New York Times:
Occidental Petroleum Corp. said Thursday its second-quarter earnings fell 70 percent from a year ago as results were hit hard by lower oil and natural gas prices
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New York Times:
Cashew pilaf is a beautifully textured mix of nutty wild rice and long grain white rice, studded with sautéed carrots, onions and minced parsley and roasted salted cashews.
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Financial & Economic Blog:
With gas prices rising and car sales in the dumps, Hyundai is offering new car buyers gas at $1.49 a gallon for a year.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/2ylLH5ha2k0" height="1" width="1"/. (Read More)
New York Times:
High food prices have pushed another 105 million people into hunger in the first half of 2009, the leader of the United Nations World Food Program said on Friday.
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New York Times:
Retail sales increased 0.5 percent, the government says, as consumers spent more for gasoline, cars, groceries and clothing. (Read More)
Early Retirement Forums:
I'm sick of watching oil and gas prices returning to speculative levels again.
Just bought some UGA in an IRA today. That ought to stop it. (Read More)
New York Times:
Rising prices at the pump pushed sales higher in May, the government said, but consumers also spent more on cars, groceries and clothing.
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New York Times:
You might not need a bamboo tub to hold 25 pounds of sushi rice, but there is plenty for the home kitchen at the Japanese Culinary Center, a retail and wholesale showroom for a major importer. They have elegant knives, porcelain dishes that start at $1.50 and simple slicers for around $35. There’s hand-crafted plastic sushi (Read More)
New York Times:
The national jump in prices is far larger than the normal seasonal increase and threatens to curtail a modest recovery in consumer spending on items like apparel and electronics.
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New York Times:
Cows at farms across Vermont are having their grain feed adjusted to help them belch less methane, a potent heat-trapping gas that has been linked to climate change.
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New York Times:
The first globalized natural gas glut in history is driving an even more drastic collapse in the cost of gas that cooks food, heats homes and runs factories in the U.S. and many other countries.
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cougarmark:
Seth’s post today is dead on……we are the consumers - we don’t have to take all the crap that many companies are dishing out to us.
I’ll add one more thing - if you are tired of paying the crazy amounts we are paying for a gallon of gas - drive the price lower - simply do some [...]. (Read More)