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IBM Provides Small Businesses With $1 Billion in Financing
September 9th, 2011 | Source: E Week
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Are Veterans More Suicidal Than Ever?
September 7th, 2011 | Source: Slate.com
Comparing the psychiatric death tolls from Vietnam and today.
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Why Muslims are still mad at America
September 6th, 2011 | Source: World Public Opinion
On the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, many Americans are wondering whether the risk of a terrorist attack against America has been reduced. The picture is mixed. With the death of Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda is weaker.
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The Great Bank Robbery
September 3rd, 2011 | Source: Project Syndicate
NEW YORK – For the American economy – and for many other developed economies – the elephant in the room is the amount of money paid to bankers over the last five years. In the United States, the sum stands at an astounding $2.2 trillion for banks that have filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Extrapolating over the coming decade, the numbers would approach $5 trillion, an amount vastly larger than what both President Barack Obama’s administration and his Republican opponents seem willing to cut from further government deficits.
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Don't Build Keystone XL, the Pipeline to Nowhere
August 31st, 2011 | Source: Policy Innovations
WHAT IS CANADA THINKING?
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New Company Brings Produce From the Roof to the Supermarket Aisle
August 30th, 2011 | Source: GOOD.com
Growing produce on your roof is a productive way to take advantage of the space, but is it possible to make it commercially viable on a larger scale? A new company's business model may show the way. New York-based BrightFarms, which builds rooftop greenhouses, hopes to turn a profit while cutting shoppers' "food miles" down to zero by growing vegetables where people buy them: the supermarket.
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Starbucks’ Schultz Says 100 Leaders to Halt Campaign Giving
August 25th, 2011 | Source: Bloomberg
Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz said more than 100 business leaders have joined his pledge to boycott U.S. political campaign donations.
The sugar trade: Sweet and Rich
August 16th, 2011 | Source: The Economist
IT IS no exaggeration to say that the foundations of the modern globalised world were made of sugar. In the 15th century Europeans first encountered its sweet delights. Within a couple of hundred years the coming of sea power, and with it the means to create empires across the oceans, resulted in large tracts of land in South America and the Caribbean being seized. Much of it was used in the production of sugar, which was steadily evolving from being a scarce luxury to a daily necessity.
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S&P to face withering backlash, investigations likely?
August 9th, 2011 | Source: Fierce Finance
"Pardon me for asking, but who gave Standard & Poor's the authority to tell America how much debt it has to shed, and how?"
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