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Friday Blogaround
How did Sarah Palin do this week? How did your portfolio do this week? Let's see what the LC had to say.- A Blog Around The Clock: from telecommuting to co-working.
- archy: impressions of Sarah.
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Bark Bark Woof Woof
Friday Blogaround
Wall Street crumbles, John McCain suspends, and Sarah Palin will try to find you some of John McCain's reforms and bring them to you. So what does the LC have for us this week?- A Blog Around The Clock: rabid [...]
You honestly think that $700 billion is going to save anything? Considering they want the same conditions as what sent Wall Street into a crash of epic proportions?
I ask people; "At [...]
Times of India
Ahmedabad: Following its acquisition of US-based Minnesota Steel in 2007, Essar Steel Holdings Limited is all set to invest $1.6 billion in putting up North America's first mine-based steel plant at Minnesota's famed Iron Range.
Essar has rechristened Minnesota Steel, which has over 1.4 billion tonnes [...]
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Friday Blogaround
Let's find out if the rest of the Liberal Coalition knows where Spain is...and see what else they've been writing about this week.- A Blog Around The Clock: a school board -- yet again -- debates evolution [...]
MudflatsNever, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators). This was [...]
Kevin Drum At Mother Jones
But here's a thought. Why is it that Obama's ads don't try to play off the brand of the Republican Party instead? Claiming that McCain is just a shadow of Bush, whether it's true or not, is a tough sell. (All those years as a maverick, [...]
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has portrayed herself as a foe of pork-barrel spending, pointing in particular to her role in killing the $398 million "Bridge to Nowhere" between Ketchikan (pop. 7,400) and its airport on Gravina Island (pop. 50). [...]
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Friday Blogaround
Folks in Texas are bracing for Ike; I hope my pals in the Lone Star State are prepped, ready, or gone. [...]
The New York TimesWaves of selling wiped out nearly half of Lehman's value in the stock market on Tuesday, leaving the firm, one of the nation's oldest and largest investment banks, in an all-out fight for survival.
The plunge fanned worries about the troubles [...]
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Friday Blogaround
So, it's after Labor Day. Put away your white shoes and belts [...]
The New York Times
The government's planned takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, expected to be announced on Sunday, came together after advisers poring over the companies' books for the Treasury Department concluded that Freddie's accounting methods had overstated its capital cushion, according to regulatory officials briefed [...]
The New York TimesWell, here is another fine example of the stewardship [...]
The unemployment rate jumped to 6.1 percent in August, its highest level in five years, pushing the troubles of American workers to the center of the political debate as the presidential campaign enters its final weeks.
The New York Times
WASHINGTON -- Senior officials from the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve on Friday called in top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants, and told them that the government was preparing to place the two companies under federal control, [...]
