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Investors: Beware the Quackery of Economic Goats, Whitewashers and Charlatans

Ann Pettifor | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Carry-Trade, Unemployment, Jim O'Neill, Finance, Stock Market, Wages, Global Trade, Abby Joseph Cohen, Iceland Financial Crisis, Frederick Mishkin, Short Selling, Bubbles, Business News

Today -- as global trade lies dead, as unemployment rises, as wages and incomes plummet, as US consumption and investment falls -- share prices zoom upwards and commodity prices rock.

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How to Sell Your Maidenhead

E. Jean Carroll | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Virgin, Marketing, Short Selling, Money, Bubbles, Sex, Dennis-Hof, Bunny Ranch, Advice Column Elle, Advice Column, Selling Your Virginity, Living News

Why should I waste my purity on a "meaningful" college boyfriend or a saggy sugar daddy when I can receive a pot of gold all in one go?

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The Search for Normalcy

Robert Teitelman | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: New Normal, Great Panic of 2008, Normalcy, Risk Management, Post-Bubble, Great Recession, Bubbles, Risk, Financial TImes, Market Equilibrium, Businessweek, Business News

One view of "normal" has come out of the crisis stronger than ever: that "normal" doesn't exist at all, that the belief in market equilibrium has been effectively undermined.

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An Open Letter to Paul Krugman

David K. Levine | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Collateral Cycles, Fiscal Stimulus, Financial Crisis, Panics, Paul Krugman, Systemic Risk, Bank Bailout, Too Big to Fail, Economic Theory, Bubbles, Credit Cycles, Business News

Crises have been ubiquitous throughout history. While we can't forecast them we do know how to learn from them. And we certainly have a good idea what not to do in response.

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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Bob Marley, Evil, Bubbles, Bill Gates, Architecture, Dick Cheney, Dollar, Greed, Empathy, John Lennon, Wall Street, Ayn Rand, Bible, Artists, Morality, The Fountainhead, Republicans, Alan Greenspan, Ethics, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism, Republican Party, Jimi Hendrix, Politics News

To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.

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Who Isn't John Galt?

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Empathy, Artists, Dick Cheney, Ayn Rand, Dollar, Ethics, Republican Party, Greed, Bob Marley, Bible, Architecture, Bill Gates, Capitalism, Evil, John Lennon, Human Rights, Wall Street, The Fountainhead, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Jimi Hendrix, Bubbles, Republicans, Entertainment News

If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.

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How "The Beanie Baby Bubble" Explains The Housing Crisis

wsj.com | KAREN BLUMENTHAL | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Beanie Babies, Asset Bubbles, Bubbles, Housing Bubble, Business News

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Forget Ponzi Schemes: Try Venture Capital!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Marin County, Bubbles, Venture Capitalists, Start-Ups, Business News

I asked an investment banking friend of mine how many VC deals he knew of in the tech sector over the last ten years. A thousand, he said. And how many are still around? I inquired. Three.

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Michael Jackson's Animals: Where Are They Now?

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson Death, Pets, Chimpanzee, Zoo, Michael-Jackson-Animals, Neverland Ranch, Animals, Bubbles, Green News

Michael Jackson has left behind more than just his family and friends behind. The King of Pop also had an entourage of animals that he kept at his pri...

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Michael Jackson's Story: Can't Beat It

Jon Chattman | Posted 08.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, 1980s, Beat It, Joe Jackson, Bubbles, Oprah, Jackson Five, Lisa Marie, The Gloved One, Michael Jackson Death, Entertainment News

As legendary and iconic as he was and will forever be, he always got himself in some kind of trouble. Sadly, the biggest legacy he will have is the true potential he wasted when he was alive.

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Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing Of The Day: Moonwalking Critters (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.01.2009 | Comedy

Of all of Michael's famous moves, none has left as big an impact as the moonwalk. Even the animal world wants in on the action, and while they're not ...

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Rubbernecking: Charm School with Ricki Lake, Season Premiere

Holly Cara Price | Posted 06.12.2009 | Entertainment

One girl even said that, rather than go through this show again, "I'd rather eat my own face." Should be a wild ride.

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Vote Out Larry Summers

Naomi Klein | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Economic Policy, Vote Out Larry Summers, Larry Summers, Obama Economy, Obama Economic Advisers, Bubbles, Politics News

Summers represents an often overlooked cause of the global financial crisis: Brain Bubbles. Brain Bubbles need to be popped; Larry Summers needs to be stopped!

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Another Bubblectomy!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Bubbles, The Economy, The Hope Bubble, Wall Street, Hope, Business News

I read yesterday, as the idiot wind blew the market down another couple hundred points, that the final bubble had popped. The hope bubble. We had it for a time. Now it's gone.

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Bubble-Topia

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Commodities Speculation, Obama, Economy, Techcrunch, Bubbles, 2008 Presidential Race, Agriculture, Business News

Our national politics and economics have come to be defined by the inflation and violent pricking of bubble after bubble.

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