Date: Sat, 3. January 2009 02:00:52

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Date: Thu, 29. May 2008 14:29:14

AP - The economy plodded ahead at a 0.9 percent pace in the first quarter — slightly better than first estimated — but still underscoring caution on the part of consumers and businesses walloped by housing, credit and financial problems.

Date: Mon, 29. September 2008 03:05:08

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that as political support for Australia's version of the national ID card is waning, the powers that be have found a far more effective way to catalog the populace. CrimTrac, an Australian government agency responsible for designing technical solutions to aid policing, is due to hand in a $2.2 million scoping study for the introduction of a nationwide automatic number plate recognition system (ANPR). It seems that as well as ANPR, the system will also collect images of drivers and passengers with high enough resolution for identification purposes. All ANPR data collected would be made available to participating agencies in real time, and retained for five years for future investigations."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Thu, 10. July 2008 20:34:50

It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. The Environmental Protection Agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.

Date: Thu, 26. June 2008 12:20:47

The Nation - The Nation -- At $34 billion, you're already counting pretty high. After all, that's Harvard's endowment; it's the amount of damage the triple hurricanes -- Charley, Ivan, and Jeanne -- inflicted in 2004; it's what car crashes involving 15-to-17-year-old teenage drivers mean yearly in "medical expenses, lost work, property damage, quality of life loss and other related costs"; it's the loans the nation's largest, crippled, home lender, Countrywide Financial, holds for home-equity lines of credit and second liens; it's Citigroup's recent write-off, mainly for subprime exposure; it's what New Jersey's tourism industry is worth -- and, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, it's the minimal figure for the Pentagon's "black budget" for fiscal year 2009 -- money for, among other things, "classified weapons purchases and development," money for which the Pentagon will remain unaccountable because almost no Americans will have any way of knowing what it's being spent for.

Date: Fri, 19. September 2008 13:28:47

Reuters - U.S. officials rushed to shore up ailing money markets on Friday after signs that this long-safe corner of financial markets, home to some $3.5 trillion of deposits, was at risk of falling victim to the year-old credit crunch and bring the crisis to Main Street.

Date: Wed, 23. July 2008 14:47:56

Reuters - Stocks rose on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq up more than 1 percent, as the price of oil fell further after the U.S. inventory report.

Date: Fri, 10. October 2008 23:48:59

AP - Wall Street capped one of its worst weeks ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials gyrate within a 1,000 point range before closing with a relatively mild loss and the Nasdaq composite index actually ending with a modest advance.

Date: Sat, 13. December 2008 01:18:19

AP - As of Friday, Dec. 12, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Date: Mon, 6. October 2008 14:18:40

DRAM storage chips suppliers Samsung, Elpida Memory and Powerchip Semiconductor face tougher challenges in servicing debts and financing capital expenditure as banks become more cash-strapped under the Wall Street Financial Crisis and global credit crunch, according to iSuppli. iSuppli cut its near-term market rating on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) storage chips used mainly in personal computers, to negative from neutral. iSuppli cited severe oversupply, weak demand, unexpectedly sharp price declines of DRAM storage chips and the approach of seasonally slow period of the DRAM storage chips market. DRAM storage chip maker Samsung Electronics is the only chip maker not suffering losses. Japan's Elpida Memory and Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor had said last month they planned to cut DRAM storage chip output to fight oversupply and falling prices. - SEOUL (Reuters) - DRAM suppliers face tougher challenges in servicing debts and financing capital expenditure as banks become more cash-strapped under the global credit crunch, research firm iSuppli said. quot;Even with the expected intervention by the U.S. government, this crisis means the ...