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Sun September 20, 2009
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News: John Thain, formerly of Merrill Lynch, admits he should have gone to IKEA to furnish his office. Fark: IKEA spokeswoman offered to show Thain around a store. UltraFark: And feed him Swedish meatballs (bloomberg.com)
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No Friday is complete without bank closures. Kentucky and Indiana bring the total this year to 94 (ozarksfirst.com)
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Pakistani terrorists continue to target Americans (boston.com)
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Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Countrywide) proposes legislation for a single U.S. bank regulator. It's like the public option and death panels, only it involves banks (reuters.com)
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Sat September 19, 2009
Fri September 18, 2009
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Man quits six-figure job as financial trader to run a hot dog stand. What a weener (news.bbc.co.uk)
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Kenya launches new campaign to attract foreign tourists, offering them chance to see herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains, stunning natural scenery and Barack Obama's birthplace (nation.co.ke)
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Best Buy's Geek Squad now offering exclusive "CD Ripping" service for consumers who find the concept too confusing (gizmodo.com.au)
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Did Bernanke save us from another Great Depression? (cato.org)
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"Japan freezes parts of stimulus package." Man, they ARE into freaky porn over there aren't they? (ctv.ca)
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Southwest Airlines saves $100,000 by dropping lemons in favor of limes (upi.com)
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Meet the $164 million facepalm (news.cnet.com)
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A month ago, everybody was celebrating the Cash for Clunkers program like it had made money fall from the sky. Now auto manufacturers are being splattered with the bird poop of reality (meltingpotproject.com)
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Thu September 17, 2009
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Dr. Evil to be summoned from his secret underground lair to explain how the world financial system nearly collapsed (reuters.com)
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It may not feel like it, but your household net worth just rose for the first time since 2007 (reuters.com)
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The housing industry is pushing for the $8,000 tax credit (bribe) to be increased to $15,000, and offered to everyone. There's another $100 billion of free "yay money" that even investors can get their hands on (msnbc.msn.com)
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New Jobless claims dropped almost as much as your 401k (news.yahoo.com)
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"Credit-default swaps -- the financial instrument that helped bring down AIG and played a key role in causing the biggest financial crisis since the 1930s -- are, a year after the fall of Lehman Brothers, back en vogue on Wall Street" (huffingtonpost.com)
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Abercrombie to sue Beyonce for trademark infringement. Lawyers for the company say they were originally going to sue Taylor Swift until Kanye West interrupted the filing and demanded they sue Beyonce instead (news.yahoo.com)
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Kodak board of directors meets in a dark room to process a $400 million cash injection from KKR. Story developing (marketwatch.com)
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Wed September 16, 2009
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The recession has hit celebrity branded fashion. Pray for Omarion jeans and hooded sweatshirts (online.wsj.com)
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The 10 most overused office buzzwords, according to one survey. By activating the "Voting Enabled" interface, Submitter hopes to create synergy to incentivize Fark stakeholders to provide outside-the-box suggestions for better ones (hotjobs.yahoo.com)
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Like anyone who has ever bought a Chrysler, Fiat finds that it's worse than they thought (money.cnn.com)
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How "Buy American" can hurt U.S. businesses. Wait, what? (online.wsj.com)
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FBI mortgage probe grows to 2,600 cases. So, if you were a mortgage broker from 2001-2007 you're probably going to prison (reuters.com)
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US farmers anticipate a corn harvest of such quality that a tidal wave of high fructose corn syrup will wash over the nation in a glorious wave of fattening goodness (apnews.myway.com)
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Authorities arrest a drug ring that used American Airlines to smuggle nearly 20,000 pounds of cocaine in suitcases. The street value of the drug was estimated at $19.95 once you subtracted the extra baggage fees (news.yahoo.com)
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T-Mobile caves to customer complaints about getting billed for getting billed (networkworld.com)
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Farmer loses $7 for every 100 pounds of milk he sells, hopes to make it up in volume (telegram.com)
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The collapse of Lehman Brothers is based on one thing: Waren Buffett doesn't know how to check his voicemail (blogs.wsj.com)
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British unemployment rate hits 7.9%. USA still in the lead... USA USA USA (finance.yahoo.com)
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Columnist says Count von Count played role in last year's Wall Street collapse. Yes, the Count from "Sesame Street" (cbc.ca)
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Tue September 15, 2009
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AP says "45% of Employees Don't Contribute to the Bottom Line" (giftandhomechannel.com)
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Blockbuster hit by Netflix and Redbox bunker buster, announces 22 percent of its stores will be closed by end of 2010, with $5.95/day penalty if deadline missed (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
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Proposed gas mileage requirements will add $1,300 to the price of a car but save more than twice that in gas, which should be a final, comforting thought as your plastic three-banger econobox is crushed by a semi (breitbart.com)
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Toys R Us to open hundreds of "pop-up" stores in malls nationwide, scare holy hell out of toddlers (wxyz.com)
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The debtors are revolting (consumerist.com)
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Turns out that homeowners who got themselves into trouble with their first mortgage aren't so hot at negotiating new ones, either (usatoday.com)
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Gorgon project will loom large off coast of Australia, be instrumental in defeating the Kraken (chron.com)
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Get ready for the double-dip recession. "The only thing that would really surprise me is a rapid and sustainable recovery from the position we're in." (ft.com)
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By trading "weather futures" you can get rich off the next Katrina (cnn.com)
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U.S. economic growth the slowest since the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor (bloomberg.com)
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McDonalds actually employs one of the top chefs in America, and it's his job to create innovative food that the average liberal arts major can assemble in three minutes or less (businessweek.com)
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Mon September 14, 2009
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Not News: Bank of America pays out $3.6 billion in bonuses and doesn't tell shareholders. News: SEC sues. Followup: SEC and BoA agree to $33 million fine. Fark: To be paid by shareholders. Judge: I don't think so (forbes.com)
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Examples include the "let's have a meeting before the meeting" colleague, the "I'm so sick but I'm too important to go home" worker, and the "I need to get into the lift before you can get out" person (abcnews.go.com)
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France Telecom has 23rd employee suicide in 18 months - woman threw herself from sixth-floor window of Paris building into river; must have been in Seine (forbes.com)
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Little known law that went into effect last February is crippling American small businesses and Congress refuses to even discuss it with them (online.wsj.com)
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"US authorities were right to allow Lehman Brothers to fail. When it comes to saving failing companies, governments should err on the side of inaction." (ft.com)
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Stocks set for grouchy start. Expected to perk up after noon when NYSE will be visited by a giant bird and his imaginary friend who's said to look like an adolescent wooly mammoth (money.cnn.com)
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Repeal of blue laws urged. "It gives customers a chance to come out before the sun gets high overhead and take care of what they need to take care of and sit down and watch football for a change." (nbcaugusta.com)
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Pace of new stimulus spending slows, forcing pundits to come up with new metaphors to describe things that are slower than things that are slower than molasses (abcnews.go.com)
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