| November 1 |
- Potheads on Wall Street
- Bear-Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne is accused of enjoying a joint, now and again. Bully for him!
- A tale of two car companies
- Chrysler's new parent starts hacking away, while India's Mahindra thinks big (or at least Appalachian).
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| November 2 |
- When the rivers run dry
- Forget about the mussels and sturgeon. Atlanta's water woes have politicians dreaming of an Endangered Suburbs Act
- Subtracting the "IBM" from the ThinkPad
- Lenovo wants its brand to stand alone. But one Boeing jet is still worth a million pairs of Chinese sneakers. So who is beating whom?
- The Borgesian open-access library
- Coming soon, freely accessible peer-reviewed journals that cover, well, just about anything
- Should Bush open up the oil spigot?
- Democrats say the president should send a message to energy speculators by releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But are high oil prices really so bad?
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| November 5 |
- Who's winning the broadband sweepstakes?
- Who pays the least for the fastest downloads? Who does the most with the least GDP? What country's computers harbor the most bot infestations?
- Moody's to Pakistan: Your credit is "under review"
- Ratings downgrades led to the ouster of Citigroup's Charles Prince. Could something similar happen to Pervez Musharraf?
- Here comes the Suntech
- A Chinese solar power company says it may offshore production ... to the United States.
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| November 6 |
- Ron Paul's Internet cha-ching
- Money beats spam bots, any day. So how did it come to pass that the Net fell in love with a libertarian from Texas?
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| November 7 |
- The circuit board bakers of Guiyu
- A documentary filmmaker visits the town in southern China where computers go to die
- The politics of home price depreciation
- Another foreclosure, another new Democrat? Housing bust math is no fun for Republicans
- Conservative authors: "Help, we're being oppressed!"
- Ann Coulter's first publisher is sued for exploiting right-wing propagandists. No, we're not making this up.
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| November 8 |
- Save the forests! Stuff chopsticks in your bra
- The "My Chopsticks Bra" aims to cure Japan of its addiction to disposable utensils
- Translating Ben Bernanke
- The Fed Chair says economic growth in the U.S. is likely to "slow noticeably." But what does that mean?
- Only Harry Potter can save Pakistan!
- Karachi school kids think You-Know-Who and the Death Eaters have seized control. But where's Dumbledore?
- Where have all the line technicians gone?
- Why don't Americans want to climb up the utility pole? Are they afraid of getting electrocuted or is it just not worth the bother?
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| November 9 |
- Worst. President. Ever.
- How bad has George Bush been for the American economy? Joseph Stiglitz counts the ways
- Solar power for the people
- While Washington politicians bicker about the blame for record oil prices, the People's Republic of Berkeley takes care of business.
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| November 12 |
- SpongeBob and the proper role of the State
- Cheaper labor isn't the only reason South Korea is a cartoon powerhouse.
- A Buddhist approach to climate change
- The endless knot tells us everything is mutually interdependent. Including, but not limited to, free software, Bhutan and the World Bank.
- An inconvenient truth about venture capital
- Al Gore aims to save the world as a partner at Kleiner-Perkins. But Manhattan Energy Projects don't grow on Silicon Valley trees
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| November 13 |
- No logo for the U.S. in Pakistan
- Made in the U.S.A. labels aren't working like they're supposed to near the border of Afghanistan
- Free to be, the Wall Street Journal
- It's time to tear down the paid-content wall, says Rupert Murdoch. Score another victory for the all-conquering Internet.
- CSI: Wall Street
- Realtors gather in Las Vegas, hoping to solve a crime. Who killed the mortgage industry?
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| November 14 |
- The six-pack abs of Shah Rukh Khan
- "Om Shanti Om" is Bollywood's latest stab at global box office glory. Take a seat, Tom Cruise.
- Here comes the Earth
- A 2007 Space Odyssey, minus special effects or CGI
- Tips on how better to exploit the working poor
- Need help maximizing your usury? The Predatory Loan Association is on the job
- John "One Australia" Howard has a problem
- As Tonto said to the Lone Ranger, "What do you mean 'we,' white man?"
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| November 15 |
- Cyclone Sidr: A hurricane by any other name
- A familiar nightmare crashes into Bangladesh. The usual suspect makes an appearance
- Life, liberty and the right to play online poker
- Morality, international law and the odds of drawing an inside straight -- Congress revisits the ever-popular topic of Internet gambling.
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| November 16 |
- Purchasing power disparity
- The World Bank waves its magic wand, and presto -- 200 million poverty-stricken Chinese appear out of nowhere
- More fun with payday loans
- The Predatory Loan Association has some advice for "responsible" lenders: Tiny fonts are the key to successful consumer empowerment.
- We are all subprime
- Information about CDOs wants to be free. A hedge fund manager explains why.
- No tiny fonts allowed!
- The payday loan industry strikes back against the foul propaganda perpetrated by the Predatory Loan Association
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| November 19 |
- The bright side of consumer paralysis
- American manufacturing jobs won't get hit if Americans stop pulling out their credit cards, because those jobs are already gone
- The richest immigrants in Silicon Valley
- Why are Indians flourishing in Santa Clara County? Could it be because extraordinary diversity is like mother's milk?
- Chinese pirates can't touch the Brits and the French
- Who is stealing the most American movies? Hint: Don't go looking in the Far East for the most rapacious plunderers.
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| November 20 |
- Laughing along with Fox Business News
- Who bought an 8 percent stake in a Silicon Valley chipmaker on Friday? Was it Apple? Or the previously unknown emirate Abu Dubai?
- Law, torture and Harry Potter
- This is not a joke: A flawed legal regime afflicts the Potter-verse.
- From China to the housing bust: Connecting the dollar dots
- The greenback continues to slide. Oil hits a new high. Maybe it's time to finally start saving a rainy day?
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| November 21 |
- A new player in Afghanistan's Great Game
- A Chinese mining company wins the rights to develop what could be the world's biggest copper mine
- When is a military dictator a freedom fighter?
- When war is peace and ignorance is strength. A selection from "The Collected Works of George Bush."
- One woman, one daughter
- The magic words are "a net reproduction rate below one point zero." What do they mean? That a decline in global population numbers is within sight
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| November 26 |
- The earth thanks Kevin Rudd
- Australia's new prime minister promises to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Better late than never!
- The Citigroup who stole Christmas
- While layoff rumors mount, subprime borrowers beg for a break and Norwegian mayors cry foul.
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| November 27 |
- King of the housing speculators
- Home prices are falling at record rates everywhere, but a new report says one city will be hurt the most. So what makes Myrtle Beach, S.C., so special?
- Ode to a giant saltstick
- A beloved bakery changes hands, and the Hungarian heart of New York takes a body blow. Will those nomad barbarians ever learn?
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| November 28 |
- A short tale of jade and semiconductors
- Taiwan's trading prowess is no recent accomplishment. Neolithic seafarers spread the island's baubles far and wide.
- Hong Kong's Kitty Hawk pissy-fit
- A U.S. admiral spanks China for playing games with the Navy over Thanksgiving. But who will apologize to the Wanchai bar girls?
- A "scary graph" terrorizes the econoblogosphere
- What happened to the foreign appetite for U.S. assets? Do the words "Wile E. Coyote moment" mean anything to you?
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| November 29 |
- Bush declares victory on climate change
- U.S. greenhouse gas emissions dropped in 2006, says the Department of Energy. So what's the big worry?
- A lesson in how to handle subprime fallout
- Norwegian regulators determine a broker acted in bad faith marketing Citigroup CDOs, and the guillotine blade drops.
- Karl Marx: Blogger or prophet?
- 1848 was a very good year for intemperate discourse. And if workers keep getting the shaft, there may be more to come.
- Lenders need not fear, the OCC is here
- A banking regulator explains her views on consumer protection. Or should that be "lender protection"?
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| November 30 |
- Google's "strange" quest for cheap renewable power
- Are the class action shareholder lawsuits already brewing? How does clean-tech activism fit into a search engine company's mandate?
- Once more unto the subprime satire breach
- Think of Britain's John Bird and John Fortune as an older, posher Stewart and Colbert. And then start laughing.
- How much is that earthquake in the window?
- Catastrophe bonds are growing more popular on Wall Street. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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