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  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 136
  The [European] Commissions Statement of Objections reveals a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source dynamics. It is well understood by those knowledgeable about open source software that because MySQL is open source, it cannot be controlled by anyone. That is the whole point of open ...
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• Pound tumbles after Fitch issues triple-A rating warning

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Ratings agencys reminder of longer-term issues facing the UK destabilises foreign exchange markets The pound fell sharply today after ratings agency Fitch warned that Britain was "potentially most at risk" of losing its triple-A sovereign debt rating. Britains ballooning budget deficit has caused similar warnings ...
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• Are the teachings of Jesus a ‘Good Guide’ to life? Not Really…

  
  Ramblings from Red Rose — Authority: 118
  David Cameron , Conservative Party leader and for all intents and purposes our next prime minister, gave an interview about his faith, which was picked up by Christian Today . In the article he is quoted as saying: I think that it’s perfectly possible to live a good life without having faith, by which I mean a ...
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• The Fall of the Berlin Wall, The Money Shot

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 148
  Freiheit! Or as you Americans like to say... Freedom. Berlin Wall Dominos Toppled 9.11.09 from Nyc Labrets on Vimeo.
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• State of the Stimulus

  
  AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online — Authority: 674
  One reason unemployment continues to rise may be that stimulus funds did not target high-unemployment states.
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• Gordon Brown in secret push to sell Tobin tax to City

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • FSA backs prime minister over tax on transactions • Global revenues could reach as high as £420bn Gordon Brown is secretly attempting to persuade some of the Citys leading figures to speak out in support of his plan for a new international tax on banking. Despite furious opposition from bank lobbyists and ...
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• The Economic Break Point

  
  Voyons-potsdemiel — Authority: 103
  In the November 6th opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Kimberley A. Strassel suggests that U.S. politics have reached a tipping point: voter dissatisfaction with administration policies is now undermining Democrat party support to the point where members of congress are increasingly unwilling to vote the party ...
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• SAG President Joins AFL-CIO Executive Council

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
      Ken Howard         The AFL-CIO Executive Council today welcomed a new member, Ken Howard, president of the Screen Actors ( SAG ). Howard, who was elected to lead the actor’s union in September 2009, replaces former SAG President Alan Rosenberg. Convening for a one-day meeting in ...
  20 hours ago

• What Is Inflation and How Do You Measure It?

  
  Veritas Vos Liberabit — Authority: 437
  What Is Inflation and How Does One Measure It? by Michael Shedlock To understand inflation, one must first understand what money is and how to measure it. Please read What is Money and How Does One Measure It? before attempting to understand what follows. Unfortunately there is no general agreement as to the ...
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• Browns spending cuts must not polarise Britain any further

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The gap between low-paid, low-skilled workers and high earners is already too great Despite much talk of a return to growth, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics did not give the government or the economists the headlines they were hoping for. Rather than providing evidence of the ...
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• Open letter to Bernie Fraser

  
  John Quiggin — Authority: 568
  Dear Bernie Fraser, As you may be aware, I have been very critical of the “Myths vs Facts” booklet which is, as far as I know, the only document released by the Queensland government to present its case for sales of public assets. In a recent statement reported in the Courier-Mail, Treasurer Andrew Fraser said ...
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• A new era of fiscal responsibility | Ruth Richardson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 154
  If the UK fails to get public expenditure back to a sustainable level, and restore a low tax regime, it risks decades of stagnation Where did this fiscal crisis start? Most certainly, it is not just a function of the credit crisis. Decades of political denial and then delusion were the mothers and fathers of this ...
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• 20 years ago today

  
  CaroLINES — Authority: 139
  Sergeant Pepper came to stay... Well, he didnt. 20 years ago today, the Berlin Wall came down. What a moment! The world looked askance and asked "could this be happening?" The coincidence of Hungarian foreign policy and the East German powers-that-be neglecting to tell a minister that communism wasnt dead. It ...
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• Why Won’t the President Just Create the Jobs?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  The Washington Post’s Alec MacGillis asks a rather provocative question in today’s Outlook section: “Why won’t Obama give you a job?” The article challenges the Administration’s claim that “the stimulus is working” and argues that the Administration could have done or be doing better for the ...
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• Lets Have a Grownup Conversation About Climate Change: Pembina Institute to Harper Government

  
  One Woman. One Blog. — Authority: 106
  Denying Canadas Environmental Truths, (The Toronto Star, November 8, 2009) is another must-read. But be forewarned: youll free frustrated as youre reminded, yet again, of how far Canada has strayed from its once-proud record of environmental leadership -- and how far out of synch the Canadian government is with ...
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• Dickensian America: The "Haves" and the "Have-Nots"

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 611
  I read somewhere recently, perhaps in Rolling Stone Magazine, that rap music was never the cause of violence, obscenity and despair in the ghetto -- but rather only its symptom. Did the ghettos of America start producing these shocking and ugly lyrics because the people who wrote them only wanted to be iconoclastic ...
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• Transaction tax figures start to add up for Gordon Brown

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Levying a "transaction tax" on the frenzied activities of City traders and their rivals in the worlds financial markets is not a new idea, but it may be one whose time has come. American economist James Tobin originally proposed the tax – levied at up to 1%, on foreign exchange transactions – in the 1970s, to ...
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• Letters: Home owners have destroyed free market

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  It is ironic that when Will Hutton (Comment) points out that the private sector cannot do everything, it is now regarded as controversial, almost counterintuitive. The previous, postwar consensus centred on a mixed economy when the deficiencies of one sector were remedied by the other. But this did not survive the ...
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• Secret Labour plan to axe spending on youth training

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Leak reveals cuts of £350m • Business fury over jobs plan Gordon Brown stands accused today of misleading the public over his much-vaunted plans to help young people through the recession. Leaked documents show the government is planning drastic cuts for its flagship plan to train a new generation of ...
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• Gordon Brown backs radical plan to transform global banking system

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  A long-time supporter of a financial transactions tax says the prime minister has finally realised that the taxpayer should no longer foot the bill for banking crises and also suffer their fallout Campaigners for a global tax on financial transactions to reduce the size and volatility of Big Finance, and to encourage ...
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