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发帖数: 3803 | 1 Who wants a union? Not Southern autoworkers, it seems
By JERRY HIRSCH
Los Angeles Times
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Carmakers scramble to hire electric engineers
Who wants a union? Not Southern autoworkers, it seems
Change your job-hunting strategy to better your odds
Canyon Ranch founder practices what he preaches
Your Office Coach: Try to adapt to unwelcome management change
Q&A: To keep work distractions at bay, consider curbs on email
New graduates look in vain for expected jo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Seven Myths About the Looming Debt-Ceiling 'Disaster'
By John Lott
Published July 15, 2011 | FoxNews.com
If Congress and the president don't raise the debt ceiling, the consequences
will be disastrous, politicians and pundits tell us, -- the equivalent of
an economic Armageddon. And President Obama warns that the consequences are
so dire that he cannot possibly tolerate any delay in making an agreement.
He announced yesterday that any debt deal must be completed by today, July
15th.
According to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 拿了大把州政府补贴、曾经是奥巴马刺激方案宣传个案的Evergreen Solar公司申请破
产了。所谓“绿色产业”...
By Greg Turner And Jerry Kronenberg
Monday, August 15, 2011 - Updated 2 days ago
Evergreen Solar Inc., the Massachusetts clean-energy company that received
millions in state subsidies from the Patrick administration for an ill-fated
Bay State factory, has filed for bankruptcy, listing $485.6 million in debt.
Evergreen, which closed its taxpayer-supported Devens factory in March and
cut 800 jobs, has been trying to rework its debt for m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 Friday, September 16, 2011 | 6:40 p.m. CDT
BY PETE YOST/The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The number of violent crimes fell by a surprising 12 percent
in the U.S. last year, a far bigger drop than the nation has been averaging
since 2001, the Justice Department said.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported there were 3.8 million violent
crimes last year, down from 4.3 million in 2009.
Experts aren't sure why. The expectation had been that crime would increase
in a weak economy with high unempl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15 | 5 没有国会通过的“居者有其屋”法案，就不会有房市的全国性崩盘；没有政府参与的两
房，就不会有因其而至的世界性经济衰退。为了极其局限的地区或者受众而做的政治决
定，往往造成远远超越目标范围的经济影响。类似的，政客们为2012年大选所做的举动
，忽略了振兴经济的长期策略。。。来源于Thomas Sowell的“政治与经济”。
They say "all politics is local." But economic decisions impact the whole
economy and reverberate internationally. That is why politicians' meddling
with the economy creates so many disasters.
The time horizon of politics seldom reaches beyond the next election. But,
in economics, when an oil company invests in oil explorations today, th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 By Mark J. Fitzgibbons
President Obama's proclamation on Monday that he "can't wait" for
congressional action to help underwater homeowners raises two questions.
If he already had the legal authority to take action, then why did he wait?
Some may frame the second question this way: does Obama's plan exceed his
constitutional authority? Perhaps the better way to ask the second question
is whether the Obama plan is unlawful.
Either way, I can't wait for Congress to conduct some oversight hearings... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 by Patrick J. Buchanan 10/28/2011
On Oct. 31, the U.N. Population Fund marks the arrival of the 7 billionth
person on Earth and raises the population estimate for the planet at mid-
century to 9.3 billion people.
There is a possibility, says the United Nations, that, by century's end,
world population may reach 15 billion. What does this mean for Western
civilization?
It may not matter, except to identify who inherits the estate. For while
world population is exploding, Wester... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 By RIAZ KHAN and SEBASTIAN ABBOT, Associated Press
November 27, 2011
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Hundreds of trucks
carrying supplies to U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan backed up at Pakistani
border crossings Sunday, leaving them vulnerable to militant attack a day
after Islamabad closed the frontier in retaliation for coalition airstrikes
that allegedly killed 24 Pakistani troops.
As Pakistan army chief Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani attended the funerals of
the victims, inclu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 By SARAH DILORENZO, Associated Press
December 6, 2011
PARIS (AP) — Global markets were muted on Tuesday after a rating agency
warned it could downgrade the debt of most eurozone countries, raising
pressure on European leaders to find a lasting solution to their crisis this
week.
The Standard & Poor's rating agency threatened late Monday to downgrade 15
countries that use the euro, including Germany and France, whose debt
ratings are considered the linchpins of the European bailout system.
Th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 In a stunning finding, Accenture asserts in a new survey of consumer
behavior that traditional television viewership is experiencing a wholesale
collapse.
The survey, the results of which are being released Monday, just as the 2012
International Consumer Electronics Show gets underway in Las Vegas, finds
that the number of consumers who watch broadcast or cable television in a
typical week plunged to 48% in 2011 from 71% in 2009. The same survey, which
canvased about 1,000 consumers in each of 1... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4050 | 11 Son, you brain is too limited to understand what is bigger -
Big Risk: $1.2 Quadrillion Derivatives Market Dwarfs World GDP
By Peter Cohan Posted 10:45AM 06/09/10 Economy, Investing, Investing Basics
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One of the biggest risks to the world's financial health is the $1.2
quadrillion derivatives market. It's complex, it's unregulated, and it ought
to be of concern to world leaders that its notional value is 20 times the
size of the world economy. But traders rule t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 Downgrade of Debt Ratings Underscores Europe’s Woes
By LIZ ALDERMAN and RACHEL DONADIO
PARIS — Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit ratings of France, Italy
and seven other European countries on Friday, a move that may have more
symbolic than fundamental financial impact but served as a reminder that
Europe’s economic woes were far from over.
Another memory jog came Friday from Greece, the original source of Europe’s
debt troubles. Talks hit a snag between the new Greek government and the
ban... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 David Cameron has risked souring Britain's relations with Berlin in the
runup to next week's crucial European summit by calling on Germany to play a
larger role in safeguarding the single currency.
Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, the prime minister said
resolving the ongoing crisis was not just the job of indebted countries such
as Greece and Italy, which have been forced to adopt punishing austerity
measures; "surplus" countries, such as Germany, should also have to play
their par... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Their husbands have run some of the most brutal regimes of the Arab world.
But who are the women who stand by the dictators?
In December 2010, the French first lady Carla Bruni sat down to lunch under
the gold chandeliers of the Elysée palace with Asma al-Assad, wife of the
Syrian leader Bashar. As they sat demurely with their husbands around a
butterfly-print tablecloth dominated by a pastel flower-arrangement, a
photographer was ushered in to grab a picture for French celebrity magazines
. Aft... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10345 | 15 Welfare Reform as We Knew It
It's hard to remember now, but this summer Mitt Romney opened a useful
debate about "dependency"—concerning President Obama's regulation to
rewrite the 1996 welfare reform. Democrats deny any such intent, but as
early as this week the House plans to hold a vote to override the new rule.
So it's a good moment to dissect what the Administration is really trying to
do, because in this case Mr. Romney is right: The Administration has made
welfare's work requirements far ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 加税到底好还是坏现在可以拿法国做例子了.
PARIS—-The French Socialist government on Friday unveiled the country's
toughest budget in decades, hiking taxes for the rich and big business in a
bid to slash its deficit while facing a stalled economy.
President François Hollande, in his first budget since being elected
five months ago, has pledged to balance public accounts by the end of his
mandate in 2017 and given himself two years to turn around the French
economy.
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According to documents presented at the weekl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16928 | 17 I can assure you that French economy will plunge and rich French will leave
the country with their investment. Just wait and see. |
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发帖数: 3158 | 19 blowing up a housing bubble to easy the burst of the IT bubble
it is the same way as what Obama did by blowing up a debt bubble to easy
the burst of the housing bubble
Obama should get all the blame once this debt bubble burst and the economy
plunges to the bottom
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发帖数: 4150 | 20 Still plunging... 2.5% now... |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 President François Hollande attempted to re-launch his struggling
presidency last night by promising to re-build a strong France for a "new
generation" and a "new world".
In a press conference seen as a critical opportunity to set a new tone and a
new direction after a much-criticised first six months in office, Mr
Hollande sought to abandon his image as a bumbling and laid-back "President
Normal" and tried to define himself instead as a hands-on "President
Responsible".
"I've made the choi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17225 | 22 Investors Rush to Beat Threat of Higher Taxes
By NATHANIEL POPPER and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
Business owners and investors are rapidly maneuvering to shield themselves
from the prospect of higher taxes next year, a strategy that is sending
ripples across Wall Street and broad areas of the economy.
Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times
Kristina Collins, a chiropractor, is monitoring her business income.
Related
Business Chiefs Step Gingerly Into a Thorny Budget Fight (November 12, 2012)
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 by wheatington
To the surprise of no rational mind with knowledge of Islam, President
Morsilini has grabbed dictatorial powers. Of course he claims he won’t be a
dictator! Hahaha!
The usurper in the White House was a big Arab Spring booster. He has even
sent the new dictator in Egypt about 500 million American buckaroos as a
gift for establishing a caliphate democracy there.
The usurper has made no comment about the Morsilini situation, yet. Perhaps
he is getting his intel from Jiminy Clapper or... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 24 Beth Belton, USA TODAY9:59a.m. EST March 1, 2013
(Photo: Mark Wilson, Getty Images)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Huge income drop follows 2.6% surge in December
Most of December's income gain came from bonuses, dividends paid before
higher taxes kicked in
Consumer spending up 0.2%, driven by payments on higher heating bills
WASHINGTON (AP) — Personal income growth plunged 3.6% in January, the
biggest one-month drop in 20 years, the Commerce Department said Friday. And
consumer spending rose just 0.2% with m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 25 By DAVID A. STOCKMAN
GREENWICH, Conn. -- The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached
record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the
stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be
very afraid.
David Stockman
Over the last 13 years, the stock market has twice crashed and touched off a
recession: American households lost $5 trillion in the 2000 dot-com bust
and more than $7 trillion in the 2007 housing crash. Sooner or later —
within a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 Ron Johnson is out at J.C. Penney Co. JCP +2.72%
Penney's board met Monday and agreed to replace the former Apple Inc. AAPL +
0.71% executive after his plan for revamping the chain's 1,100 department
stores produced a disastrous drop in sales.
Myron Ullman, whom Mr. Johnson succeeded as CEO, will retake the top job and
also has joined the board.
Directors had been showing increasing concern about Mr. Johnson, who rolled
out an ambitious plan to reinvent Penney's stores a year ago but didn't
foll... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 President Barack Obama’s approval rating dropped a shocking 8 percentage
points over the last month -- one of sharpest, fastest plunges in his
presidency, according to a new CNN poll released early Monday morning.
For the first time in Obama's time in office, more than half of the public
doesn’t feel that the president is honest and trustworthy, the CNN/ORC
International poll showed.
Specifically, Obama's approval rating stands at 45 percent, down from 53
percent in mid-May, CNN reported. A sho... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 By
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN
In recent months, Americans have heard reports out of Washington and in the
media that the economy is looking up—that recovery from the Great Recession
is gathering steam. If only it were true. The longest and worst recession
since the end of World War II has been marked by the weakest recovery from
any U.S. recession in that same period.
The jobless nature of the recovery is particularly unsettling. In June, the
government's Household Survey reported that since the sta... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 By Michael Snyder, on August 20th, 2013
Obama Follow MeBarack Obama has been running around the country taking
credit for an "economic recovery", but the truth is that things have not
gotten better under Obama. Compared to when he first took office, a smaller
percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our
jobs has declined substantially and the middle class has been absolutely
shredded. If we are really in the middle of an "economic recovery", why is
the homeownership... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1540 | 30 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: oosmart (oosmart), 信区: Military
标 题: [真实] 欧洲人国外摘和贩卖人体器官被当地人活活烧死
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Oct 10 10:01:22 2013, 美东)
路透社报道。基本上说，马达加斯加当地人在海滩上发现了一个死亡的孩子，身体里器
官被摘除了。于是当地人搜索和追击怀疑犯事的三个欧洲人 - 抓住了两个，警察局长
说其中一个当场承认了贩卖人体器官。于是众人活活烧死了这两个人，第三个人跑掉了。
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/03/us-france-madagascar-
Madagascar crowd burn alive two Europeans over 'organ trafficking'
（Reuters) - A crowd burnt two Europeans alive on a tourist island in
Madagascar because they suspected them o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 by Jammie
I don’t watch CNN, but I imagine Wolf Blitzer must be wetting himself like
when Bush fell below 40%. Aw, who am I kidding? Reid and Obama’s filibuster
stunt today was designed to obscure the fact Obama’s a total failure. We
can’t wait for the next NBC poll to drop so the drooling morons at MSNBC
can self-immolate on live television.
As President Barack Obama’s approval rating hits another all-time low,
a new national survey also indicates that Americans say the President has
less p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 The Full-Time Scandal of Part-Time America
Fewer than half of U.S. adults are working full time. Why? Slow growth and
the perverse incentives of ObamaCare.
By Mortimer Zuckerman
July 13, 2014 6:47 p.m. ET
There has been a distinctive odor of hype lately about the national jobs
report for June. Most people will have the impression that the 288,000 jobs
created last month were full-time. Not so.
The Obama administration and much of the media trumpeting the figure
overlooked that the government nu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3599 | 33 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: hutuxian (糊涂仙), 信区: Military
标 题: 西方往死里整普京大帝，油价变便宜无比
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 15 10:05:23 2014, 美东)
油价跌破3美元一加仑了， 西方这是往死里整普京啊
Crashing oil prices could crush Vladimir Putin
Falling oil prices are good for American drivers, but not for Russia.
In early March when Russia first sent troops into Ukraine, oil was trading
comfortably above $100 per barrel. Now, it's around $81, a level not seen in
three years.
That's a tough pill for Russia to swallow since the country re... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 by Jammie via Jammie Wearing Fools
Republicans are enjoying a five-year peak in popularity after their wins in
the midterm elections, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll, while
President Barack Obama struggles with his lowest job approval rating, at 39
percent. The White House also is facing a backlash from independents who
oppose his unilateral moves on immigration, and just 24 percent say the
country is on the right track, the lowest rating since September 2011.
Obama’s weakened standin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 Oil price slumps again as US crude inventories surge
February 4, 2015 - 4:36 PM
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices plunged on Wednesday, ending a four-day rally,
after the U.S. government reported that crude inventories surged last week.
The 6.3 million barrel increase was far more than analysts had expected and
renewed worries in the market that supplies of oil are still outstripping
demand.
Oil had rallied 19 percent over the previous four days as traders hoped that
low prices would f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 Connecticut to super-rich residents: Please don't leave us
February 9, 2015 - 4:06 PM
By STEPHEN SINGER, Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — If you're a billionaire living in Connecticut,
chances are the tax department is keeping an eye on you.
In a state home to some of the richest Americans, tax officials go to some
lengths to keep them — or, more accurately, keep the billions of dollars in
revenue their income taxes generate.
Connecticut tax officials track quarterly estimated payments of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth braked more sharply than initially thought
in the fourth quarter amid a moderate increase in business inventories and a
wider trade deficit, but strong domestic demand brightened the outlook.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 2.2 percent annual pace, revised down
from the 2.6 percent pace estimated last month, the Commerce Department said
on Friday. The economy grew at a 5 percent rate in the third quarter.
Growth is poised to pick up in the first quarter now ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 US new-home sales collapse in March
April 23, 2015 - 12:35 PM
By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new U.S. homes plummeted in March, as the spring
buying season opened with sharp declines in the Northeast and South.
The Commerce Department said Thursday that new-home sales fell 11.4 percent
last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 481,000. This marks a
swift reversal from an annual sales pace of 543,000 in February, which had
been the strongest performance in seve... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 The UK results are in. The pollsters could not have been more wrong. The
expected result was a close vote and a hung parliament. Instead, Labour and
the Liberal Democrats got pounded. Here are the Final Tallies from the
Guardian.
In a surge of nationalism that will likely lead to a call for another
independence referendum, the Scotland National Party (SNP) won 56 seats of
59 seats.
Nigel Farage did not win his seat, but he will be around. So will UKIP. It
appears UKIP did not take votes from the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 For bank account holders in Zimbabwe, the government will do a forced
exchange of Zimbabwean dollars to US dollars at the rate 175 Quadrillion
Zimbabwean Dollars Per $5.00.
The Zimbabwean dollar will be taken from circulation, formalizing a
multi-currency system introduced in 2009 to help stem inflation and
stabilize the economy.
The central bank will offer $5 for every 175 quadrillion, or 175,000
trillion, Zimbabwean dollars, Governor John Mangudya said in an e-mailed
statement from the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 Lies, Damned Lies & The BLS Inflation Statistics
by Jim Quinn • July 20, 2015
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pageEmail this to someone
The government released their monthly CPI report this week. Even though it
came in at an annualized rate of 3.6%, they and their mouthpieces in the
corporate mainstream media dutifully downplayed the uptrend. They can’t let
the plebs know the truth. That might upend their economic recovery
storyline and put a crim... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 For 7 years, VW software thwarted pollution regulations
DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen became the world's top-selling carmaker
trumpeting the environmental friendliness, fuel efficiency and high
performance of diesel-powered vehicles that met America's tough Clean Air
laws.
VW's success story was so good that pollution-control advocates did their
own tests, hoping to persuade other countries to enforce the same strict
standards.
Instead, they got a foul-smelling surprise: In actual driving, the VWs
s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 Parts of central New York get up to 9 inches of snow
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Parts of central New York have received an early
taste of winter after some areas received up to 9 inches of snow over the
weekend, causing numerous accidents in the Syracuse area.
The highest snow totals Sunday were in the neighboring Oswego County towns
of Mexico and Parish, 25 miles north of Syracuse.
Police say Sunday's icy conditions caused more than 50 accidents in Syracuse
, including a pre-dawn crash on Interstate... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 Professor Calls For A Depression To Fight Global Warming
BY KERRY JACKSON
05:33 PM ET
Are those who continually hector us about saving our world from global
warming truly interested in the planet, or is there some other motive at
work? Quite clearly, it's the latter.
Sometimes the warming warriors will let their real reasons slip. Christiana
Figueres, executive secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, has admitted that the aim of climate activists is not to
save us fro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 China Blows Another $99 Billion of Reserves in January: Yuan Intervention
and Results in Pictures
Feb 2016
Posted by mishgea | February 7, 2016 11:49:30
China Blows $99.5 Billion Defending the Yuan in January
China has blown about $1 trillion in US reserves defending the yuan from
capital flight in the last year. Nearly $100 billion of that reserve outflow
came in January. Let’s s take a look at the results in pictures.
Intervention Results in Pictures
Interventions Don’t Work
From 6.214 to 6.5... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 From $10 Billion to Worthless in 8 Months: Solar Hype Financial Engineering
at Its Finest
Friday
Apr 2016
In one of the largest financial collapses in recent years, Sun Edison,
valued at $10 billion in July, now prepares for bankruptcy.
How do you do that?
Cheap money (thank the Fed) and financial engineering (thanks to company
wizards who no doubt saw this coming and cashed out long ago).
The Wall Street Journal notes SunEdison Preparing to File for Bankruptcy.
Solar-energy company SunEdison In... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 47 不只是从遗骸，不是还观测到 The airplane "swerved and then plunged" before
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