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Here's Why Donald Trump Wants Obama's Passport
On Wednesday, celebrity businessman Donald Trump took the media world by storm with his ultimatum for President Barack Obama: If he releases his passport records and transcripts, the entrepreneur will...
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These Are The Worst Celebrity Endorsements Of Obama
Author Dave Eggers’ “90 Days, 90 Reasons,” an online collection of mini-essays by the famous and semi-famous celebrating the presidency of Barack Obama, may be even more insufferable than it sounds....
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Why Worriers Have An Edge Over More Confident Employees
People prone to feeling ashamed before they have done anything wrong make better friends, lovers and employees. Via The Daily Telegraph: Writing in the Current Directions in Psychological Science...
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Your Neighbor's Late Mortgage Payments Are Costing You $21,077
Owning properties near foreclosed homes is taking a toll on Americans in communities across the country, according to a new report released by the Center for Responsible Lending. Data in the report...
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Here's What It Really Takes To Beat The Market
"Beating the market" means trying to earn an investment return greater than that of the S&P 500 index, one of the most popular benchmarks of U.S. stock market performance. Investment fees are one...
View ArticleDo You Have What It Takes to Disrupt an Entire Industry?
What extraordinary abilities does Jack Dorsey possess that have enabled him to tackle and disrupt the payment processing industry? Certainly nothing in the Twitter co-founder’s career history hinted...
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Are High School Reunions Worth The Cost?
Each year many people make a financial investment to attend high school reunions. Local attendees pay the ticket prices while some people travel from out of town and pay gas or airfare plus the ticket...
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Why A Secretive Republican Group From Arizona Is Spending Millions In California
A political group tied to a handful of mostly small-time Arizona Republicans has made a splash in California, by dropping $11 million into the fight over a pair of ballot initiatives in the Golden...
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17 Actors In Tiny Background Roles Before They Were Famous
Before they were headlining movies and TV shows, these celebs were just like everyone else trying to make it in Hollywood: thrilled to call home to report that the “Flight Attendant #3” role was...
View ArticleCompetitiveness Cacophony: Attack On France’s Sacred Cow
References to the financial crisis are piling up in France’s economic data. The latest was housing. The total amount that banks granted for mortgages plummeted by 30.5% so far this year from the same...
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China Blocks The New York Times For Report On Wen Jiabao's Family Wealth
China's foreign ministry has accused the New York Times of smearing the country by reporting that premier Wen Jiabao's extended family has controlled assets worth at least $2.7bn (£1.67bn). Spokesman...
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Here's Why It's Such A Scandal That Wen Jiabao's Family Is Loaded
AT HIS first news conference as China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao introduced himself to reporters packed into a cavernous room in the Great Hall of the People (as well as to a live television...
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Cyber-War Is Raging And The Pentagon Has Prepared For An Electronic 'Pear Harbor
Senior Army officials said Tuesday that it is working to develop the service’s offensive cyber warfare capabilities to go along with its cyber security capabilities to allow soldier to launch as well...
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Why You Should Never Kiss A Pig At The County Fair
Some prize pigs at Ohio's county fairs may have a dark secret. Two months ago, a 61-year-old Ohio woman died after catching a new strain of swine flu. Her death was the first fatality linked to a...
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11 Luxuries We Think The Richest 1 Percent Have—But Don't
The Occupy Wall Street movement popularized the phrase, “the 1 percent.” But a new survey shows most people don’t really have a clue what that means, beyond “pretty rich, right?” and “That ain’t me.”...
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Not Getting Enough Sleep Could Be Making You Gain Weight
Getting seven to eight solid hours of sleep each night might seem an almost impossible luxury to many people. But not getting enough sleep is known to impair mental function and increase the risk for...
View ArticleHUGH HENDRY: Don't Tell Me China Will Sell Their US Treasuries
Here is an excellent interview at The Economist Buttonwood Conference featuring Hugh Hendry. You may have to enter your email address to play, but I doubt it has to be accurate as there was no...
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REPORT: Shell Is Looking Into Using Grains Instead Of Cash To Pay Off A Debt...
LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Oil major Royal Dutch/Shell is seeking to work around international sanctions by repaying a $1.4 billion oil debt to Iran with a grain barter deal via U.S. agribusiness...
View ArticleTHE STELLA RIMINGTON VIEW OF RUSSIA – PERVERSE CRUELTY FOR PREPOSTEROUS...
By John Helmer, Moscow Spy novels are a dime a dozen – make that £10 before they are remaindered; the fact that some of them are written by ex-spies or counter-espionage agents doesn’t make them more...
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Vietnamese Banks Got Caught Selling Clients' Gold To Finance Themselves
Several months ago, we reported about a troubling development in Vietnam, happy inflationary host of one of the world's most rapidly devaluing and best named currencies, that in direct refutation of...
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