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Forex Price in a Snap

Careers & Jobs – A comprehensive guide into Forex Prices. Recommended to beginners in the foreign exchange trade market.

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How Ignorant Are We?

Politics – "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson Just how stupid are we? Pretty stupid, it would seem, when we come across…

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Roundtable: 'How to stop the next bubble'

Money – The financial crisis has shown that markets are bubble-prone and that laissez-faire regulation doesn't work.

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Microeconomics as well as Macroeconomics help

Careers & Jobs – Wonderful resourse for economics help. It has an index also for Microeconomics as well as Macroeconomics.

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In the Absence of Private Property Rights

Money – Instead of recognizing private property as the foundation of economic cooperation and progress, people commonly see it as the source of economic problems actually caused by the lack of well-defined and enforced…

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Six down, six to go...trillion dollars!

Money – America's economic misery index is fast climbing, yet most people still discount the current state of economic affairs as an "oil crisis," or a "housing crush," or a "credit crunch," or simply one more "mild recession"

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Interconnected we prosper

Do No Evil – The World Bank recently revisited its "dollar a day" global poverty yardstick and came to a startling conclusion: It was wrong when it said some 250 million people in China had escaped from severe poverty between…

Tax-dodging of the Rich and Famous
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Tax-dodging of the Rich and Famous

Money – When it comes to not paying taxes there are two options: tax evasion, the illegal method, and tax avoidance, the legal method. Both are prevalent throughout the world but condemnation is growing and pressure on…

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McCain Doesn't Know Electric Cars or Economics

Politics – McCain, in a speech Monday, demonstrated a lack of understanding not only of the barriers to consumers buying electric cars, but of basic economics. His campaign staff and advisers demonstrated that they are incompetent.

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10 Forex Trading Myths That Just Won't Die

Money – There is a terrific amount of information on the internet surrounding forex, but much of it should be treated with skepticism. In order to end the confusion and speculations, this article has come up with a definitive…

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ATTACK heart of failed GOP economic faith

News – Deregulation, privatization, low taxes on the wealthy and corporations, anti-unions (both domestic and foreign)--which of these has been a success for average Americans?

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The Role of Public Finance in Economics

Money – Public finance deals with the finances of public. It thus deals with the finances of government. The finances of the government include the raising and disbursement of government funds. It is concerned with the…

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Oil Block Induced Profit Inflation - Crumbling Economy

Politics – Immediately nationalize all the oil companies whose corporate offices reside within the borders of the United States.

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The Oil Follies

Money – Economic illiteracy has always been a hallmark of government, and the current set of actors in Washington, DC is no exception. In these troubled times, one wishes that someone in political authority had even an…

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The Great Banking Pyramid Game is Over. There won't be a…

Money – Interview with Dr Michael Hudson - Dennis Kucinich's Chief Economic Advisor in the recent Democratic primary presidential campaign, advisor to many governments and author of several books.

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Vercingetorix

Politics – Vercingetorix was the leader of the Gauls who dared to rebel against the mighty Roman Republic. Irrational? Sure, but also dignified. The pursuit of dignity often entails the irrational. But we in Bangladesh are…

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Scientists believe Mars lander exposed some ice crumbs

Science – LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Scientists believe NASA's Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission's principal investigator said Thursday.

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"This isn't shareholders' oil, this is our oil."

News – This level of ignorance is both profound and unsettling.

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GAO finds tax abuse within Medicare program

Health & Fitness – WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of hospitals, nursing homes and other Medicare health providers owe the federal government more than $2 billion in payroll and other back taxes.

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The endowment effect - "It's mine, I tell you"

Science – Mankind's inner chimpanzee refuses to let go. This matters to everything from economics to law.

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Myth-makers caught short in oil speculation

Do No Evil – As in military science there is the danger of "fighting the last war", so in economic science there is the danger of puncturing the last bubble. This is especially hazardous when what one has is not, in fact, a…

Why The Gods Are Not Winning
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Why The Gods Are Not Winning

Religion – Disbelief now rivals the great faiths in numbers and influence. Never before has religion faced such enormous levels of disbelief, or faced a hazard as powerful as that posed by modernity. The religious industry…

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Scarcity in an age of plenty

Politics – As food and fuel prices continue to increase the world must look to new patterns of consumption and production. The methods attempted by the Bush administration have been a clear failure.

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Obama's Chicago Boys

Money – Obama has appointed "Chicago Boys" who support neo-liberal economic policies as his economic advisers. Now is the time to worry about their commitment to fending off serious attempts at regulation. Before Obama…

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73,000 homes lost to foreclosure in May

Money – Filings for the month jumped by 48%. Nevada, California, and Florida continue to bear the brunt of the crisis.

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