Be skeptical when the market rallies off no good news. We could be in for worse things to come. Good article in the times outlining the problems overlooked in yesterday’s job report: Grim Job Report Not Showing Full Picture “As bad as the headline numbers in Friday’s employment report were, they still made the job [...]
Not a bad idea. My professor actually discussed this idea, coincidentally, in Urban Economics today about charging for high-demand reservations. Why not? It would make more time slots available. Say you HAVE to go to some super-duper restaurant to impress your parents, in-laws, or date and plan it last minute, this creates the availability for a small [...]
As if there wasn’t enough garbage being produced in Hollywood these days, Citigroup has just co-financed a package with Relativity Media Holdings to produce 40-50 films garbage over the next 5 years. Get ready for more quick-buck cheap-to-produce garbage coming to theatres soon! In case you were wondering what wonderful Oscar-worthy films crap Relativity Media [...]
This is horrible. For years the tobacco industry has been losing lawsuits and paying out billions of dollars because it deceived the public about the harm and addiction of cigarettes. So what do they do…..It seems, according to this article at Forbes.com, a study at the Harvard School of Public Health found that US tobacco companies have [...]
This video is chilling, shocking, and is not for the faint of heart. This is actual footage filmed by insurgent groups in Iraq showing snipers take out American troops and IED bombs blowing up vehicles and military convoys!! This is just sickening. Here is another video/news report from CNN, and a full article from Anderson [...]
Through Yahoo! News GAZA CITY (AFP) – The Palestinian ruling Hamas movement has said it will double the size of its armed force to 12,000 men, after president Mahmud Abbas called the troops illegal and demanded their integration into existing security structures. “The commanders of the (executive) force, with agreement from the interior minister, decided [...]
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This article from the AP, through Yahoo, reports on 2 leading scientific organizations that assert ExxonMobil donated over $15million over the past 7 years to groups that are trying to mislead the public and discredit the effects of global warming. Go to MotherJones.com for an article investigating the groups ExxonMobil donated to in order to [...]
They finally are starting this year, after Lucas has talked about it for ages. Lucas: 4th ‘Indiana Jones’ to shoot in 2007 – CNN.com
November, 2006 Techcrunch.com Looks like the RIAA went after Allofmp3.com, the notorious russian mp3-downloading site, for 1.65trillion, or $150,000 for each song downloaded off their site. The maximum penalty under the law. Allofmp3 claims they are legal under russian law, but this document on the US government’s website says Russia agreed to shut the site [...]
