I sit and wonder…. how is it that these people have been caught of breaking the law and still they sit in office as if they are as clean as a fresh virgin snow?  The Ethics committee finds them guilty and yet there they are, on the tv telling us all the great things they are doing for us.  T...

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Prada SpA is falling out of fashion six months into its Hong Kong trading debut as investors brace for Chinese shoppers to curb spending. Shares of the maker of $2,000 bags and Miu Miu shoes, which gets more than 42 percent of sales from Asia , have dropped 34 percent from its July peak. The s...

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While he is in no way as moronic as the Glickenhausen , who continue to defend Chinese reverse-merger fraud posterboy China Agritech ( CAGC ) (Read Bronte Capital on China Agritech here , read about CAGC ‘s CFO Gareth Yau-Sing Tang , superstar Director Gene Mich...

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** Huzzah (or something) Nevada’s worn the dubious crown of The Highest Foreclosure State in the entire United States of America for five years. [ LV Sun/Vegas Inc. ]  CoreLogic adds this bit of information to its report on foreclosures: “Median income fell by 2.3 percent from...

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Sentiment among Japan ’s largest manufacturers deteriorated more than economists expected, underscoring the fragility of a post-quake recovery. The Tankan large manufacturer index fell to minus 4 from 2, the Bank of Japan (8301) said today in Tokyo. The median estimate of 24 econo...

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Standard Chartered Plc (STAN) plans to increase takeover financing for Indian companies as it seeks to gain ground in mergers advisory in emerging markets on rivals weakened by Europe ’s credit crisis. “As the world goes through this turmoil, banks like ours which do have the cap...

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U.K. regulators pushed for new powers to automatically sanction senior bank executives as well as increased oversight of financial mergers as part of a report on the near collapse of  Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc. (RBS) Automatic sanctions for poor decisions that lead to a bank failu...

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Yesterday the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released it’s monthly index of global food prices .  When the current price spike is compared with the one that occurred in 2007/8, the striking difference is the persistence of relatively high prices.  Rather than falling rap...

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On November 27, bloomberg News reported the results of its successful case to force the Federal Reserve to reveal the lending details of its 2008-09 bank bailout.  bloomberg reported that by March 2009, the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion in below-market loans and guarantees to rescuing the fina...

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Obama: Rich Hurting Middle Class! – AP Facebook Reveals Private Photos – bloomberg Romney Refuses Trump – New York Times Government Keeping Record of Your Tweets – Avalon Senate GOP Turn Down Obama Judge Pick – Fox News......

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