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The Crack Up Boom, Part XIII (GoldSeek.com) As the G7 economies plunge over a cliff, the governments and central banks are taking turns at fire fighting in their respective economies. us.rd.yahoo.com
How to Tell a Recession From a Depression (Fox News) How to Tell a Recession From a Depression us.rd.yahoo.com
The Lost Politburo Transcripts: From Collective Rule to Stalin's Dictatorship, edited by Hoover fellows Paul R. ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) STANFORD, Calif.----In the groundbreaking book Lost Politburo Transcripts: From Collective Rule to Stalin's Dictatorship , prominent Western and Russian scholars examine the “lost” transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920s to 1938 but remained hidden in secret archives until the late 1990s. us.rd.yahoo.com
Lake City native keys on income, education (The Post and Courier) LAKE CITY — Everyone in Lake City remembers where they were and what they were doing when the space shuttle Challenger exploded Jan. 28, 1986. us.rd.yahoo.com
Publishers bet big on Obama (The Politico) Since Election Day alone, more than a half-dozen book deals have been signed to exploit Obamania. us.rd.yahoo.com
Nigeria: Aliyu's Bridge Between Town And Gown (AllAfrica.com) As Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, Governor of Niger State, brought his insightful lecture, entitled: "Bridging the Gap between the Town and Gown for Socio-economic and Political Development in Nigeria", to a close on Thursday, October 30, 2008, the Trenchard hall of the University of Ibadan erupted into frenzied ovation. us.rd.yahoo.com
Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz) Sen. Barack Obama ran an amazing, historic campaign. So amazing, in fact, that initial attempts to calmly analyze his victory have generally fallen short. Some media and academic experts talk as if Barack Obama came out of nowhere. us.rd.yahoo.com
Opportunities (Bluffton Today) TheTechnical College of the Lowcountry offers a multitude of scholarship andfinancial aid options to help make the dreamofcollege reality. TheTCL Foundation is accepting scholarship applications throughDec.5 for spring classes.During the academic year,the foundation will award more than $60,000 to deservingTCL students. us.rd.yahoo.com
The Bailout Reader (Ludwig von Mises Institute) These are times when you just feel like yelling at the people who write the news, particular the business press. They are happy to report, word for word, what the Fed and Treasury Department, and their message is always the same: hey, it's not our fault; in fact, we are fixing the problem! us.rd.yahoo.com
Book Of The Week: Outliers, By Malcolm Gladwell (Independent) In 1904, a German professor of economics went back to work after a long bout of depression. He began to publish a series of essays about the links between a community, its core beliefs, and material success. Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism not only unleashed a century of debate and dispute. It more or less created the sociology of culture as a study of the ... us.rd.yahoo.com
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