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• Congress Approves $500 Billion For Monument To Human Folly

  
  The Melting Pot Project — Authority: 434
  Normally fake news is a no-no around here, but this story is just too good a follow-up to the National Money Hole to ignore: WASHINGTON—In recognition of mankinds inherent propensity for tragically foolish decisions, Congress allocated nearly $500 billion Monday...
  19 hours ago

• What do you guys think about this economic stimulus package?

  
  Financial Planning — Authority: 435
  I mean COME ON! is George W. Bush stupid?! what are people going to do with about 0. IT IS NOTHING. Most people are not going to spend it, they’re going to pay some of their debt. This is so stupid, now the country is going to be greatly in debt by borrowing billions [...]
  21 hours ago

• Barney Frank/Ed Schultz In Liberal Lovers Quarrel

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Disclaimer: were talking politics here, not personal stuff . . . If theres a bigger sourpuss in Congress than Barney Frank, I wouldnt want to meet him. On MSNBC this evening, the dyspeptic Member from Massachusetts got into it with, of all people, Ed Schultz. You might think the two libs would make beautiful ...
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• Fibonacci Forex: The Basics

  
  Currency Forex Trading Blog — Authority: 154
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• How much “real wealth” has been created through M&A, Junk Bonds, HFT, Structured Finance, Derivatives?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  As opposed to how much has capital been stirred around and siphoned off? How efficient are our markets today? 30% interest on credit cards – is that efficient for the consumer or small business owner? Huge reductions in the money market and commercial paper markets. Is that efficient for corporate cash flows? How ...
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• Can Selling Virtual Products on The Internet Be The Next Success Story?

  
  The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP — Authority: 571
  It seems that the next success stories we will be hearing about on the Internet is about those who are selling virtual products. What are virtual products? They are illustrations of products they are being sold on places such as Facebook. Picture this if you will. Someone on Facebook has a birthday and you send them a ...
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• 10 Neat Facts About Carl Sagan

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 790
  Carl Sagan with a model of the Viking Lander. Photo via Wikipedia I miss Carl Sagan . Sagans enthusiasm for science and his knack for translating difficult scientific concepts into simple explanations that many can understand, made him a popular figure. He was an ambassador for ...
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• Hellohello.net,Globalgroup

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 576
  Social networking is an exciting place to meet new people with like minded ideas. It has become a great lead resource for those of us that are looking for great people to talk to.  As society embraces these social networks, enter hellohello.net.THE CONCEPTHelloHello.Net: A Social Networking Portal that has most of ...
  2 days ago

• Will the Public Ever Learn They Need to Be Financially Educated?

  
  Fisher Funding — Authority: 156
  Nothing illustrates this point of the public needing a practical financial education more dramatically than our present worldwide financial debacle and recession caused by the 3 ring circus and yet they are the major recipients of the TARP bailout money, not us the taxpayer. In both directions, they’ve made billions ...
  2 days ago

• According to the 2rd qtr. OCC Derivative Report, the 5 largest holders of derivatives (commercial banks) hold 97% of all derivatives.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  Those commercial banks are JP Morgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Bank of America (BAC), Citi (C) and Wells Fargo (WFC). The table below shows the total amounts of assets (in $billions), total amount of derivatives (in $billions), the percentage increase/decrease in assets from the previous quarter, the percentage ...
  2 days ago

• Games That Nobody Plays Anymore: Prototype and Infamous Double-Whammy

  
  Platform Nation — Authority: 444
  I don’t see it. It’s entirely coincidental that a free-roaming action/adventure title launched in the same month as another free-roaming action/adventure title. Debates were formed, the Obama administration was undecided and scientists spent billions of dollars researching a decision. There never was a decision, ...
  3 days ago

• RBS Banksters Cash in Again at Taxpayers’ Expense

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  The banksters at the RBS Group, which controls Natwest, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank, have just cashed in again to the tune of £25.5 billion extra given to them by the Labour regime. The extra cash injection, announced this week by Chancellor Alistair Darling, brings the total amount of taxpayers’ ...
  3 days ago

• British PM revives global tax idea at G20 meet

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, Nov 7 (IANS) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Saturday resurrected the idea of the international community imposing a global tax on banks as a repayment for the billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money they have received from governments.The idea is said to mimic the so-called “Tobin tax” - a 0.1 ...
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• Porker of the Month: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 457
    Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) Porker of the Month for loading up her goodie bag just before Halloween as she prepares to leave the Senate to run for governor of Texas.  While claiming to be a fiscal conservative, the four-term senator requested 149 ...
  3 days ago

• New Rules May Force Banks to Acknowledge Losses

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  A controversial change in accounting rules this year has allowed banks to claim billions of dollars in additional earnings simply by tweaking their bookkeeping, greatly enhancing the appearance that the industry is returning to health. But accounting rule makers are considering further changes that could drain the ...
  4 days ago

• Wall Street gets it all: Bailouts, bonuses, first dibs on H1N1 vaccine

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: Company News , Economy , Healthcare When it comes to allocating scarce public resources, large corporations seem to have the upper hand in the US. We already know that many powerful companies, particularly the Wall Street investment banks, having gotten plenty of Washington cash. Now it looks like ...
  4 days ago

• 2010 will be a great spectacle even for the arty farty types

  
  Common Dialogue — Authority: 426
  South African sculptor Keith Calders Goalie bronze - one of eleven in his Footballer range FOOTBALL and art seem something of a misnomer, but for many the game of billions is the greatest art form of them all. While Picasso, arguably the greatest painter that ever lived, used brush strokes to bring his masterpieces ...
  4 days ago

• Is it time to panic?

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 112
  Baltimore-( TFN ):Time to panic? If you are part of the Obama administration the answer is yes. If you are an American investor, hold off on the freaking out for at least another month or so. With the nation’s unemployment rate officially in double-digit territory and the under-employed rate ready to the 20% mark, ...
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• Intel Accused of Giving Dell $6 Billion for Exclusivity

  
  Tech Mania — Authority: 431
  The state of New York has filed a lawsuit against Intel Corp. accusing the chip giant of paying billions of dollars to computer makers in order to discourage them from using microprocessors by Advanced Micro Devices(AMD). Dell alone allegedly received $6 billion dollars between 2002 and 2007 and sometimes those ...
  5 days ago

• Tips For Setting Up Your Google AdSense Account – 4 Part Series

  
  The MarketSecrets Blog — Authority: 131
  Setting up your Google AdSense account – Parts 1-4 Setting up your Google AdSense account – Part 1 (Enrollment form) For those of you new to the Adsense scene I wrote this quick start report to help get you off and running with Google Adsense. So, you have decided to go ahead and use Google AdSense for ...
  5 days ago

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