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(Mar.25.09) -

New Virtual World Currency  ---»

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Joining the ever continuous push for a new, non-US dominated world currency standard, China, home to one of the larger mmorpg virtual economy infrastructures, is calling for…



(Feb.20.09) -

Stock Market Disaster = Cattle Drive?  ---»

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People seem to forget the origin of the term “stock market” came from in a lot of bull… physical bulls. The Stock in the Stock market were…



(Nov.19.08) -

DOW drop in, but keep it under 8000, please?  ---»

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Its a benchmark… backward! The DOW has finally given us a psychological threshold of de-evolution:
“Its painful,” said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at Standard & Poors.…



(Nov.11.08) -

United States of American Express Bank  ---»

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Interesting news clippings for rememberance today: American Express becomes a bank. Treasury Dept secretly changes tax code allowing for free bank mergers. Its like getting a free…



(Sep.15.08) -

The Banks  ---»

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- In the News: Big Insurer AIG Seeks Cash, $40 billion bridge loan from the Federal Reserve, as Portfolio Plummets. (update: AIG get Fed Bailout)

- In…



(Mar.18.08) -

Better Balkanization Through Synergy  ---»

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Synergy: lets all get together! or, Synergy: lets all collapse into a black hole of selfsame homogeneous perspectives! The choice is yours. Or is it? Basic wikipedia…



(Mar.10.08) -

63000 job loss: Party for March  ---»

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Hot on the heels of the federal job loss indicator for february is an attempt by a group of activists to turn the unemployed to good. Since…



(Sep.03.05) -

A Confederacy of Dunces  ---»

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may have been swept out to sea by katrina. Unfortunately, looking at the ocean currents and deep-drift phenomena, they may all beach somewhere around washington d.c. where…



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