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Airplane Crashes Into Wild Pig On Runway, Reveals Zimbabwe's Air Safety Failures

Times Online | Jan Raath | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Harare International Airport, Air Zimbabwe Plane, World News, Air Zimbabwe, Pig Strike, Harare, Inflation, Mugabe, Air Safety, Africa, Zimbabwe Infrastructure, Morgan Tsvangirai, Bird Strike, Plane Hits Pig, World News

It took a wild pig on the runway at Harare International Airport to reveal what many Zimbabweans have long feared: the country's Civil Aviation Author...

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Five Myths the Recession Taught Us

James Altucher | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Saving Money, Stocks, Inflation, Recession, Economy, Great Depression, Business News
James Altucher

During the course of the past few months, several myths came to bear on the struggling economy that will play out through 2010 to create enormous opportunities in the market and the economy.

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The Best Risk Reward Proposition

Alan Schram | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Dow Jones, Inflation, Dollar, Business News, Warren Buffett, Financial Crisis, Real Estate, Saving Money, Wal-Mart, S&P 500, Business News
Alan Schram

This will be a different kind of inflationary cycle. The dollar will decline, but Real estate prices will not be going up because few property owners can raise rents right now.

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Women's Wages Rose Faster Than Men's During Recession

Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Pay, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economy, Wages, Jobless, Jobs, Laid Off, Recession, Gender, Layoffs, Gender Equality, Unemployment, Inflation, Work, Salary, Business News

The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau...

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The Economic Recovery Continues

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Financial Crisis, Unemployment, Inflation, Financial Recovery, Business News
Hale

The details we learned this week about the economy add up to a simple story: the recovery is progressing. However, an economy the size of the U.S. is like a battleship; turning it around takes time.

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Surprise: Obama Isn't the Enemy of Seniors After All

Mark Miller | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Social Security, Inflation, Cost of Living, Seniors, Social Security Reform, Politics News
Mark Miller

Obama's endorsement of a one-time payment to Social Security recipients helps position him on the side of seniors at a time when many already are angry with him about health care reform.

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Reviving the Local Economy With Publicly-Owned Banks

Ellen Brown | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Florida, Deflation, Wall Street, Inflation, Derivatives, Banks, Federal Reserve, Credit Crunch, Bank Bailout, Business News
Ellen Brown

Despite trillions of dollars in bailout money, bank loans fell to their lowest rate since the onset of the Great Depression. Now that the Fed has done all they can, is it time for the states to step in?

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The US Dollar: Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Marshall Auerback | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Fed, Credit Crisis, Default, Inflation, Dollar, Interest Rate, Depreciation, Business News
Marshall Auerback

It seems there isn't a day that goes by without more commentary on the demise of the dollar and the concomitant risk of a collapse of the world's reserve currency.

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Food Prices Poised To Rise

DailyFinance | Dan Burrows | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Usda, Food Prices, Inflation, Cost of Living, Commodity Prices, Business News

If there's any silver lining to a recession -- albeit a thin one -- it's that consumer prices typically go down. Make no mistake, deflation is a sign ...

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Dollar, Inflation, Recession Optimism

Diane Francis | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Healthcare Costs, Financial Meltdown, Inflation, Economic Meltdown, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Bank Rescues, China, Recession, Japan, Business News
Diane Francis

A world expert on economics delivered a cogent and optimistic analysis of the meltdown, its causes, its cure and its effect on the future at the recent Global Business Forum in Banff, Alberta.

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What $1000+ Gold Means To You

Nathan Lewis | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Dollar Value, Gold Standard, Gold, Inflation, Gold Bullion, Business News
Nathan Lewis

If you look more closely at gold, you discover that there is hardly any compelling investment thesis at all. In fact, it appears that gold is among the most useless things on the planet.

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Martin Wolf: "Worldwide Inflation" Could Be Coming

Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Inflation, Financial TImes, Yahoo Tech Ticker, Recession, Henry Blodget, Martin Wolf, China, Business News

In an interview with Yahoo Tech Ticker this morning, Martin Wolf, the chief economic commentator at The Financial Times, was cautiously optimistic abo...

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Roubini: How The Federal Reserve Should Withdraw The Stimulus

The Globe and Mail | Nouriel Roubini | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Nouriel Roubini, Inflation, Fiscal Stimulus, Federal Reserve, The Fed, Stimulus, Roubini Dr Doom, Business News

There's a general consensus that the massive monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and support of the financial system undertaken by governments and centra...

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We Are Not Dependent on Foreign Countries for Our Own Money

Paul A. London | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Economic Stimulus, Money, Inflation, Deficits, Politics News
Paul A. London

History-blind conservatives scare the country by saying that creating more money is a slippery slope to runaway inflation. This is not so. The real danger is the opposite.

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The Economy: Cycling Along With the Training Wheels On

Michael de Portu | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Ppip, Paulson, Deflation, Inflation, Bernanke, Toxic Assets, American Manufacturing, Recession, Tarp, Economy, Greenspan, Greenlaw, Hatzius, Business News
Michael de Portu

Some observers ask whether we are in 1929 or 1932. The good news is that the world is so different today, we are probably in neither. The globe has 6 billion inhabitants with that much more potential for instability.

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Central Bankers Content To Keep Interest Rates Low

Financial Times | Krishna Guha | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Central Bankers, Inflation, Economy, Ben Bernanke, Business News

The world's central bankers were in no hurry to start raising interest rates as they headed home on Sunday from the US Federal Reserve's annual retrea...

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The New Fall Fashion is Inflation

Michael Pento | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Deflation Data, Wall Street, Deflation, Inflation, Economy, Consumer Price Inflation, Ben Bernanke, Consumer Price Index, Inflation Data, Business News
Michael Pento

The data soon to be released by the government will put a dagger through the hearts of those who are predicting a protracted period of deflation.

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Vanishing Social Security COLA Adjustment Will Squeeze Some Seniors

Mark Miller | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Security, Economic Recession, Inflation, Cost of Living, Recession, Retirement, Retirement Funds, Senior Citizens, Saving for Retirement, Social Security Crisis, Social Security Benefits, Cola, Business News
Mark Miller

The vanishing COLA will squeeze many retirees hard. Social Security provides, on average, about 39 percent of income for retired households and more than 50 million people receive benefits.

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Growth: Never More Needed, Never More Misunderstood

Michael Pento | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Tax Cuts, Public Spending, Growth, Private Sector Growth, Inflation, Private Sector, Ecnomic Growth, Business News
Michael Pento

What constitutes real growth and the pathway to achieve it has never before been more confused. Real growth comes from empowering the private sector by cutting taxes and reducing public spending.

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Needed Medicine: A Dose of Inflation?

Jodie Allen | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, U.S. Economy, Ben Bernanke, China, Inflation, Lawrence Summers, Business News
Jodie Allen

it's worth asking if a carefully monitored dose of inflation, might be the fastest -- and maybe only -- way to spring America free of its debtor's shackles.

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Apples and Inflation

Michael Pento | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Inflation, Value of the Dollar, Finance, Money, Business News
Michael Pento

It would be politically and economically devastating for the Fed to dump $800 billion of Treasuries in addition to the $3.25 trillion they must sell in fiscal 2009.

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Debt, Inflation and the Stock Market

Alan Schram | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Debt, Ben Bernanke, Inflation, Stock Market, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

It should be obvious to all that we can't get out from under our mountain of debt through spending.

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Risk of Major Social Upheaval Likely if Bank Bonanza Continues

Marshall Auerback | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Economic Stimulus Package, Budget Cuts, Inflation, Economy, Economic Crisis, Obama Budget, Larry Summers, Banks, Timothy Geithner, G, Barack Obama, Housing Bubble, Politics News
Marshall Auerback

Is a Democratic administration and a Democratically controlled Congress presiding over one of the most regressive wealth transfers in history?

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In New York, What Goes Up Stays Up

Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Consumer Prices, Cpi, Inflation, New York, New York News
Dan Dorfman

Is the cost of living in New York City really falling?

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Fed: Recession Easing, Inflation Not A Threat

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Fed Chairman, Inflation, Fed Meeting, Recession, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve sought Wednesday to defuse fears that the trillions it's spending to revive the economy could spark inflation l...

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