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U.S. Sells 3-Year Notes at Record Low Yield (Daniel Kruger and Susanne Walker)
Sep 12, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury 10-year note yields rose from a record low on speculation China may seek to buy more European bonds, easing the haven appeal for investors in U.S. government ...
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Seeing Stars (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Sept. 12, 2011 -- I don't want to be party pooper, but is it possible that all the 9/11 remembrance hoopla was a kind of weekend refuge from reality for ...
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We Are in 'Worse Situation' Than in 2008: Roubini
Sept. 2, 2011 (CNBC.com) -- The world’s developed economies are trapped at the “stall speed” of low growth and need to have greater fiscal stimulus and less austerity to kick-start growth, leading ...
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American Decline: Causes and Consequences (Noam Chomsky)
US soldiers gather near a destroyed vehicle and protect their faces from rotor wash, as their wounded comrades are airlifted by a Medevac helicopter. (Photo: AFP - Johannes Eisele) Aug. 26, 2011 ...
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Stocks, Euro Tumble on Greece Debt Concern (Stuart Wallace and Rita Nazareth)
Sept. 9, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks sank, while the euro slid to a ten-year low versus the yen and a six-month low against the dollar, as concern grew about Greece’s debt crisis. European bank and ...
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August consumer sentiment drops to 3-year low (Kerry Panchuk)
Aug. 26, 2011 (HousingWire) -- Consumer sentiment in the U.S. plunged to the lowest level in three years according to a Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey. The final August reading on the ...
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NASA's Cassini orbiter snaps unbelievable picture of Saturn (Mike Wehner)
Sometimes reality is just as stunning as science fiction Sept. 8, 2011 (tecca.com)-- Science fiction movies have spoiled us on high definition views of our planetary neighbors, but real-life ...
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For the Love of Israel: Congresswoman’s Misguided War on the UN (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 7, 2011 -- From an Israeli point of view, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the ideal American politician. Although many in the U.S. government aspire to ...
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Libya’s Next Fight: Overcoming Western Designs (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2011 -- At a press conference in Tripoli Aug. 26, a statement read aloud by top Libyan rebel commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj was reassuring. Just a few months ...
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The Miserable Ones (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2011 -- I’m going to tell you a story today, it’s a story about you and me and it’s a story about a father and son. In a larger sense it’s a story about ...
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Perestroika (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Sept. 5, 2011 -- There's a difference, of course, between what this country thinks it needs and what it's going to get. The world has a way of dragging you, ...
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