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Why The Market Gods Are Angry

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 10.04.2011

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Let's hope that this relative market pinprick got someone's attention at the White House, or on the tour bus. Because the market's tendency is to ratchet up the pain for those who fail to recognize its message.

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Dow Jones Barely Avoids Longest Losing Streak Since The 1970s

AP | DAVID K. RANDALL | Posted 10.03.2011

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NEW YORK — Stock indexes came back from deep losses in the morning and ended Wednesday with small gains. The Dow Jones industrial average avoide...

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Markets Drop On News Governments Will Collectively Tap Oil Reserves

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Market, Libya, Dow Jones, Energy-Reserves, Japan Earthquake, Muammar Gaddafi, High Energy Prices, Stock Market, Nasdaq, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Disruption, S&P 500, Video, Business News

NEW YORK - Oil prices crashed more than $8 to a four-month low on Thursday after the world's consumer nations said they would band together to aid...

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10 Companies That Will Save The U.S. Economy: 24/7 Wall Street

24/7 Wall Street | Posted 06.04.2011

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By 24/7 Wall Street: America lost its lead as the world's top manufacturer to China. That is in part the basis of the argument that China's Gross Dome...

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Protecting Your Post-Divorce Assets After Natural Disasters

Natalie Pace | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market, Pace, Saudi, War, Natalie, Earthquake, Iran, Nuclear, Nasdaq, Libya, Tsunami, Wall Street, Egypt, NataliePace.Com, Stock, Japan, Dow, Slidepollajax, Divorce News

Divorced parents, more than anyone, can feel extremely vulnerable during disasters, especially if you are counting on investments to help you shore up...

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U.S. Firms Growing Impatient With Chinese Bureaucracy, Survey Says

Reuters | Koh Gui Qing | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Koh Gui Qing BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. firms are increasingly vexed over growing Chinese red tape that prevents them from expanding quickly in Ch...

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Farmer's Second Act Puts Down Roots In Dayton, Ohio

Laura Avery | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Artichokes, Market, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Asparagus, Dayton, Farmers, Southern California, Phil Green, Green News

Farmer Phil Green's motivation, other than making a reasonable living for himself, is to give something back to a neighborhood where doing business with honest people brings a lifetime of rewards.

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Unemployment 'Math': Statistical Lies

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011

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Parents need to demand that their children learn math. Math literate citizens can will use analytical reasoning to see through the lies of government and the ridiculous insults from the mainstream media.

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Food Swap!

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market, Homemade Goods, Preserves, Canning, Canned Food, Food Exchange, Value, New Economy, Hand Crafted, Trade, Potluck, Community, Food Swap, Homemade Food, Swappers, Food Preservation, LA Restaurants, Food News

As many of of us approach the depths of winter, perhaps we might look at our homemade goods with a yearning for something different, something new to taste from someone else's pantry. Have you thought about a food swap?

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How Much Can a Business Grow? The Limitations of a Finite Economy

Steven Bulwa | Posted 05.25.2011

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While the market gets creative with new ways to justify higher valuations, as a company's size increases, growth becomes more difficult.

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The Earth-Buster Sale

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

Consumerism keeps this economy going, which is destroying life. This Christmas is selling everything.

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WATCH: Interview With Oscar Winning Director Of 'Inside Job'

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market, Oscar, New York, Money, Lehman, Economy, Meltdown, Worldwide, Dollars, Aig, Movie, Collapse, Politics, Merrill Lynch, Investment, Finance, Stock, Banking, Documentary, Banks, Ferguson, Charles Ferguson, Wall Street, American, International, Arts News

"When Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG collapsed together in a 48 hour period and we were all wondering if next week we'd be able to get money ...

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Weekly Audit: Foreclosuregate Hits Home

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Weekly Audit: Foreclosuregate Hits Homeby Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Earlier this month, Bank of America (BOA), the country's larges...

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Bull and Bear

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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On the Moral Depravity of Capitalism in 21 Tweets

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

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I've thought a lot about it & have concluded that market capitalism is actually conducive to evil. It's not just a talking point.

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What Glenn Beck Doesn't Understand About Biblical Social Justice

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jesus said that we should love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. I invited Beck to a civil and respectful conversation about the issues at stake here, but he has chosen a different path.

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Investigate This: Why Did the Market Tank?

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

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The finance industry's jargon keeps people from figuring out what's going on. Traders and brokers have come up such complex instruments that even financial journalists don't understand the markets.

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Credit Default Swaps Are Dangerous, US Taxpayers Are Still On The Hook

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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Derivatives are responsible for much of the interconnectedness between banks and other institutions that made the financial collapse accelerate in the...

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Elizabeth Warren and Goliath

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Elizabeth Warren, a good Methodist, warns: The banks are trying everything they can think of to kill financial reform. And we must not let them do that.

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Creating Change in the Midst of Crisis: Re-thinking Our Values

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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In past years at Davos, I often found myself in early morning optional sessions on social responsibility, in small rooms on the third floor of the c...

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Hot Timer Sees Stock Buying Stampede

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Real worry has a very short half-life on Wall Street of say three to six months. After every giant decline, there's an enormous rebound and the thing for investors to keep in mind is that we're still in one.

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Under Attack, Credit Raters Turn to the First Amendment

HuffPost Investigative Fund | By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Editor's note: This is the first of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. To help with the investigation, sign up ...

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Health Care Bill's Winners And Losers: Drug Makers To Benefit, Insurers Brace For Hit

Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY and GREG HITT | Posted 05.25.2011

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The drug industry stands to gain in a health-care overhaul by getting tens of millions of newly insured customers, while insurance companies -- especi...

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Obama Declares Himself President-For-Life (No Fooling!)

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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"I am ashamed at getting my stimulus bill passed so quickly. Republicans, those masters of bipartisanship, offered their sincere efforts to delay this bill for months and, I admit, I ignored them."

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A Fairness Issue

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

"Without justice, what are kingdoms but bands of robbers?" - St Augustine. I was surprised when Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) opened up his remarks before ...

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