Are ‘too big to fail’ powers too big?
As the U.S. Congress starts debating how to deal with financial firms deemed “too big too fail,” some lawmakers and advocates are worried about giving the executive branch expansive new powers over the financial sector.
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Wall Street takes a big slide
Stocks tumbled Friday, more than erasing the previous session’s gains, as investors dumped a variety of shares at the end of a rough week and choppy month on Wall Street.
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‘Lords of Finance’ wins top prize
A book about the 1929 Great Depression was Thursday named the business book of the year.
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Ron Paul: Let the dollar prove itself
A growing number of Americans are becoming aware of the Federal Reserve System, what it is, how it has precipitated our financial crisis, and how it continues to pursue policies that delay economic recovery and weaken the dollar.
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Haunted houses scare up business
Unused storefronts in suburban malls in Colorado are being converted into haunted houses by a new breed of “hauntrepreneurs.”
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Ghost houses thrive in scary economy
Despite the tough economy, the haunted house business is good.
Operations at the two reactors at Chubu’s Hamaoka plant inShizuoka prefecture — the 1,137 megawatt No.4 and the 1,267 MWNo.5 units — shut down automatically after the magnitude 6.5quake on Aug 11. As a result, overallgross profit margin improved to 29.3% for the three [...]
Internet goes Arabic and Chinese
The group that controls top-level domain codes for Internet addresses is poised to permit non-Latin language codes for the first time in its history.
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Buenos Aires beset by strikes
Argentina’s capital city was beset by strikes Thursday, with teachers, doctors and transit employees refusing to work over money matters.
The soldier-turned leader, who received military training in Germany and wears a German paratrooper badge on his trademark red beret, has denied responsibility for the bloodshed and said he is being pressured by the Guinean [...]
Japan’s jobless rate declines
Japan’s unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent in September, the government reported on Friday.
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China, U.S. move to defuse trade row
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