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As far as mega corporations in bed with the government go, Google sits somewhere close to the top of the tree.
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First, it's important to note that none of these ten factors are mutually exclusive. Indeed, many are complementary.
10 Ways Rising Oil Prices Endanger the U.S. Recovery - Daniel Indiviglio - Business - The Atlantic
Four time bombs that will blow up Wall Street Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Put Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in jail for six months, and all this will stop, all over Wall Street and America, a former congressional aide tells Matt Taibbi in his latest Rolling Stone attack, “Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them.”DENVER -- Highly paid employees at the U.S.
Denver Attorney Exposes Porn-Surfing Public Servants - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver
A Connecticut man who was halfway through a haircut allegedly stabbed another man in the back with a pair of scissors, according to police. David Davis, 20, was getting his hair done in a Stamford apartment this afternoon when the attack occurred. Davis, pictured in the above mug shot, was arrested for felony assault.
Mid-Haircut, Connecticut Man Stabs Victim With Pair Of Scissors | The Smoking Gun
UPDATE: Fox 4 has identified the teacher under investigation as Michelle Preston , a third-year psychology and world geography instructor.
Michelle Preston, Shawnee Mission West teacher, accused of inappropriate relationship with a student - Kansas City News - Plog
US backing for world currency stuns markets - Telegraph
The dollar plunged instantly against the euro, yen, and sterling as the comments flashed across trading screens. David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said the apparent policy shift amounts to an earthquake in geo-finance. The Chinese proposal, outlined this week by central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan, calls for a "super-sovereign reserve currency" under IMF management, turning the Fund into a sort of world central bank.Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses.
ABC News - Japan Earthquake: before and after
Despite the looming possibility of a government shutdown, federal layoffs and furloughs, there’s at least one thing members of Congress from both political parties can readily agree on these days: partying.
In face of government shutdown, it's still party time - Washington Times
In an unprecedented move, the number of investors fearing a catastrophic stock market crash is rising even with the stock market at 2 ½ year highs. The unusual dislocation comes from two distinct reasons: a lack of trust in the U.S. financial markets following the so-called Flash Crash last May and the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2007.
s Fast Money: No Trust: Fear of 'Catastrophic' Crash Rising Despite Bull Market - CNBC
Your Incredible Shrinking Paycheck - TIME
Before I started writing this column on why paychecks are likely to keep shrinking even if unemployment starts to inch down, I consulted Google to see if the term Marxism was trending upward. It was and has been ever since the end of December, the conclusion of a year in which workers' share of the U.S. economic pie shrank to the smallest piece ever: 54.4% of GDP, down from about 60% in the 1970s.Raunchy ... new game We Dare
Raunchy Nintendo Wii game for kids as young as 12 | The Sun |News
Federal, state and local debt hits post-WWII levels
The daunting tower of national, state and local debt in the United States will reach a level this year unmatched just after World War II and already exceeds the size of the entire economy, according to government estimates. But any similarity between 1946 and now ends there. The U.S. debt levels tumbled in the years after World War II, but today they are still climbing and even deep cuts in spending won't completely change that for several years.RealtyTrac is out with the total foreclosure numbers for 2010 .