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There has been little definitive discussion of the actual benefits of the Treasury’s new program that will fund the purchase of toxic assets from banks using federal money, and then allowing...
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A recent analysis reveals that Arizona is the state that wastes the most food.
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Municipal solid waste management (MSW) is the most important service a city or state or nation can provide. MSW, or trash, is waste generated from companies, buildings, institutions, small...
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In rather a statement of the obvious, Volkswagen said today that market conditions in Europe had become noticeably tougher and that they likely would not get better in the near future. However,...
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China’s five year economic plan is as ambitious as any laid out by the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s. The Chinese have set a 7% GDP growth target for each year though 2015. Plans announced at...
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Most of the news yesterday was dominated by the news that Charles Gibson would leave as anchor of the ABC Evening News and be replaced by Diane Sawyer. Since almost no one under 60-years-old watches...
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If the primary motivation of the rich is greed, then the OPEC member states are no exception. Now that oil prices have begun to drop, so has talk of cutting supply."The market is oversupplied by at...
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By John Tamny of Forbes Despite a collapsed dollar at all-time lows when compared with gold and nearly every major foreign currency, U.S. Federal Reserve officials are quite sanguine about...
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One of the nice things about writing down assets is that they often get to be written up later. Big banks and insurance companies have something to look forward to beyond these dismal days of low...
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A recent study by the real estate website Redfin pointed out that 25% of Americans would like to move from where they live now. That may be the highest figure ever. The city where the most people in...
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More than 820 million people around the world — just over 11% of the global population — suffer from hunger, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). At the...
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Poll a large number of fliers about what they want in an airline, and the answer will be leg room. Airline seats have shrunk for years, at least in coach. Travelers believe it has gone too far.
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Source: courtesy Boeing Co.Who wants to fly on Boeing Co.’s (NYSE: BA) crippled 787 Dreamliner, once the company has sorted out dangerous problems with one of the batteries that operates the plane?...
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The FCC issued its Eighth Broadband Progress Report, which it has to do annually according to Section 706 the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The core reason for the effort is to show whether...
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