US consumers’ standard of living may drop as they pay more for foreign goods, but demand for American labor will rise, say economists. Last week, after the Federal Reserve reduced interest rates, the dollar fell to a level not seen since 1997. The Canadian loonie is now stronger than the dollar for the first […]
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Writing to Congress is the single best way to express your view on public policy. The average consumer has a surprising ability to influence legislation by crafting a well written missive and avoiding several common mistakes.
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The Nasdaq Stock Market is selling a nearly 20 percent stake to Borse Dubai and is taking control of the Nordic exchange operator OMX as part of a sweeping settlement of their battle for control of OMX. In a global stock market shakeup, Borse Dubai and a group from Qatar also moved to become […]
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Hopefully you get to wear gloves!
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Not since decades ago has the Canadian dollar been worth more than the American Dollar, a sign of changing times? More like a sign that Bush is failing America.
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The former Fed chairman walked through some of the basics of the economy, including Stewart
s straightforward question (to which he gets a refreshingly straightforward & comprehensive answer): Why do we have a Fed? Why do we have someone adjusting the rates if were a free-market society? Partial Transcript and Embedded Video of Interview.
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An all new meeting, with all new comments…FIRST!
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Mr. Nardelli said, he can see a connection between housing woes and the automobile market. And apparently, making crappy cars has nothing to do with declining sales.
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"We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told ZDNet "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004."
Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered. “Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast.