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By Javier Blas and William MacNamara The rise of China and India has sparked a renewed surge in aggressive dealmaking in the resources sector, with

George Soros has slashed the amount of money he is willing to gamble on the fortunes of the US stock market in the second quarter

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Wasn’t the new health care reform law supposed to make health care more affordable for everyone?  Well, imagine my surprise when I opened up a

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Here’s what John [Williams of Shadowstats.com] has to say about both the gold and silver price… Despite the June 28th historic high gold price of

Prayer heals when it’s close-up and personal, and there’s a study to prove it. It’s not just any kind of prayer, but “proximal intercessory prayer,”

With midterm elections less than three months away, nearly two-out-of-three U.S. voters (65%) remain at least somewhat angry at the current policies of the federal

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By  Daniel Kreps The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will celebrate its 15th anniversary in part with a new Elvis Presley exhibit set to

By Robert Preidt American parents are more likely than European parents to have conflicts with their adult children, finds a new study. Researchers examined parent-adult

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While analyzing HFT (High Frequency Trading) quote counts, we were shocked to find cases where one exchange was sending an extremely high number of quotes

By Tyler Durden In what could be the most important news of the day, German Die Zeit reports that, in a stunning move, the EU

“It’s a culture of do-it-yourself, organize it yourself. It’s a new economic culture. Don’t give up the value of your life for the value of

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Out-of-touch leaders don’t see the need to cool things off. By Peggy Noonan It is, obviously, self-referential to quote yourself, but I do it to

By Helen Jung It’s hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red.

By Jessica E. Vascellaro A confidential, seven-page Google Inc. “vision statement” shows the information-age giant in a deep round of soul-searching over a basic question:

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[More proposals and meetings in the “grind down your time and resources” mode – CAF] Come to the meeting and make your voice heard! Wednesday,

By Joe Weisenthal Nothing to see here, except yet another sign of the food inflation that’s the story of the moment. JPMorgan retail analyst Charles

By Hilary Johnson For years, wealthy retirees from high-tax states in the Northeast and Midwest have been streaming to sunny, low-tax Florida. That stream is

So Google and Verizon went public today with their “policy framework” — better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it.

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The oil well cap is fine. The relief well is fine. The new BP CEO is fine The ocean is fine. The stories about the

By Ken Sweet Four prominent members of the U.S. Senate introduced a bill Thursday that would strike the provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that potentially

By Tyler Durden CNBC notes the apparent cause of death of the recently popular BP skeptic, and founder of oil company Simmons & Co., was

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By Steve Watson Highlights “potential resistance” on road from “voluntary multilateral framework” to full blown global currency. A newly published IMF strategy document calls for

Scientists behind the European atom smasher aimed at uncovering the secrets of the universe want to build an even bigger machine with partners and funds

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By Matt Katz Camden is preparing to permanently shut its library system by the end of the year, potentially leaving residents of the impoverished city

By Caroline Salas and Jody Shenn For all the good the Federal Reserve’s $1.25 trillion of mortgage-bond purchases have done, they’ve also left part of

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I went to the polls on Thursday. My candidate for sheriff won! The expensive negative campaigning did not work — indeed it may have even

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