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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event, in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. �
This is the ...
by birches
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on Sat Jul 08, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event , in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information.��
This is the ...
by birches
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on Thu Jul 06, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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You can make a difference, in your town or your city, to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event! �Reuse this information! �This is the letter for week 13�of a weekly ...
by birches
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on Thu Jun 29, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Dan Pfeiffer on the Bryan Tyler Cohen show explains the real world to the magicians. Starts 16:27 and ends at 18:32 “At best case, the arguments about the 14th Amendment are a legal jump ball. Put aside the partisan experts, some of them believe it is...
by Dem
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on Mon May 29, 2023 at 08:27 AM PDT
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Somehow, right-wingers were able to turn news of a bank failure (or ...
by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Mar 17, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for Saturday, November 5th, 2022. We offer this space every weekend to give readers a variety of links to local and regional news of interest, and open the floor for...
by randallt
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on Sat Nov 05, 2022 at 08:07 AM PDT
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This post is for first-time and occasional voters. Please send a link to it to every first-time or reluctant voter you know. It lays out an easy six-step process for making the most of your vote. Vote for every office and measure on your ballot if you...
by dratler
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on Wed Oct 26, 2022 at 08:17 AM PDT
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In case you haven’t been following the Eurobond markets closely this year, there’s an interesting development: Ukrainian bonds are now outperforming Russian bonds. Despite being invaded by Russia and quickly downgraded by the ratings agencies, Ukraine...
by CorpFlunky
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on Thu Apr 07, 2022 at 10:51 AM PDT
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Michael Milken was the junk bond king. �He realized if you invest in a stock worth a penny, if the value goes up by a penny, you double your money. �These investments are now called "high yield," ...
by SolarKitty
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on Sat Aug 29, 2020 at 12:07 PM PDT
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A new report from Columbia University makes it clear that the coal industry isn’t just a threat to the climate, national health, and the safety of workers. It’s also a looming fiscal crisis that is both dooming local communities and set to topple the...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Jul 17, 2019 at 10:57 AM PDT
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There is a great story on Truthdig by Lee Camp covering the “misplacement” of $21 trillion by the Pentagon between 1998 and 2015. This happened to exceed the budget authorized by Congress by 50 times but, you know, stuff happens.
The Corporate...
by JohnRay
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on Wed May 16, 2018 at 05:30 PM PDT
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The market volatility that rocked Wall Street six weeks ago was back again today. Stock prices tumbled but didn't fall through the lows where they closed in February.
The Dow Industrials lost 724 points to close at 23,957.89 while 179 points were...
by Mark Lippman
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on Thu Mar 22, 2018 at 05:10 PM PDT
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Here’s what we learned from President George W Bush.
When the stock market goes up, Republicans -- like Trump and W -- take all the credit.
When the stock market goes down, the Democrats are to blame.
It is NEVER any other way.
Before W went into...
by 888guy
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on Sun Feb 04, 2018 at 11:40 AM PST
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Donald Trump has been beating his chest and Republicans have been beating the drum that he and they are personally and collectively responsible for the economy and the performance of stocks on Wall Street every time a mic is thrust in front of their...
by Limelite
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on Fri Feb 02, 2018 at 12:47 PM PST
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I will be very short and to the point. Doubtless other commenters in the hundreds of responses made the same point.
American debt is not callable. The Chinese cannot call our debt. The claim that they can, main page poster notwithstanding, is...
by phillies
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on Sun Dec 11, 2016 at 12:16 PM PST
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I think a Trump victory is quite unlikely. That said, the probability is not zero, it’s likely around 15-25%. At work, I routinely analyze even less likely events and their impact on markets, so I have considered the reaction of markets if Mr. Trump...
by subir
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on Fri Nov 04, 2016 at 08:58 AM PDT
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Such are the side-effects of globally inter-connected economies:
"China sneezes -- and the US Market catches a cold."
From The Guardian , this latest round of global market 'shockwaves', may ...
by jamess
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on Thu Sep 03, 2015 at 10:16 AM PDT
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The ongoing Kansas Budget battle has brought in numerous contenders to the fight - conservative Republicans who have avowed no taxes; conservatives who are dedicated to govern even if their are ...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Wed Jun 10, 2015 at 05:43 AM PDT
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What a great idea. SolarCity is offering bonds starting at $1000 each, giving regular folks a way to invest in solar energy.
From ThinkProgress ...
It’s a way for a company to build up capital ...
by cooper888
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on Fri Oct 17, 2014 at 01:18 PM PDT
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Today is the big climate march worldwide and I wanted to go but could not. So instead I thought there might be another way to make my contribution on the day as I take a train (and not a plane!) to ...
by Doolittle
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on Sun Sep 21, 2014 at 04:17 PM PDT
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