Government Considers Remutualizing Northern Rock
"A proposal to turn Northern Rock back into a mutual has been considered by the government which is looking for ways to extricate the taxpayer from supporting the former building society after it was...
View ArticleSuperfreaknomics Prositutiion Fail
"The men behind Freakonomics offer a stunningly shallow and flawed view of sex work as a career option for women " the Guardian says of Freakonomics authors Steven Levitt's and Stephen Dubner's new...
View ArticleKindle Users Revolt Against Delays to Ebook Editions
"Angry Kindle fans have sabotaged the Amazon rating of a bestselling new book Game Change an exposé of the 2008 US presidential elections to punish its publisher for delaying the digital edition of the...
View ArticleFacebook Loses Friends as Privacy Campaign Grows
"Type 'How do I ...' into the search engine and one of the first suggestions it comes up with continues: '... delete my Facebook account?'" "Criticism [of Facebook] been mounting since a revamp of the...
View ArticleReport condemns swine flu experts' ties to big pharma
"Scientists who drew up the key World Health Organisation guidelines advising governments to stockpile drugs in the event of a flu pandemic had previously been paid by drug companies which stood to...
View ArticleGuardian UK Doesn't Understand the iPod
Once again we find ourselves on the eve of another potential unveiling of a new Apple product -- or at the very least an incremental upgrade to an existing one. With his routine seasonal timing and...
View ArticleGene Simmons Becomes Latest Online Vigilante Target
At this point it's pretty apparent that Gene Simmons has no shame. With his incessant realty show appearances and outrageous Kiss merchandising -- Kiss Kasket anyone? -- Simmons shatters the limits of...
View ArticleDespite Warnings, Cell Phones Still Killing Us
A few weeks ago the medical journal Injury Prevention released a study saying that headphone related injuries had tripled over a six-year period between 2004 and 2011. For a short while the report...
View ArticleApple Not to Blame for Despicable Price Hike of Whitney Houston Album
Last year Microsoft (MSFT) came under fire for turning singer Amy Winehouse's death into a money-making opportunity. Only a few months after Bing used the devastating earthquake in Japan as Twitter ad...
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1929, 1987, and 2013: Three of a Kind?
Editor's Note: The following is a free edition of Jeff Cooper's Daily Market Report. For a two-week FREE trial of his daily commentary and nightly day and swing trading picks click here. And as I sat...
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Mother of All Fed Cha-Cha Days or Last Tango on Wall Street?
Editor's Note: The following is a free edition of Jeff Cooper's Daily Market Report. For a two-week FREE trial of his daily commentary and nightly day and swing trading picks click here. So far we are...
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The Biggest Bubble of Them All
Get Jeff's commentary plus day & swing trading ideas each day with a FREE 14 day trial to Jeff Cooper's Daily Market Report. Bearish market participants have been screaming that the bond market is...
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Goldilocks Gets Botox
Editor's Note: The following is a free edition of Jeff Cooper's Daily Market Report. For a two-week FREE trial of his daily commentary and nightly day and swing trading picks click here. In a strange...
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The Danger of Rising Rates
The following alert was sent to subscribers of Peter's Fixed Income Report yesterday. Rising Rates are Bad The market has been begging for some great rotation out of bonds and into stocks. They may be...
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Fast & Furious
I think you move me. - Wild Thing (The Troggs) On Tuesday they ran stocks back up after a large downside gap. Ditto the overnight session when they moved the futes back up again leading to Wednesday’s...
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Bearish on Gamestop
The following trade alert was sent to subscribers of Steve's Optionsmith newsletter on Friday. I’m taking another stab at a bearish position in Gamestop (NYSE:GME) the video game retailer. This stock...
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FREE Fireside Chat with David Stockman, Today at 4:30 p.m. EDT!
Today at 4:30 p.m. EDT Todd Harrison will interview New York Times bestselling author David A. Stockman about his book The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America. You are invited to...
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Peter Tchir Discusses the FOMC Statement, LIVE Today at 3:30 p.m. ETD!
Today live at 3:30 p.m. EDT Minyanville will be hosting a FREE 15-minute webcast/conference call with Peter Tchir of Tchir's Fixed Income Report to discuss the highlights of the FOMC statement the...
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Todd Harrison Talks Gold
Follow Todd and over 30 professional traders as they share their ideas in real-time with a FREE 14 day trial to Buzz & Banter. This post is a sample of the Buzz & Banter Minyan Mailbag where...
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Has the Bear Come Out of Hibernation?
The market shouldn’t have been surprised by what Bernanke said on Wednesday. But it was. Bernanke had already flagged the reduction in the Fed’s bond buying program on May 22 and there was an...
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