Did anyone hear about this?  I just saw it in my Yahoo newsfeed: National heritage day honors American Indians By MARY HUDETZ, Associated Press Writer  – Fri Nov 28, 8:10 am ET PORTLAND, Ore. – For the first time, federal legislation has set aside the day after Thanksgiving — for thi...

Worries about the fate of Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE), the two biggest mortgage lenders in the United States, reverberated through currency markets on Friday as investors failed to be moved by statements from US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson an US President George W. Bush t...

Filed under: Forecasts, Bad news, Commodities, Oil, Federal Reserve, Recession The dollar plunged Friday after Morgan Stanley said oil prices could rise to $150 and after data indicated the U.S. employment rate surged to 5.5% in May. The dollar fell one cent versus the euro to $1.5694 and about thre...

Can you draw me the shape of love?   *   John Donne was right after all; the body is the book. He is written into me, into every line and recess, scored into hair skin bone, etched on the pattern of the cell, carved on the door of the heart. My fingertips are branded with his name. He read...

We were discussing etiquette for different social communities the other day. @SarahHutton was saying how it’s kind of weird & creepy on Facebook to receive a friend request from someone you don’t know, but on Twitter, it’s like, oooh! New follower! Cool! And then I thought of unspoken rule...

The US dollar continued its declines on Thursday as it hit another new low versus the euro, dropped below ¥100 for the first time since 1995, and pulled nearly even versus the Swiss franc. The new declines for the greenback came after the announcement that lenders will seize the asses of a mortgage...

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Filed under: Jewelry, Designers, Interviews I'm a big fan of all of the amazing independent designers out there. The little guys who are working so hard to compete with mainstream fashion labels to earn your respect and your own hard-earned dollars. These designers often do so while juggling 9-5 job...

The Dow plunged today on more recessionary fears that the ISM Services placed on the market. It showed that the Services sector (which accounts for 88% of the U.S. economy) fell into a deep contraction with a reading of 41.9. A reading of 50 or below is the "bust" level. Above 50 means the...

Developing a strategy to drive viral adoption and executable monetization of new user-centric applications is the holy grail in the emerging enterprise applications market.  The marketing strategies and business models of yesterday's industrial information economy and optimized by today's enter...