Slate’s Bilateral, 10-Point Resolution to End the Decades-Long Conflict Between Walkers and Bikers

slate.com 5 hours ago

Following in the footsteps of Amsterdam; Portland, Ore.; and Washington, D.C., among other cities, New York is set to launch its bike-share program, Citi Bike, on Memorial Day...

 
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IMF calls on Britain to do more for growth

news.yahoo.com 2 hours ago

LONDON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has called on Britain to do more to support the economic recovery, urging the government Wednesday to speed up investment in infrastructure and come up...

 
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Watch The IRS' Lois Lerner Plead The Fifth - Live Webcast

zerohedge.com 3 hours ago

As we noted yesterday , the IRS' head of exempt organizations who started the whole IRS targeting scandal, is testifying this morning and is expected to plead the Fifth...

 
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Traders Overreact to Bernanke's Testimony

cnbc.com 1 hour ago

Traders overreact to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments. Mr. Bernanke, in his Q and A, essentially reiterated what New York Fed President William Dudley said yesterday.

 
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Existing home sales highest in almost three-and-a-half years

reuters.com 3 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home resales rose in April to the highest level in nearly 3-1/2 years as surging prices lured sellers back into market, which should support the housing sector and the overall...

 
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Only In America: Anthony Weiner Announces NYC Mayor Candidacy On YouTube

zerohedge.com 5 hours ago

We would have been perfectly happy to report this as Humpday Humor, but unfortunately, and only in America, can a disgraced former Congressman, the very appropriately named Anothony Weiner, announce...

 
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Central Banking’s Split Personality Can’t Go On

zerohedge.com 2 hours ago

Central Banking’s Split Personality Can’t Go On Central bankers have spent the past five years expanding their balance sheets to unprecedented degrees...

 
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Bernanke expected to stay the course on Fed policy

news.yahoo.com 4 hours ago

By Jonathan Spicer NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is not expected to hint at a pending policy change when he testifies before the U.S...

 
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Swedish Youth Riots Enter Third Day

zerohedge.com 1 hour ago

Sparked by the police shooting of a machete-wielding 69 year-old man, traditionally calm-and-collected Sweden is suffering amid its third night of riots...

 
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Global Risk Appetite At 2006 Levels - Nears 'Euphoria'

zerohedge.com 4 hours ago

Global risk appetite surged to 4.53 (5 being 'euphoria'), its highest level since the euphoria event of 2006 , and up from 1.76 one month ago according to Credit Suisse...

 
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Tea party groups take anger to IRS offices across the nation

washingtontimes.com 7 hours ago

Crowds jammed onto the sidewalks in front of more than a dozen Internal Revenue Service offices nationwide Tuesday to protest the agency’s targeting of conservative organizations for extra scrutiny.

 
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Freakonomics » Don’t You Wish You Thought of This? Econ Professor Focuses on Beer

freakonomics.com 1 hour ago

From the (Saskatoon) Star-Phoenix : When Jason Childs and his colleagues went about devising a new course in economics at the University of Regina, they wanted to find a focus that didn't...

 
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Steve Jobs’ Dream Device Has Arrived, and It's Made by Microsoft

slate.com 18 hours ago

Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television...

 
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Forbes Most Powerful Women 2013: The rise of the female super geek

telegraph.co.uk 3 hours ago

As one in six women on the Forbes power list comes from tech, Louisa Peacock suggests you no longer have to be part of society's elite to be one of the most influential.

 
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Fed Winddown Strategy Will Test Economy’s Reaction and Adjust

blogs.wsj.com 1 hour ago

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made clear Wednesday in testimony to the Joint Economic Committee that the exit from the Fed’s $85 billion-a-month bond buying program will be much different than...

 
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After Ahmadinejad by Mehdi Khalaji

project-syndicate.org 4 hours ago

The disqualification of two leading candidates for Iran's presidency sends a strong message from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei...

 
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Stocks Open Higher Ahead of Bernanke

cnbc.com 3 hours ago

Stocks opened higher on Wednesday as markets await Congressional testimony from Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke on the economy and monetary policy at 10:00 a.m.

 
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Tax official at center of scandal won't testify: lawyer

reuters.com 16 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a scandal about the targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny, plans to assert her...

 
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Greek youth unemployment close to 75pc in some areas

telegraph.co.uk 3 hours ago

Greek youth unemployment is close to hitting 75pc in some parts of the country, official data showed on Wednesday, highlighting a huge disparity between Europe’s northern and southern states.

 
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Five Decades Of Asset Bubbles: Which One Is Next?

zerohedge.com 3 hours ago

Or maybe this is a trick question, and the answer for the "New Normal", when all central banks are coordinating on reflating the biggest asset bubble of all time, is "all of them".....

 
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Global Assured Destruction, Or How Bernanke Now Holds The Entire World Hostage

zerohedge.com 18 hours ago

The one headline we have been waiting for for over four years has just hit: BOK KIM SAYS WORLD MAY FACE RATE RISK IF U.S. EXITS FROM QE Not when, if ...

 
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Bernanke out by August, QE ends, rates up: Crash Paul B. Farrell

marketwatch.com 13 hours ago

Here’s why you better start preparing today for a stock-market crash dead ahead: The easy money is going to dry up soon.

 
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London property companies get West End boost

telegraph.co.uk 2 hours ago

Shaftesbury and Great Portland Estates see the value of their property portfolios rise over the last year and plans are announced to develop the Shell Centre near the London Eye.

 
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Government to set out RBS share sale plan in summer

telegraph.co.uk 2 hours ago

The Chancellor will fire the starting gun for the sale of the taxpayer’s £66bn investment in Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group this summer.

 
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Is Google About to Accomplish What Apple Couldn't? - AAPL, GOOG, NOK - Foolish Blogging Network

beta.fool.com 1 hour ago

Is Google About to Accomplish What Apple Couldn't?        

 
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Freakonomics » FREAK-est Links

freakonomics.com 4 hours ago

1. > Six female scientists who didn't get their due. 2. Why kids in France don't get ADHD . 3. When averages don't tell the story: the U.S...

 
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CEO performance doesn’t matter very much Al Lewis

marketwatch.com 4 hours ago

Corporations pay their CEOs too much because boards of directors have been fooled into thinking that CEO performance really matters. It doesn’t, a professor tells Al Lewis.

 
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Could a Hulu Acquisition Pop DIRECTV Stock? (DTV)

fool.com 1 hour ago

With DIRECTV possibly looking to acquire Hulu, there are some major benefits and concerns investors need to consider.

 
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Diablo 3: A Case Of Virtual Hyperinflation

zerohedge.com 14 hours ago

Submitted by Peter C. Earle via the Ludwig von Mises Institute , As virtual fantasy worlds go, Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 3 is particularly foreboding...

 
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What *really* keeps the Fed up at night

blogs.reuters.com 3 hours ago

�Fed�s Frankenstein"

 
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Labor Market Divides Fed Hawks, Doves

cnbc.com 4 hours ago

As the Fed mulls reducing asset purchases, the improved labor market is spurring debate between Fed "hawks" and "doves."

 
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Reinvigorating Egypt’s Economy by Mohamed A. El-Erian

project-syndicate.org 20 May

While blaming the revolution is not a persuasive explanation for Egypt’s current economic woes, its appeal to many Egyptians is understandable...

 
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Amartya Sen wrong in his claim that delay in Food Bill killing a thousand every week - The Economic...

economictimes.indiatimes.com 15 hours ago

I am mystified how Amartya Sen can attribute a precise number of child deaths to the absence of a policy that has not been in place for a single day.        

 
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One in five retiring in 2013 'will be below poverty line'

guardian.co.uk 11 hours ago

Study by Prudential finds many people are facing a bleak financial outlook, with 14% relying solely on state pension

 
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Map: Killer Tornadoes Since 1950

slate.com 21 hours ago

Currently, 24 people are confirmed dead after a tornado swept through Moore, Okla., on Monday, leaving devastation in its wake...

 
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