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Can't do much about it. Tastes like chicken.
Sun July 19, 2009
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Not content with running GM and Chrysler to the ground, auto workers union readies against Atlantic City casinos (wcbstv.com)
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June report: The impact of three simultaneous, asynchronous and non-parallel economic "rogue waves" will soon be realized in the U.S. by the end of summer 2009 and rip it to shreds (leap2020.eu)
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HD-DVD is so dead that Toshiba is releasing a Blu ray player (gizmodo.com)
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Begun, the beer wars have (cbc.ca)
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State temporarily shuts down large autoplex for failing to pay off $650,000 in loans owed on trade in vehicles even after reselling them. Maybe Jerry Lundegaard should do a lot count (greeleytribune.com)
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Volkswagen buys Porsche for $11.28 billion. Mid-life crisis accomplished (reuters.com)
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Sat July 18, 2009
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Brand extensions that maybe just don't quite work... or maybe they do. Like NASCAR romance novels (online.wsj.com)
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JetAmerica executives: "Hmmm......maybe, now I'm just brainstorming here.....but maybe the reason we need to suspend operations is because we didn't really think though our "$9 airfares" promotion (usatoday.com)
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Urban Expressions responds to a customer's complaint by A) saying they'll look into it; B) ignoring the complaint; or C) calling her a farking whore (consumerist.com)
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JetAmerica cancels entire route network after FAA disagrees with their "we don't have to buy slots like other airlines because we're special" argument (toledoblade.com)
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The hotter the climate, the slower the economy. Here comes the science (npr.org)
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Companies position themselves for millions of unemployed people to suddenly become employed, buy their crap (cfo.com)
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Analyst sees oil going to $20 in the near future on worries of a supply glut. Here comes the $1/gal gasoline (dailyfinance.com)
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It just wouldn't be Friday without a story about a failed bank, we're up to 55 for those keeping score at home (finance.yahoo.com)
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Fri July 17, 2009
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Citigroup turns a $45 billion taxpayer bailout into a $4.6 billion profit. *POOF* magic (money.cnn.com)
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Bank of America is the latest bank to beat earnings expectations, thanks to unlimited supply of free money from you, the taxpayer. As a token of their gratitude, BofA will only raise your credit card APR to 19.9% (businessinsider.com)
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GE: We bring $45 billion of commercial real-estate losses to life (businessinsider.com)
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Wichita unemployment hits 8.5%. As Wichita falls... so falls Wichita Falls (bizjournals.com)
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Chinese debt auction fails for the third time in a row, spiking interest rates. And so it begins (bloomberg.com)
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Dos Equis 'Most Interesting Man' has led to double digit sales increases during a recession. Only one tag can do this story justice (adage.com)
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Thu July 16, 2009
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Canada says Facebook breaks national privacy laws by retaining personal information for closed accounts. Facebook responds by pointing out Canada isn't even a real country anyway (news.com.au)
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Starbucks adds alcohol to menu. Patrons look forward to $50 pint of beer (seattlepi.com)
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People should keep tipping even in the bad economy says aspiring Hollywood actresses, college dropouts (msnbc.msn.com)
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Step 1: Make a killing at your Casino's grand opening because you said Justin Timberlake was going to be there. Step 2: Get fined a mere $40,000 because you knew Justin wasn't going to show up. Step 3: Profit (indystar.com)
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Your tax dollars hard at work: Congress wants to force GM and Chrysler to resume the business practices that caused their bankruptcy as part of the bailout (bloomberg.com)
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Wall Street Journal publishes guide to "Getting Into the Top Prisons." Next week in this series, "Kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's biatch" (online.wsj.com)
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New Wal-Mart overwhelms customers: "The meat section stretches farther than a football field." (phillyburbs.com)
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Satellite company uses pre-wedding photo without permission of couple to sell satellite dishes. Turns out they were murdered while on honeymoon a week after photo was taken. Awkward (walesonline.co.uk)
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Harley-Davidson axes 1,000 jobs as consumers turn away from bikes that represent the pinnacle of 1955 engineering and leak more oil than the Exxon Valdez (business.timesonline.co.uk)
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Electrolux second-quarter earnings sucked (earthtimes.org)
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If you're looking to break into real estate and are good at plumbing leaks, the Watergate is up for auction today. Don't let some east coast Harvard elitist snag it away (washingtonpost.com)
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First time jobless claims drop, since by now everyone has tried it (marketwatch.com)
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Signs the recession is over, median home prices up 6.5% over a one month period (www3.signonsandiego.com)
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Sears Tower now named Willis Tower. Surely there is a joke somewhere in here, if only we knew what they were talking about (msnbc.msn.com)
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The economy is so bad in Kentucky they've run out of numbers to describe it (hosted.ap.org)
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Judge dismisses Donald Trump's lawsuit against an author who wrote that Trump is a millionaire, not a billionaire.The judge did not rule on how much Trump is actually worth. But after legal fees, you do the math (wptv.com)
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JPMorgan Chase profits rise 36 percent, proving there's nothing a trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout can't do (bloomberg.com)
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It turns out the FCC is too busy chasing nipples and cuss words on TV to deal with consumer complaints about wireless phone service. Go figure (mcall.com)
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Survey of 100 top execs reveals that just one spelling mistake is enough to send your resume to the trash bin. Looks like the grammer nazis were right after all (reuters.com)
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Wed July 15, 2009
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In the best economic news since the start of the recession, fancy steak prices are now down to the lowest level in years. Your dog wants USDA Prime (online.wsj.com)
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Moody's downgrades California's bond ratings to "Rob Schneider movie" (reuters.com)
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After assuring America the federal government wouldn't be making management decisions at GM or Chrysler, Congress prepares to make a management decision at GM and Chrysler (washingtonpost.com)
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Pez Candy Corp responds to custom made "Worlds Largest Pez Dispenser" Do they? (A) Praise the owner (B) Build a larger one (C) Sue the owner out of business and demand it be destroyed (mercurynews.com)
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Tue July 14, 2009
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Wells Fargo quietly sells $600 million in bad subprime loans to some dumbass in California. That's step 1 and 3 (bizjournals.com)
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FedEx is sending 98 drivers to the National Truck Driving Championships. I wonder how much the shipping cost will be for that (businesswire.com)
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Today's "81 year-old billionaire being sued for theft after he allegedly stole a 3 by 5 foot slab of concrete which he scratched his name in when he was a youngster" brought to you by Oklahoma, by way of Texas (hosted.ap.org)
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Ever wonder why credit card companies force you to agree to arbitration clauses? It might be due to their 99.83% win ratio. Just a hunch (startribune.com)
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SEC head outlines new enforcement efforts, no mention of PAC-10. Duke sucks (finance.yahoo.com)
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Fox News anchor fearlessly grills Rupert Murdoch over allegations that his newspapers engaged in illegal phone-hacking. For about three seconds, before crapping his pants (blogs.ft.com)
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Goldman Sachs posts a record profit, which just goes to show what you could accomplish with a little initiative, $10 billion in government bailout funds, and a direct line to the US Treasury through AIG (bloomberg.com)
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Stocks drop on news Obama didn't really look at the 16 year olds butt (money.cnn.com)
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Hundred-million-dollar ad campaign? Bing. Raised brand awareness? Bing. People still like Google better? BING (businessinsider.com)
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Burger King promises franchisees less offensive advertising if they agree to an unprofitable $1 double cheeseburger that will lose them money. But they'll make it up in volume (adage.com)
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Hey UK, welcome to Deflationville - population: you (telegraph.co.uk)
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Remember how CIT Group wasn't too big too fail? Yeah, funny thing about that (marketwatch.com)
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In the surest sign yet of economic recovery, bacon sales are "soaring" (thisismoney.co.uk)
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Confirmation of a new Porsche station wagon* comes from a video game. *Eye bleach is included in the convenience package, $6,565 (autoblog.com)
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In another attempt by the media to make words up, "twinterns" whose job it is to Twitter about their company (msnbc.msn.com)
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BusinessWeek may be sold for $1. That's not for one copy of the magazine, it's for the entire publication (ft.com)
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There once were some homes in Nantucket, and all the buyers said... well, you know (businessinsider.com)
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GM's newest model, the Camaro SS has the best reliability in auto industry. Just Kidding: Their transmissions are imploding. GM stops factory line to figure out the problem (autoblog.com)
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Mon July 13, 2009
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Turns out the "new" Chrysler is going to keep the Viper after all. Also plan on keeping the PT Cruiser for some reason (blogs.wsj.com)
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Miniature economist Robert Reich: Senate committee must soon report a health care bill that has a public option and a tax source. Or we'll all die in pain and misery, or some such (tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com)
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Facebook employees offered $100 million for their shares. To put this in perspective, Fark makes more in profit than Facebook (bloomberg.com)
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Commodities rise as dollar drops. This is the equivalent of your grandmother stuffing her mattress with cash from social security checks (bloomberg.com)
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Oil falls to eight week low on news that Michael Jackson was a ghey (bloomberg.com)
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Despite Microsoft's resounding success with Vista, 60% of companies plan to skip Windows 7 (tech.yahoo.com)
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Bank of America tries the old "but we never signed the agreement" trick to avoid paying $4 billion it owes to taxpayers (businessinsider.com)
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Upon further review, 52,000 of America's richest people don't have to pay taxes like the rest of us. Here comes the revolution (reuters.com)
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