Month: August 2009
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Asian Automakers Win in Cash for Clunkers Competition
While American government officials hailed the monthlong program, which ended this week, as an overall stimulus to the economy, the biggest winner was Toyota, which accounted for 19 percent of all sales and had two of the top three best-selling models. via NYTimes.com.
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Goldman Sachs Tells Highest Paying Clients the Real Tips
The report said that the firm’s researchers hold weekly meetings, referred to as the “trading huddle,” at which analysts discuss their latest views of individual stocks, and that those views are passed on to the firm’s top clients and Goldman traders who run the firm’s own money. The paper, citing company documents, said few of […]
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Big Law Firms Start to Taste the Downturn
Since you’re obviously at a loss for words, allow us here at Big Debt to flesh-out your future: Welcome to reality, comrade. You’re barreling head-on into the Stalag 17 of temporary doc review hell! Welcome to $28 an hour straight time, along with cockroach infested basements and retina-burning hours of staring mindlessly into a computer […]
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2 Million in the UK Have Never Worked
She will accuse ministers of failing to tackle a “benefits culture” which has seen three million people fail to find a job since Tony Blair came to power in 1997, on top of another two million who have never worked. The figures, based on the 2001 census, come as unemployment levels reach their highest level […]
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Not the World’s Best Health Care
The analysts found no support for the claim routinely made by politicians that American health care is the best in the world and no hard evidence of any particular area in which American health care is truly exceptional. The American health care system puts patients at greater risk of harm from medical or surgical errors […]
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Dear Old People:
You’re our parents and grandparents and we love you. But if you throw a cranky fit and keep us from getting decent, affordable health care, you can figure out how to work your own goddamn PCs and cable boxes and remote controls from now on. via reddit.com.
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Fox Business Network's Paltry 21k Viewers
Fox Business averaged 21,000 viewers between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. in June, according to Nielsen Co. Fox Business is in 49 million homes, including the New York and Washington markets. via Media Matters for America
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Placebo Defect
Placebos are getting better because we’re increasingly treating made-up diseases. via Commenter on MetaFilter
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Scraping the Bottom of the Medicine Bottle
Perhaps the need for drug manufacturers to continually discover new drugs in order to keep stock prices up has left them scraping the bottom of the barrel, and these innovative new ways of exploiting brain chemistry via medication aren’t any better at it than the brain itself. via Commenter on MetaFilter