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• 11-9-2009 (Mon Afternoon) Activities

  
  Comments for the Net — Authority: 136
  Goldman Sachs Head Says Banks Do ‘God’s Work’ - CNBC (Reuters) OPEC is increasing output at the fastest pace in two years, adding to near-record inventories and threatening speculators betting on $100 crude with losses - Bloomberg The silence of the bears — Market bears outnumber bulls by a wide margin. ...
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• The relative effectiveness of different stimulus waveforms in evoking VEMPs: Significance of stimulus energy and frequency

  
  COMD News — Authority: 451
  We compared the effectiveness of a series of different sound stimulus waveforms in evoking VEMPs in normal volunteers. The waveforms were clicks (0.1–0.8 ms), biphasic clicks (0.8 ms) and sine waves (1250 Hz, 0.8 ms and 500 Hz, 2 ms) with different peak intensity and duration but similar root mean square area. VEMP ...
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• Farmers jump for joy as milk prices go up but are they out of the woods yet?

  
  Aotearoa: a wider perspective — Authority: 429
  Let me start by saying that I’m sincerely happy for those farmers who rely on the price of milk  for their survival. This year at least they won’t go under if the prices hold. But what if they don’t. Our mainstream media tell us that we are over the recession. Fonterra’s forecast for the price of milk ...
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• (Minneapolis) Star Tribune to cut about 100 jobs (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  The Star Tribune is cutting another 100 jobs companywide to further shave costs after bankruptcy. The companys operating committee announced the cuts this morning, saying that the "cracking of our historical economic model and the current Great Recession have forced us to move quickly to make meaningful and difficult ...
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• IEDC acquires Grand Rapids site

  
  Howie Blog — Authority: 143
  Itasca Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) has finalized an agreement to purchase a former manufacturing site in Grand Rapids. The site features 400,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing and distribution space situated on 233 acres, and will serve as the new home of the proposed Itasca Eco Industrial Park. The sale is ...
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• The Beijing Wall

  
  China Bystander — Authority: 123
  The 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall is taken to mark the fall of communism, but more accurately it was the fall of the Soviet empire. Communist parties still rule in Cuba, North Korea and, of course, China. But the anniversary does prompt a couple of questions, why did communism not fall [...]
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• They Knew: Toxic Assets Almost Crashed Our Economy 10 Years Earlier

  
  BlackPerspective.net — Authority: 118
  Derivatives/credit default swaps/toxic assets or whatever form these over leveraged, wall street, backroom financial instruments come in; where nothing new to bankers, regulators or congress. A Lehman Brothers/Bear Stearns style collapse happened in 1998 and was only saved with a commercial bailout (as opposed to a ...
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• World markets get G-20 boost while dollar slides (AP)

  
  M0 — Authority: 161
  AP - World stock markets rose sharply Monday but the dollar fell after the Group of 20 rich and developing countries agreed to maintain their stimulus measures as long as economies remained weak. Read full story
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• FTSE 100 ends higher (AFP)

  
  M0 — Authority: 161
  AFP - The leading share index closed higher here on Monday on prospects for continued stimulus measures to underpin economic recovery in leading world economies. Read full story
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• FTSE 100 ends higher (AFP)

  
  M0 — Authority: 161
  AFP - The leading share index closed higher here on Monday on prospects for continued stimulus measures to underpin economic recovery in leading world economies. Read full story
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• Brazilian Real Rises on G-20 Stimulus

  
  Forex News — Authority: 480
  The Brazilian real was one of the most benefit currencies today with the Group of 20 statement indicating that stimulus measures to support the global economic recovery will be extended, increasing risk appetite among traders today that opted for assets in emergent markets.(...) Read the rest of Brazilian ...
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• Fighting in north Afghanistan kills 130 insurgents (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 514
  AP – Afghan and international troops killed more than 130 insurgents in six days of fighting in a once-stable area of northern Afghanistan that has seen a recent spike in Taliban attacks, NATO said Monday. It was some of the heaviest fighting in the north this year. Read the original post: (AP)"> ...
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• Stocks jumps as G20 says cheap money to continue (Reuters)

  
  M0 — Authority: 161
  Reuters - U.S. stocks jumped on Monday, extending gains from the previous week, on renewed risk-taking sentiment after the Group of 20 pledged to keep economic stimulus in place until a recovery was assured. Read full story
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• Monday serious and whimsical

  
  Alohapolitics.com — Authority: 116
  First the Whimsy: Rosie O’Donnell Says “F*ck” On Jimmy Fallon Show, Calls Glenn Beck “Carnival Barker” (VIDEO) And this is the serious. It is a article written by a French Banker that specializes in financing alternative energy projects on a global basis. Folks that are formulating energy policy for ...
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• Teachers & Taxes

  
  Vermont Tiger — Authority: 436
  There seems to be no relief in sight as the worst economic slump (alltogether now) since the Great Depression, continues grinding people –and their hopes –  into dust.  Unemployment has grown to more than 10% by official measurement and much more than that when you throw in people who have given up looking for ...
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• Schumer Calls for Review, as Millions in Stimulus Funds Aid Foreign Firms

  
  The Voice — Authority: 151
  U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Monday called for a “comprehensive” review of all renewable energy projects seeking funding from the economic stimulus package, following reports that $849 million in U.S. grants have gone to foreign wind companies in the past two months alone. Share This
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• Obama’s 10-percent Stimulus Failure

  
  Liberally Conservative — Authority: 119
  Last week the Obama administration issued a report purporting to show that the President’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan had saved or created exactly 640,329 jobs. Such a precise number for such a fuzzy concept as jobs “saved or created” immediately raised doubts about the veracity of the report in any ...
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• The Job Con

  
  Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian — Authority: 441
  The Job Con November 9th, 2009 National Review Editors The unemployment rate has hit 10.2 percent. All those laid-off Americans must be wondering why Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein still have jobs. Romer and Bernstein, economic advisers to the Obama administration, warned back in January that, unless ...
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• 11-9-2009 (Mon Morning) Activities

  
  Comments for the Net — Authority: 136
  U.S. stocks extended a global rally and the dollar slid after the Group of 20 nations agreed to maintain economic stimulus efforts. Commodities climbed, sending gold to a record above $1,100 an ounce - Bloomberg >>> Sarah Palin and the Dysfunctional Political Class — She may have been one of the most ...
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• UNH/UMass floating wind turbine gets stimulus money

  
  Granite Geek — Authority: 134
  A couple people are out sick at work (darn you, swine flu!) so I haven’t looked at my email very closely, so I missed the announcement from UNH about $700,000 in stimulus funds to test a floating 10-kilowatt wind turbine. So let’s give credit where it’s due: Mass High Tech noticed it and posted it . Here’s ...
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