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There has been much moaning, air-sucking, and outrage about the $700 billion that the U.S. government is thinking of throwing away on rich New York bankers who have been ripping us off for the past few years and then letting greed drive their businesses...
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Iceland has indeed bailed out Glitnir. But here’s the thing: Iceland’s credit default swaps are now suggesting that the sovereign itself is a distressed...
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Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. says its third-quarter earnings plunged 52 percent due to sharply lower prices, weaker demand and higher costs.
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Two things rule the financial world: Making money and figuring out ways to make more of it. That’s why some on Wall Street are sure to figure out how to profit...
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The misery worsened on Wall Street Tuesday, with stocks piling on the losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the Dow Jones industrials to more...
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Fast-food company Yum Brands Inc. said Tuesday its third-quarter profit grew by 5 percent, led by surging sales in its China operations that offset a decline in U.S....
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The company with the nation’s largest chain of Chevrolet dealerships violated federal labor law when it fired thousands of employees last month, according to a...
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Among all the profiles on MySpace, the social networking site’s users have uploaded almost 4 billion photos. Now through an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co.,...
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Wall Street sank further Tuesday, extending its heavy losses as enthusiasm over Federal Reserve efforts to inject confidence into credit markets gave way to concerns...
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The head of Frontier Airlines says he’s pleased with the business generated by a Denver-to-Aspen service launched in April by subsidiary Lynx Aviation.
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For years, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s scrappy image was best summed up by an insult that founder Jerry Sanders lobbed against rivals: “Real men have...
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Regional carrier Mesa Air Group Inc. says it has a tentative contract with its pilots union after 10 months of negotiations.
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Government data show consumer borrowing fell in August for the first time in more than a decade as households, battered by rising job layoffs and the worsening economy,...
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Americans’ retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress’ top budget analyst estimated Tuesday.
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Oil prices rebounded slightly Tuesday, hovering near $89 a barrel after some stability returned to the shaky financial system and encouraged investors to cautiously...
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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:
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U.S. Internet advertising revenue dipped slightly in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, which likely is a ripple effect from the bad economy given...
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Even in the midst of a severe meltdown on Wall Street, Federal Reserve officials at their September meeting believed the risks from weaker growth and higher inflation...
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Here’s the scenario: It’s Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty.
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With stock markets sinking and fear of recession rising, what’s the affluent consumer to do? Neiman Marcus hopes a few of them will escape the grim headlines by...
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The top congressional budget analyst says pension plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months.
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The Canadian Grand Prix was dropped from the 2009 calendar on Tuesday, leaving North America without a Formula One race.
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Foodmaker Kraft Foods Inc. said Monday it is cutting 400 jobs in North America to reduce costs.
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We apparently have an extra $700 billion of taxpayer money to spend in an effort to improve our economy. How are we planning to spend it? We are going to give it to...
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Most people, when they think of African-American Muslims, think of the “Nation of Islam.” Certainly, there is an historical importance to how Islam took...
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The United States government has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into private banks and insurance companies to essentially save the United States and world...
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Michelle Obama is now giving advice on how to vote in the presidential election. If the advice was based on the issues, that would be one thing. But her opinion is as...
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Just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, Cuba once played the role of America’s tropical playground. Ernest Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea”...
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Situated between Algeria and Libya along the Mediterranean, the tiny North African Republic of Tunisia is not a nation known for making headlines. But its small size...
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I’m not joking about this: in the wake of her catastrophic performance in the Katie Couric interview, Sarah Palin has set expectations so low that she is very...
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A pinkish tract of bedrock on the eastern shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay contains the oldest known rocks on Earth, formed 4.28 billion years ago, not long after the...
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I read the story as reported by the Dayton Daily News, but this was after I had received an email written by a friend of some of the victims of these American...
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Curlin became the first horse in North America to top $10 million in career earnings, winning the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup on Saturday at sloppy Belmont Park.
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There seems to be a lot of disappointment that the candidates did not attack each other more, or start shouting at each other, though Jim Lehrer clearly meant to get...
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The George W Bush administration’s US$700 billion no-accountability scheme, globally, informally dubbed “cash for trash”, is making all the headlines....
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Henry Kissinger was no amateur when it came to illegally bombing and invading countries that he and the evil President Nixon considered did not meet American...
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It seemed as if the global economy were headed for the kind of crash we haven’t seen since 1929. All the elements for a great financial meltdown and economic...
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The nativist hate-o-sphere is at it again. After blaming legal immigrants for causing global warming, now illegal immigrants are facing the brunts of their latest...
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I was checking out some of the blogs yesterday and came across an article at Muslim Matters that quite frankly turned my stomach. Its not entirely clear who authored...
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How do Muslims see Barack Hussein Obama? They have three choices: either as he presents himself – someone who has “never been a Muslim” and has...
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