Archive for April, 2009
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
msnbc: Everybody makes mistakes. But not every mistake is forgiven. In our capitalist society, mistakes with money are carefully logged, categorized and entered into a formula that controls your financial future -- your credit score.
But what happens when the companies that keep this list make mistakes? After all, the credit ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Fabulously40.com: As a time management consultant, I’m often asked what are the top mistakes I see people make. Here are, in no particular order, the first five of my top ten:
1. Being a slave to your blackberry or cell phone : You know you have become a slave to your ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) - Investors are setting aside some of their worries about the economy as a closely watched measure of consumer confidence soars in April.
Stocks had been lower on worries about fallout from the swine flu and banks that may need to raise capital following government "stress tests."
But a ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
The Independent: It has not taken long for the global financial crisis to affect the world's oldest profession in Germany.
In one of the few countries where prostitution is legal, the industry has responded with an economic stimulus package of its own: modern marketing tools, rebates, discounts and gimmicks to boost ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
LAtimes.com: There was more bleak housing news as U.S. home prices continued to fall in February, according to a widely-followed index released today.
Spotting good news these days requires viewing the market not as a glass three-quarters-empty but as a vessel one-quarter-full. Thus the producers of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
An attempted hijacking of an Italian cruise ship carrying 1,500 passengers by Somali pirates was thwarted on Sunday by the vessel's security guards. Nobody was injured. The incident occurred about 290 kilometres north of Victoria, the Seychelles.
According to the captain of the ship, Ciro Pinto, six pirates in a speedboat ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
ZenHabits.net: Post written by Leo Babauta
Today I received an email from the lawyers of author Susan Jeffers, PhD., notifying me that I’d infringed on her trademark by inadvertently using the phrase “feel the fear and do it anyway” in my post last week, A Guide to Beating the Fears That ...
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