"The largest thin film solar photovoltaic (PV) project in the United States, recently began commercial operations in California.
"Anthem Blue Cross customers got a shock this week when the health insurer informed thousands of individual policyholders that their premium rates will jump as much as 39 percent on March 1.
Our overreliance on downsizing is killing workers, the economy—and even the bottom line.
Great reporting on behind the scenes intrigue and numerous smoking guns indicating that some who have reaped huge profits from the economic collapse actually helped cause it, perhaps intentionally.
"Africa is a pretty much untapped source of renewable energy, but the world seems to be finally coming round to the continents potential - particularly solar power.
Consider: An older man is dating a young, very attractive women half his age. Or that young attractive woman is with a homely guy with a fat bank account. Who is more deserving of our disdain?
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"The ISSCC example underscores an important point. Namely, technology centers don't occur or stay where they're supposed to. In the 1980s and early '90s, Israel, Taiwan and South Korea all became technology powerhouses.
"Last year, two Detroit tavern owners were sitting at the bar, sampling their beverages and bemoaning the local economy -- no one in the city had cash, and when they did, they spent it in the suburbs. Then the pair hit on a solution: Print their own money. "
Jon Stewart tells it like it is. (Comedy..sort of)
Henry Paulson, the former U.S. Treasury Department secretary, just said in a CNBC interview that in the midst of the Lehman Brothers collapse he had no idea what to do and was so afraid he excused himself from an emergency meeting on the matter and called his wife.
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