"New polls by Quinnipiac/WaPo/WSJ find Obama with small leads in the battleground states of Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. All surveys were conducted September 14-21 with margins of error of +/-2.6% - 2.7%: Colorado Obama 49 (+3 vs. last poll August 24) McCain...
Sooner or late this bubble has to burst. It could be the markets will take fright when they really think President Obama is going to be elected, or afterwards when they sober up. But I would short US markets going forward.
Fewer Starbucks will do us all a world of good, by forcing us to walk that extra ten steps to the Starbucks on the next corner. "Starbucks Corp said on Wednesday it would slash U.S. coffee store openings through 2011...
"With oil set to break through the $120 mark and pump prices forecast to hit $4 bucks or more a gallon, Presidential candidate John McCain has called for all levels of government to remove their tax on gas. While...
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"Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the sixteenth-century painting.
But art historians have often wondered whether the...
Motley Fool earlier today reported that the category-busting movie-rental supplier NetFlix is having its share of problems. Not only is its share price having some difficulties, but its website crashed last night and has still not recovered (as of publication time of this...
"Sunday, April 29, 2007
Muslim Brotherhood activist and blogger Ibrahim El Houdaiby expressed support and solidarity with blogger Sandmonkey, who decided to stop blogging after being intimidated by Egyptian...
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"Accountability Act
When do the troops get the money?
Friday, March 30, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
Congress leaves for Easter recess today, with Democrats congratulating themselves for having endorsed, by the narrowest of margins, "a deadline" for withdrawal from Iraq. The press...
Anything Leon Hadar writes on the Middle East is worth reading."
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"It is always heartbreaking, as a student, to spend thousands of dollars on a stack of textbooks that you know you wont really read. I do know that I had hours of fun decorating the margins of my Supply Chain Management text with neon purple highlighter. That has to be worth...
"AOL and Microsoft are wooing indie-rock fans to help solidify their digital music strategies.
Corporations seeking indie cred are nothing new. But both bids come at critical times for the technology giants.
AOL, in the midst of shifting from an Internet service provider...