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YouTube - Crisis explainer
Great explanation of the financial crisis: Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch gives a bubbly explanation of the intricacies of collateralized debt obligations those financial instruments that got us into this financial mess.
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[Creator] Chris Anderson Downgrades "Long Tail" to Chocolate Teapot Status
"The end came quickly," as authors of morbid weepies like to say. On Monday WiReD magazine editor Chris Anderson effectively admitted game over for his "Long Tail", the idea he's been dragging so lucratively around the conference circuit for the past four years. In as many words, he downgraded ...
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Danish IT chief 'on the run', suspected of fraud
Interpol is seeking the arrest of the missing boss of a bankrupt Danish IBM reseller IT Factory on suspicion of frauds totalling $85m. Local police are also investigating a brutal attack on a reported business partner of Stein Bagger days before his disappearance. Danish daily Berlingske ...
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Reversing the Flow of Electronic Waste
The European WEEE legislation highlights the growing importance of reverse logistics in companies' environmental strategies. It's no longer enough to streamline the manufacture and delivery of products to customers. Manufacturers and retailers also need to think about how to collect and ...
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Activist moves homeless into foreclosures - Life- msnbc.com
Marie Nadine Pierre and her baby, Nennon, are squatting in a foreclosured house in Florida. A Miami activist who has been executing a bailout plan of his own around Miami's empty streets: He is helping homeless people illegally move into foreclosed homes. Rameau is an activist who has been ...
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Antioxidants are unlikely to prevent aging, study suggests
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Whoa Nellie! If this proves to be true (antioxidant aging improvement theory debunked!), how much money, research, and hope will have turned out to be wasted on antioxidants? How many pharma and health supplement companies that specialize in that "therapy" will suffer or even go under? -
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It's Official: U.S. In Yearlong Recession, Economy Fell Into Recession In December 2007, National Bureau Of Economic Research Says - CBS News
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Amazing, isn't it that during an election year the current administration and its party's candidate couldn't figure this out? Oh yeah - the economy was "fundamentally sound". Self-serving blindness, incompetence, or basically just "asleep at the wheel"? -
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Under Pressure [from banks and mortgage lobbyists], US Eased Lending Rules
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Yet more proof that the Bush administration - kowtowing to banks and mortgage lending lobbyists - was the real culprit in the subprime mortgage mess via their de-/no-regulation stance, and NOT Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, the Community Reinvestment Act, or Democrats [barely in control for two years] ... -
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Drug Companies Cook Books, Misleading Doctors
Comment added by JDP on 11/26/2008Ah yes - isn't it amazing how well the "invisible hand" of the market works in ensuring people (lives) over profits - NOT! The US is prosecuting two wars and imprisoning "enemy combatants" off shore without charges for killing fewer people (though maybe it was really the billions in financial ...
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[Creator] Chris Anderson Downgrades "Long Tail" to Chocolate Teapot Status