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Throwdown: Bank of America vs. JPMorgan

Bač :: Serbia | 25 days ago

Fools, the panic of 2008 has created opportunities for long-term-focused investors...One picked up Countrywide when it looked ready to fail, the other picked up WaMu when it did fail. MER ) before a pending disaster, the other bought Bear Stearns after...

Pakistan thanks int´l support after quake hit

Karāchi :: Pakistan | about 1 month ago

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani has thanked other nations for their offers of support and quake relief aid. Meanwhile, survivors of the quake in Baluchistan Province have been gathering at mass graves to pay their last respect to the dead. Gillani...

Apprentice at helm in crash that closed Miss. River says he ran towboats without supervision

New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 month ago

An improperly licensed and overworked towboat pilot said Tuesday that radar and steering lever problems led him to veer his tug into the path of a tanker along the Mississippi River, leading to a crash and oil spill that shut the major waterway for days.

French bank admits trading loss

Paris :: France | about 1 month ago

In a statement, the bank said that the losses would not threaten its financial viability or affect its customers. It blamed the extreme volatility in the markets in the week of 6 October for the incident. Caisse d'Epargne is in the process of merging...

IT’S THE DERIVATIVES, STUPID!

Yuba City :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago

Posted by michael144

WHY FANNIE, FREDDIE AND AIG ALL HAD TO BE BAILED OUT Ellen Brown, September 18, 2008www.webofdebt.com/articles/its_the_derivatives.php “I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.”– Sir Isaac...

Al-Qaeda Breeding Ground

Mardān :: Pakistan | 2 months ago

Posted by amumtaz

As I stepped out of my car into a vast field of old and ragged tents, just outside Mardan city, I was shocked to see thousands of displaced refugees from Bajaur and Swat vallies in the North West of Pakistan. They were literally forced out of their homes...

12 killed in Landslide in Southern Mindanao.

Davao :: Philippines | 2 months ago

Posted by cherryconcon

A series of landslide hit Poblacion Masara in Maco, Compostela Valley (Comval) at three in the afternoon on September 6 burying 7 people. At dawn the following day, September 7, a subsequent landslide hit the same area burying at least 5...

Philippine residents forced out of landslide area

Manila :: Philippines | 2 months ago

Landslides killed at least 20 people, injured about two dozen others and destroyed scores of houses in Masara Village in Compostella Valley.

A Nut with his Finger on the Nuclear Button

Islamabad :: Pakistan | 3 months ago

Posted by livewire

Asif Zardari, the spouse of the late charismatic Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was declared severely depressed and delusional by a London Court. To support this contention, and get him an acquittal on a corruption case, Zardari's lawyers submitted...

Homeowners near New Orleans levee want their trees

New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 4 months ago

The corps says removing hundreds of trees from the city's levees would make them stronger...District Judge Carl Barbier. "That's what I look at every day...Federal lawyers argue that the government is immune from such lawsuits and warn that barring the...

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