It is clear that when banks become too big, it harms the economy. Economist Steve Keen says that “a sustainable level of bank profits appears to be about 1% of GDP”, and higher bank profits lead to a Ponzi economy and a depression.But most mainstre…
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Extreme Inequality Helped Cause Both the Great Depression and the Current Economic Crisis
December 17th, 2010 |
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Prayer helped me through DWTS controversy: Bristol Palin
November 25th, 2010 |
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She may not have won ‘Dancing with the Stars’, but Bristol Palin says she’s happy with her third-place finish. “It is faith that got me through this and just praying all the time and just relying on God and knowing that He is on our side and we’ll get through this,†Palin told People mag [...]
Singapore export growth quickens, helped by electronics, drugs
November 16th, 2010 |
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Singapore’s export growth accelerated in October as manufacturers shipped more electronics and pharmaceutical goods abroad, an advance that may ease as global growth cools in the coming months.
Non-oil domestic exports climbed 34.5% from a year earlier, after a revised 22.6% gain in September, the trade promotion agency said in a statement in Singapore today. The median forecast of 13 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was for an increase of 26.6%.
Gwyneth Paltrow says Beyonce helped her prepare for CMAs
November 12th, 2010 |
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Gwyneth Paltrow has credited superstar pals Beyonce and Faith Hill with helping her to shake off her nerves ahead of her singing debut at Wednesday night”s Country Music Association Awards. The Oscar-winner hit the stage with Vince Gill to belt out the theme tune to her new movie ‘Country Strong’, in which she plays Tim [...]
Windows 7, Office 2010 Helped Boost Microsoft Quarterly Revenues
October 28th, 2010 |
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Microsoft reported strong results for the fiscal quarter, buoyed by strong sales of Windows 7 and Office 2010. But smartphones remain a looming question. – Microsoft announced strong results for its first fiscal
quarter 2011, with revenues of $16.20 billion and net income of $5.41 billion.
That represents a 25 percent rise in revenues over the same quarter last year,
when the company was combating the fallout of a massive global recession.
Net inc…
How Tracking My Statistics Helped Increase My Productivity
October 28th, 2010 |
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When it comes to running an online business, it is extremely easy to get caught up in the numbers game. I’m the kind of person who is fascinated by numbers. I like to keep up to date with how things are going with my sites numerically. I’m always interested to know… How many people are [...]
HTC Evo 4G, Samsung Epic Helped Sprint Add Wireless Subscribers in 3Q
October 27th, 2010 |
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The HTC Evo 4G and Samsung Epic 4G helped Sprint add 644,000 wireless subscribers during its third fiscal quarter, but the carrier still posted a financial loss. – The best descriptor of Sprints third-quarter performance, said CEO Dan Hesse, is “momentum.”
Sprint announced third-quarter consolidated net operating revenues
of nearly $8.2 billion. However, Sprint still posted a net loss of $911
million during the quarter. However, Sprint also added 644,00…
Christopher Whalen: Freddie and Fannie Helped to Create Epidemic of Mortgage Fraud
October 22nd, 2010 |
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Chris Whalen (co-founder of Institutional Risk Analytics) knows a thing or two about banking and mortgages. Whalen has been hailed by Nouriel Roubini as one of the leading independent analysts of the U.S. banking system, and there are few people who…
Twitter helped to free me from Taliban captors: Released Japanese journalist
September 8th, 2010 |
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Japanese journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka has said that if there was anything that saved him from being killed by his Taliban captors, it was his familiarity with the social networking site Twitter. Recalling his harrowing experience in Taliban captivity, Tsuneko said that back in late June, circumstances looked bleak for him. He was on the brink [...]
Lehman Fraudulently Cooked Its Books, Accounting Giant Ernst & Young Helped, Geithner and Bernanke Winked and Slapped Them on the Back
March 12th, 2010 |
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As William K. Black said a year ago, the government’s entire strategy now – as in the S&L crisis – is to cover up how bad things are (“the entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts”).Paul Krugman and others pointed out that Geithne…
How climate change has helped create the World’s most sustainable window Posted By : Chris Dixon
March 11th, 2010 |
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Describes how the necessity to combat climate change has created the impetus to develop an exciting new sustainable window frame material that exactly meets the needs of the future and is now in everyday use.
Cisco, Juniper Helped Boost Router Revenues, Dell’Oro Says
February 25th, 2010 |
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Cisco, Juniper Networks and other top vendors saw double-digit revenue growth in their router businesses in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Dell’Oro Group. Overall, revenue in the worldwide service provider space jumped 15 percent sequentially in the quarter, and Dell’Oro says it expects the trend to continue into 2010.
– Like other sectors of the tech industry, the global service provider router
market showed continuing recovery in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to
research company Dell’Oro Group.
In a report issued Feb. 22, Dell’Oro said the sales of routers
for service providers jumped 15 percent over t…
Nokia, RIM Helped Global Smartphone Markets Jump 30 Percent
February 1st, 2010 |
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Nokia, BlackBerry maker RIM and Apple all saw strong growth during the fourth quarter of 2009, in which the worldwide smartphone market grew by 30 percent. Strategy Analytics expects 2010 to be the year of “smartphone wars” which will be good for consumers but a challenge for vendors.
– While inexpensive
netbooks helped keep the PC industry afloat through the recession,
feature-rich smartphones, by contrast, are “leading the handset industry out of
the recession,” wrote Strategy Analytics analyst Tom Kang, in a Feb.
1 report.
Global smartphone shipments reached a record …
Singapore employers increase payrolls, helped by casino resorts
January 29th, 2010 |
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Singapore employers expanded payrolls for a second straight quarter as the island’s new casino resorts started hiring amid a strengthening economy.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 2.1% in the three months ended December from 3.4% in the previous quarter, the Ministry of Manpower said today. The median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of seven economists was for an unchanged rate. The city-state added 38,700 new jobs last quarter, bringing the total number to 38,800 in 2009.
Netbooks Helped Spur PC Shipments in Q3, Says IDC
December 17th, 2009 |
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Good news, says IDC. After three quarters of slumping, worldwide PC shipments grew in the third quarter. And while desktops sales will remain flat in 2010, portable PCs will continue growing both internationally and in the United States.
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Back-to-school sales helped the
worldwide PC market achieve positive growth in the third quarter of 2009,
according to a Dec. 17 report from IDC. Consumer mobile devices, which grew
33.5 percent from a year earlier, helped to propel the overall market, which,
after three consecut…
CapitaMalls Asia seen rising on debut, helped by China
November 24th, 2009 |
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Shares of CapitaMalls Asia (CMAL.SI) will likely gain about 10% on their debut tomorrow, helped by strong demand from institutional investors keen to gain exposure to China’s fast-growing consumer market.
The listing is the latest in a string of share sales across Asia as companies look to take advantage of a rally that has lifted the region’s stocks by almost two-thirds this year.
Kevin Smith says smoking pot helped his creative side
October 6th, 2009 |
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American screenwriter Kevin Smith has revealed that smoking marijuana has really helped him in bringing out his creative side.
Smith, 39, who now sparks up at least three times a day, said that he was not really into smoking it until Canadian actor Seth Rogen talked him into it last summer.
Though it is not something that [...]
The Largest U.S. Banks Have Repeatedly Gone Bankrupt Due to Wild Speculation. The Fed Blessed the Speculation then Helped Cover Up the Bankruptcies
October 5th, 2009 |
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As I have previously pointed out, the New York Times wrote in February:In the 1980s, during the height of the Latin American debt crisis, the total risk to the nine money-center banks in New York was estimated at more than three times the capital of th…
How a pink scarf helped Pammie dodge wardrobe malfunction
September 24th, 2009 |
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Pamela Anderson dodged a wardrobe malfunction as she held giant pink scarf over her cleavage at a New Zealand press conference.
The former Playboy star, along with her co-designer Richie Rich, was at Air New Zealand Fashion Week to promote her runway show.
The ‘Baywatch’ actress was said to have almost landed in trouble while showing how [...]