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Huffington Post Readers' Picks: 10 Books That Predicted The Financial Crisis

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Debt, Depression, Economic Crash, Money, Economic Crisis, Karl Marx, Billionaires, France, Bailout, Finance, Financial Crisis, The Great Depression, Crash, Greenpsan, Slidepoll, Books News

We posted a list of eight books that predicted the economic crisis and as usual, our readers had their own ideas about what we should have recommended...

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Colorado Drunk Driving Increases; Most States See Decrease

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 12.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Blood Alcohol Content, Legal Limit, Alcohol Limit, Drunk Driving, Drinking and Driving, Cdot, Driving Death, Crash, Colorado DUI, Department of Transportation, Fatality, Bac, Denver News

WASHINGTON — Drunken driving fatality rates have fallen in 40 states and the District of Columbia, an encouraging sign that crackdowns are impro...

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Brad Pitt In Motorcycle Accident

TMZ | Posted 10.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: La, Motorcycle, Angelina Jolie, Los Angeles, Pitt Accident, Brad Pitt, Motorcycle Crash, Brad Pitt Crash, Jolie, Pitt Crash, Brad Pitt Accident, Angelina, Injured, Motorcycle Accident, Crash, Pitt Falls Off Bike, Pitt Falls Off Motorcycle, Entertainment News

TMZ has learned Brad Pitt was involved in a minor motorcycle accident moments ago in Los Angeles. A witness at the scene tells us Pitt was trying to ...

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Recent Gmail "Crash" Forces Spammers to Awkwardly Approach Potential Customers in Person

Ben Berkon | Posted 11.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Comedy, Technology, Comedy News, Gmail, Crash, Ben Berkon, Penis Enlargement, Google, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

"If this is a trend [with Google], I don't know how I'm going to convince people that 'gorgeous sluts are waiting to meet you,'" said an anonymous spammer.

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Car Crash VIDEO: Pickup Truck Runs Red Light Causing Spectacular Crash

Posted 08.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Car Crash Video, Car Crash Running Red Light, Car Crash, Crime, Crash, Home News

This pickup truck doesn't even try to brake for this upcoming red light. Instead, he drives full speed ahead into the intersection with disastrous re...

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Forever Four -- A Tiny Life Taken By An Elderly Driver

Casey Sherman | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Elderly Drivers, Crash, Traffic Accidents, Living News
Casey Sherman

Drivers over the age of 85 are four times more likely to kill someone on the road than an inexperienced teenager fresh out of Driver's Ed. class.

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We're Running Our World Like a Ponzi Scheme!

Matthew Stein | Posted 05.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Sustainability, Bernard Madoff, Ecology, Financial Meltdown, Crash, Apocalypse, Peak Oil, Climate Change, Green News
Matthew Stein

If our world is to maintain its current rate of oil consumption, then we would need to find and develop a Saudi Arabia's worth of oil every year for the next year or two from now to eternity.

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Red River Rising: How to Survive the Floods of 2009

Ben Sherwood | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Bayleigh Stovall, Floods, Lateral Force, El Dorado, Water, River, The-Survivors-Club, Survive, Red River, Kansas, Crash, Safety Tips, Living News
Ben Sherwood

Believe it or not, flooding is the #1 cause of weather-related fatalities in this country. Sure, tornadoes and hurricanes get a lot of attention, but flooding kills the most.

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In Cramer We Trust?

Mike Papantonio | Posted 04.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Cnbc, Air America Radio, Journalism, Jon Stewart, Stock Market, Mike Papantonio, Larry Kudlow, Financial, The Daily Show, Ring of Fire, Crash, Housing Market, Jim Cramer, Pundit, Media News
Mike Papantonio

Most of the pundit misinformation occurred because investigative reporting in the news industry is dead. This new breed of financial TV pitchmen weren't paid to ask tough questions.

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Barack and Slumdog

Nathan Gardels and Mike Medavoy | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

Read More: The Academy Awards, u.s. Foreign Policy, Smart Power, Award Season, Hillary Clinton, Oscars, American Image, Awards Shows, Days of Our Lives, Slumdog Millionaire, Crash, Barack Obama, World News
Nathan Gardels and Mike Medavoy

If politics in the information age is about whose story wins, then, given this reality, America's storytellers -- Hollywood -- have a starring role in defining America's presence globally.

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 03.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
John Farr

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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The Man Who Sold Crash to the Academy

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 02.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lionsgate, The New York, Tad Friend, Oscars, Marketing, Good Luck Chuck, Crash, Academy Awards, Ted Palen, Movies, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Apparently Hollywood filmmakers aren't offering enough wish fulfillment. That's where marketers come in. They lie to us about the lie. If the film is crap, they figure out ways to get us to eat it.

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The Crash of Flight 1549: Maybe the Best Metaphor for 2009 We Could Hope For

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 02.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Wall Street Crash, Stock Market Crash, Positive Thinking, Hope, Market Crash, US Airways Crash, Airplanes, Hudson River Plane Crash, Plane Crash, Faith, 2009, Crash, Chesley B. Sully Sullenberger, Home News
Raymond Leon Roker

Maybe the story of this jet crash is exactly the real life fable we needed seared into our nation's consciousness. What if yesterday's "miracle" was a perfect metaphor for 2009?

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The Great Depression, The New Deal, World War II and the Crash of '08

Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Energy, Depression, Wall Street Crash, Economy, Deficits, New Deal, Green, Bubble, World War II, Crash, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

Let's start with what everyone can agree on. There was a Great Depression, then the New Deal, then World War II. Also, that America emerged from tha...

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The Fall of a Free Market Prophet

Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Economics, Economy, Henry Waxman, Ronald Reagan, Karl Marx, Salvation Boulevard, George Bush, Objectivist, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Alan Greenspan, Jesus Christ, Bubble, Real Estate, Crash, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

The most interesting, and perhaps the most important, moment in philosophy in the last decade occurred on October 28, 2008, in a hearing of the House ...

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TAX CUTS: THEOLOGY, FACTS & TOTALLY F**KED

Larry Beinhart | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Taxes, Depression, Tax Cuts, Bubble, Recession, Economy, Crash, Housing Bubble, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

TAX CUTS: THEOLOGY, FACTS & TOTALLY F**KED THE MYTH ...

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Too Big to Fail and Too Small to Matter

Norman Solomon | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jobs Program, Welfare, Prison Industry, Aig, Corporate America, Nuclear Weapons, Wall Street, Bailout, New Deal, Economy, Stock Market, Franklin Roosevelt, Corporate State, Warfare State, Crash, Politics News
Norman Solomon

These times provide a crash course on the corporate state: If a company like AIG is too big to fail, the government will rescue it. Mere pe...

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The Legacy of TWA Flight 800

Robert Davey | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jet Fuel, Faa, TWA Flight 800, Explosions, Boeing, Terrorism, Federal Aviation Administration, Regulation, Airplanes, Fbi, Ntsb, Qaddafi, Disasters, FAA Safety, Crash, Politics News
Robert Davey

Whether the FAA has the nerve to impose a new expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars per aircraft remains to be seen. Whether the rule is necessary is another question.

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"Crash" Producer Loses Legal Fight For An Oscar

AP | Posted 04.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Bob Yari, Crash, The Oscars, The Academy Awards, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court has ruled that a producer of the movie "Crash" can't sue to get an Academy Award retroactively. Bob Ya...

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'Crash' Coming to Starz As a TV Series

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Crash, Crash TV Show, Paul Haggis, Starz, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — The Oscar-winning "Crash" is coming to TV as a drama series this year. The 13-episode, one-hour series will air on cable's Starz as ...

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Passenger Jet Crashes In Thailand, 100 Feared Dead

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Airline, Jet, Thailand, Crash, Home News

A passenger plane heading to one of Thailand's leading tourist destinations crashed Sunday as it tried to land in heavy rain, splitting in two as it w...

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