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  The Debt Ceiling: From We The People, to We The Suckers
  The Straight up, no-nonsense 411 on The Debt Ceiling Issue
  by dorian89 / on Jun 3, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “billion”

 

• Airbus wins $7.5 billion A350 order from Air France-KLM

  
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  PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus won an order for 25 A350-900 aircraft from Franco-Dutch carrier Air France-KLM worth $ 7.5 billion at list prices, the planemaker said at the Paris Airshow on Wednesday. The airline also took a further 25 options on the planes, Airbus said. The aircraft will come into service at Air France ...
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• Facebook Hits 1 Million Active Advertisers

  
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  After hitting the 1 billion user mark in May, Facebook is now celebrating a new milestone. The social network has announced that it now has more than 1 million active advertisers. Facebook attributes this growth, not to big brands and marketers who have been using the Facebook platform to advertise for years, but ...
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• AIRSHOW-UPDATE 1-Boeing launches 787-10 with $30 billion of orders

  
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  PARIS (Reuters) – Boeing launched the 787-10 version of its flagship Dreamliner aircraft at the Paris Airshow on Tuesday with 102 firm orders worth nearly $ 30 billion at list prices. The news came after rival Airbus clinched an $ 11.5 billion order from UK budget airline easyJet for 135 A320neos, including 35 ...
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• Oil prices stay steady before 2-day US Fed meeting

  
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  BANGKOK (AP) — The price of U.S. benchmark oil rose slightly Tuesday, a day after briefly touching a nine-month high, as traders awaited the start of a Federal Reserve policy meeting. Benchmark oil for July delivery rose 5 cents to $97.82 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York ...
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• FDI into China rises in Jan-May: govt

  
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  Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China rose during the first five months of this year, the government announced on Tuesday, paced by strong increases from the European Union and United States. Incoming FDI, which excludes financial sectors, rose 1.0 per cent to US$47.6 billion (HK$369.4 billion) from January ...
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• EU, US leaders launch trade talks, France digs in on culture

  
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  The United States and the European Union launched talks on Monday to create one of the world’s most ambitious free-trade zones, as France again underscored its determination to protect its movies and culture. A trans-Atlantic free trade agreement was first considered three decades ago but was knocked down by France ...
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• China foreign minister’s new ride: the Mao Zedong-approved limousine

  
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  China’s foreign minister has a new ride. In a ministerial first in more than three decades, Wang Yi has chosen a locally manufactured Red Flag limousine, the same brand Mao Zedong rode to inspect parades. “Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi’s official car is a Red Flag H7 sedan,” the ministry wrote in a ...
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• Macau corruption trial opens without defendant tycoon Joseph Lau

  
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  Macau’s Court of First Instance on Monday began a corruption trial involving Hong Kong tycoons Joseph Lau Luen-hung and Steven Lo Kit-sing, despite Lau being absent from the court for a fourth session in a row. Lau’s lawyers asked the court that they be allowed to represent Lau in his absence. They did not explain ...
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• Wendi Deng called ‘evil’ and ‘admirable’ on China’s Weibo after Murdoch divorce news

  
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  The highly publicised divorce between News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch and his third wife, Wendi Deng, has divided the online community, especially after a BBC correspondent familiar with the matter revealed on Twitter that Murdoch’s reasons for divorce were “jaw dropping”. See the original post here: ...
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• Telefonica denies report of $93 billion offer from AT&T

  
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  MADRID (Reuters) – Telefonica said on Monday it had not received any indication of interest from AT&T , following a Spanish newspaper report that the government had halted a 70 billion-euro ($ 93 billion) offer from the U.S. company. An AT&T representative told the government about the companys plans to buy ...
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• The Global Demand for LED Commercial Lighting in 2013 to Reach US $1.059 Billion

  
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  According to the report from Taiwan Central News Agency, research institutes forecast that the global demand for LED commercial lighting (including office, retail store, hotel, etc.) in 2013 will reach $ 1.059 billion, a substantial increase of 50% over 2012. In accordance with reports, in view of the commercial ...
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• U.S. Postal Service lost $8.5 billion in 2009

  
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  Despite massive cuts, the U.S. Postal Service lost $8.5 billion in 2009. (Photo Credit: CC BY/Kevin Dooley/Flickr) The number of people who claim to never use postal “snail mail” has increased tremendously as e-mail, text messaging, instant messaging and online social networking have all but extinguished the art ...
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• DirecTV to acquire Hulu for more than $1 billion, sources say

  
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  DirecTV is expected to acquire Hulu by the end of the month as part of an acquisition deal that could be worth more than a billion dollars. Multiple sources have told PandoDaily that a deal is imminent and the satellite provider is the likely victor following months (or years, depending... … Read More
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• SEE How South Africans hijack $20billion Dollar ship bunkering business in Nigeria

  
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  The Nigerian Licensed Ship Chandlers Association a week ago took a swipe at the Directorate of Petroleum Resources DPR, apex regulatory organ of the downstream segment of the Nigerian petroleum industry over hitches connected with ship bunkering regulation in Nigeria, which gives South African firms a benefit over ...
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• Tracking Sensex: Top losers, gainers of the week

  
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  By Ankush Arora and Aditya Kalra Gains of 1.9 percent on Friday helped the Sensex recover some of its losses but the benchmark still ended down 1.3 percent for the week. The index ended in the red for three of five trading sessions this week. Indian markets largely ignored Fitch’s rating outlook upgrade and ...
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• Natural Disasters Cost Billions Of Dollars

  
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  Although hearing that natural disasters cost us billions in money isn’t exactly a surprise, the latest report from The National Climate Data Center is shocking. The findings published by the NCDC reveal that, due to events like Hurricane Sandy, 2012 has been the second costliest year for America since the 1980s. ...
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• 11 Billion People By 2100? New UN Report Predicts Faster Than Expected Population Rise — But Does The Report Ignore Inevitable And Approaching Realities?

  
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  11 billion people in the world by the year 2100? That’s what a new report from the United Nations is predicting. According to the report, that figure is about 8% higher than was previously predicted (in 2011), with the higher prediction being the result of fertility rates in Africa declining more slowly than was ...
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• $ 300 Billion Reasons to boost the Special Relationship – the G8 and World Investment Conference

  
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  The major G8  discussion this year is the Free Trade Deal between the EUROPEAN UNION and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA…. It is a combined benefit of more than $ 300 Billion per year, for both economies and is a natural escalation of the Open Trade shared between the two GREATEST DEMOCRATIC ECONOMIES of the world. ...
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• National Budget 2013/2014 – Sports Allocated Sh7 Billion

  
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  By Jane Nambi While reading the financial budget for 2013/2014, Finance Minister, Maria Kiwanuka called unto the country to help the country’s sports men and women in their goal to move ahead in their respective careers. Paying tribute to gold winner, Stephen Kiprotich and recognizing the role that Uganda Cranes is ...
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• Lawmaker accuses Google of dodging taxes

  
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  An influential committee of British lawmakers accused search company Google of dodging its taxes on Thursday in a scathing report that said the US Internet company took on highly contrived arrangements serving no purpose other than to avoid paying its fair share. The report came after testimony by Google Vice ...
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