Money & Markets
New Era Dawns for Rail Building
By Daniel Machalaba – Wall Street Journal (13 Feb 2008)AIG Falls on Concern Losses My Have Been Understated
By Hugh Son & Jessee Westbrook – Bloomberg.com (15 Feb 2008)Ben Bernanke Signals Further US Rate Cuts
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (15 Feb 2008)Banks Advised to Walk Away form Big Deals
By Henny Sender – Financial Times.com (14 Feb 2008)Bond Insurer FGIC Seeks Go-Ahead for Split
By Aline Van Duyn & Michael Mackenzie – Financial Times.com (14 Feb 2008)Police Say Fire Engulfs Iraqi Central Bank
Reported by Aseel Kami & Waleed Ibrahim – International Herald Tribune (28 Jan 2008)Debt Crisis Spreads to US Municipalities
By Aline van Duyn & Michael Mackenzie – Financial Times, London (13 Feb 2008)Rescue Plan to Save Deutsch Industrie Bank
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (14 Feb 2008)Let the Sunshine on Governments Contracts
By Ralph Nader – Dandelion Salad (11 Feb 2008)Georgetown University Confirms Auction of Floaters Fails
By Anastasija Johnson, et al – Reuters (30 Jan 2008)Iran to Launch Oil Bourse Next Week
Press TV (13 Feb 2008)Governments Said Ready to Intervene if Markets Become ‘Irrational’
Report from the G7 Meeting in Brussels – Reuters (11 Feb 2008)20 States Face Total Budget Shortfall of at Least $34Bn in 2009
By Elizabeth C. McNichol & Iris Lav – Center of Budget & Policy Priorities (11 Feb 2008)AIG Discloses ‘Weakness’ in Derivative Accounting
By Hugh Son – Bloomberg.com (11 Feb 2008)Saudi Official Says Riyal’s Peg to Dollar Will Continue
By Michael Peltier – Reuters (11 Feb 2008)G7 ‘Will Not Seek Coordinated Action on Fears of Global Economic Slowdown’
By Justin McCurry – Guardian.co.uk (8 Feb 2008)German Bank Gets $7.2Bn Bailout
By Carter Doughtery – New York Times (9 Feb 2008)Yahoo Board to Spurn $44B Microsoft Bid
By Michael Liedtke – Associated Press (10 Feb 2008)Creators of Credit Crisis Revel in Las Vegas
By John Devaney – New York Times (8 Feb 2008)Ten Traits That Make You Filthy-Rich
By Jeffrey Strain – TheStreet.com (1 Feb 2008)Recession Road Trip
By David Whitford – CNNMoney.com (8 Feb 2008)OPEC Chief Muses About Gradually Switching Oil Pricing to Euros
By Perry Williams – Middle East Economic Digest (8 Feb 2008)Philanthropy From Closely Held Businesses: Refining Oil From Shale
By Phil Cubeta – Gift Hub (8 Feb 2008)D Bank Warns of Monoline ‘Tsunami’
By Chris Hughes – Financial Times, London (8 Feb 2008)"Euros Accepted" Signs Pop Up in New York City
From Reuters (6 Feb 2008)Why the US Has Really Gone Broke
By Chalmers Johnson – Le Monde Deplomatique (Feb 2008)
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Precious Metals
Gold and Deflation: A dissenting Dissection
By Bob Landis – Golden Sextant.comMobilization of IMF Gold Just a Sign of Central Bank Desperation
By Chris Powell – GATA (9 Feb 2008)
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Mortgage Market
US Credit Crisis Escalates as Defaults Spread
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (13 Feb 2008)xx
UBS Confirms Fourth-Quarter Loss On Subprime-Related Write-Downs
By Katharina Bart – Wall Street Journal (14 Feb 2008)Toll Relative Walks Away From New Condo – Filing
By Martha Graybow – Reuters (11 Feb 2008)Japan is the Next Sub-Prime Flashpoint
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (10 Feb 2008)_________________________________________________________
Food & Health
Symptoms of Fluoride Poisioning
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Life
9-11 Rescue Workers Need Our Help
By David Swanson – AfterDowningStreet.org (15 Feb 2008)Restoring Health & Beauty to Forestlands in Montana’s Wildland-Urban Interface
From Comprehensive ForestryBeyonce & Tina Turner Grammy 2008
Learning to Lie
By Po Bronson – New York Magazine (10 Feb 2008)RIM Reports "Critical" BlackBerry Outage
By Wojtek Dabrowski – Reuters (11 Feb 2008)
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Geopolitical
Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers
By Eric Lichtblau – New York Times (13 Feb 2008)Anchor Baby ~ From Wikipedia
Berkeley to Decide on Revoking Marines Letter
By Carolyn Jones – SFGate.coom (12 Feb 2008)Real ID Act a Real Intrusion of Rights, Privacy
By Bob Barr – Dandelion Salad (13 Feb 2008)‘Popsicle Index’ Can Gauge Vote
By Mike Linton – Murfreesboro Daily News (31 Jan 2008)
MTSU School of Music, Murfreesboro, TennesseeUS Charges 6 for Roles in 9/11 Attacks
By Pauline Jelinek – Associated Press (11 Feb 2008)FAQ: Sussing Out Superdelegates
By Matt Phillips – Wall Street Journal (7 Feb 2008)Rule by Fear or Rule by Law?
By Lewis Seiler & Dan Hamburg – San Francisco Chronicle (4 Feb 2008)EFF and Chums Sue Feds Over Border Laptop Inspections
By Kelly Fiveash – The Register (8 Feb 2008)Survival in Times of Uncertainty: Growing Up in Russia in the 1990s
By Legal Alien – Sott.net (24 Jan 2008)
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