March 11, 2009
Remember the wind-powered rotating skyscrapers of Dubai? Well, the building boom in the Emirates is over, thanks to the financial crisis. Most of the huge and expensive construction projects have been cancelled or are on hold. Not only that, foreign laborers are being laid off at an astounding rate ...
Gates of Vienna
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Baron Bodissey
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Today, in a hearing room before (maybe) 50 people and with no "media elite" reporters present, a Congressional subcommittee finally pulled the curtain back on the single most effective counterfinancing measure in this decade, the joint Defense-Treasury counterthreat financing initiative. After cover...
Counterterrorism Blog
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Andrew Cochran
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Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...
John Hope Bryant
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john.bryant@operationhope.org (John Hope Bryant)
at 12:49 PM
Last week, I gave a talk in Milan and had the immense pleasure of sitting down to lunch with Davide Casaleggio and his colleagues, who work with provocateur, dissident and comedian Beppe Grillo on issues related to social justice and media in Italy. Now Davide sends along this call-to-action for blo...
Boing Boing
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Cory Doctorow
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energy, IT, Analysis Gregory T. Huang wrote: “If you’re a technology junkie, cleantech is the candy store for you,” said Byron McCann, co-founder and managing partner of Seattle-based Ascent Partners, an investment bank that advises cleantech and software entrepreneurs. McCann, who...
Xconomy
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Gregory T. Huang
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Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. This month we identify the nexus of the current economic problems and propose a solution to fix them. We discuss why we think our proposal would work, why some policy makers probably alread...
The Big Picture
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Barry Ritholtz
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The Department of Transportation's High Speed Ground Transportation (HSGT) program aims to finance high-speed rail connecting major urban centers at distances of 100 to 500 miles, with trains running at 150 - 250 mph. But a Washington Post front-pager offers disquieting numbers that give ...
Letter From The Capitol
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John Wohlstetter
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March 10, 2009
There’s a periodic discussion that weaves its way through the progressive blogosphere that goes like this: “How the hell can I make any money off my blog?” Sadly, the fact that we still have the discussion as often as we do means there have been no sure-fire answers found as of yet...
Boztopia.com
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Martin
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Jonah Keri has covered baseball, college basketball and other sports for a number of publications, including ESPN.com, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Penthouse, and Baseball Prospectus. He also writes the flagship stock market column for Investor's Business Daily, called "The Big Pictu...
FakeTeams
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rjk
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1797 Thomas Jefferson presents a paper on the Megalonyx to the American Philosophical Society. It will be published as “A Memoir on the Discovery of Certain Bones of a Quadruped of the Clawed Kind in the Western Parts of Virginia,” Transactions of American Philosophical Society 4:255-256...
The Great Geek Manual
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PipedreamerGrey
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