02:07 - ‘Smart Trade Group’: Gold considered not a primary investment for diversification of vast reserves.
of gold, were called “implausible” by one of the sources who cited the fact that China is the world’s largest producer
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How to make economics behave better
: The recent announcement by George Soros of the Initiative for New Economic Thinking is exciting for the future of economic science. This is because it holds the possibility of giving new impetus to the exploration of alternative strands of thought
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Hedge Funds Fail When ‘Rock Stars’ Are in Charge: Matthew Lynn
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- The ideal hedge fund should be like a good local restaurant: reliable, high-quality, a loyal group of customers, and unknown to the rest of the world.
Pierre-Henri Flamand is just the latest star trader who should remember
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Global Stocks Bull Market Gathering Steam
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010 Mar 17, 2010 - 10:11 AM
As far as the technical picture goes, it is notable that the market's breadth is extremely strong and the Advance/Decline line on the NYSE has broken out to a new high. Furthermore, the
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Is Patriotism Dangerous? Publicly Funded NPR Wants You To Think So
Public supported National Public Radio (NPR) posted a report on March 17 during its “All Things Considered” radio show that warns its listeners that “patriot groups” are dangerous and are apparently increasingly prone to attacking government officials
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McClatchy News Whacks Conservatives for Objecting to Ten-Year-Old ObamaCare Lobbyist
Les Blumenthal of the McClatchy News Service wrote up another story on 11-year-old Marcelas Owens advocating for the liberal cause of nationalizing health care. But this time, it was an attack on conservative talk show hosts.
Marcelas Owens, whose
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Anita Moncrief: How ACORN Paved the Way for the Obama Regime and Socialized Health care
As
patriots from across America prepare to descend on Washington, DC to
protest the government takeover of health care, the Obama administration
is touting the impending vote in the House of Representatives as
“historic.” Progressive organizations have
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India is the place where the world has to invest: Purnendu Chatterjee
"India and China have 2.5 billion people. If we figure out how to design drugs that are not using the model of the US drug discovery system, then we can even solve the world's problems," said the founder of The Chatterjee Group, based in Mumbai and New
