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As they say, even paranoids have real enemies. In the last couple of weeks there has been a renewed effort to push the parallel bills Conrad-Gregg and Cooper-Wolf each of which would establish a Bi-Partisan Commission to tack (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
"With weakness in the dollar, record high in gold, the rising inflation expectations in TIPS, policy being extremely easy, the Fed should be worried about inflation." So says Peter Boockvar, commenting on the fact that only (Read More)
Engadget:
Qualcomm's Mirasol displays have already found their way into quite a few products, but the company looks to really be branching out into some new territory with its latest prototype: an e-book reader with a full-color, 5.7-i (Read More)
Submitted by stuartginbey
from blog:
The market opened slightly lower this morning, based on a couple of economic reports. The CPI (this is prices to consumers, whereas the PPI yesterday was at the wholesale level) rose a bit more than expected at .3% when .2% (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
Treasuries crept higher after an early morning sell-off but the pace was much more subdued that has been in the previous few sessions. The inability of the bears to hold bonds and notes underwater seems to favor continued, y (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- The Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday that taking the blood-thinner Plavix with such antacids as Prilosec can reduce Plavix's effectiveness by as much as half. Plavix, the world's second best (Read More)
Submitted by stuartginbey
from blog:
The news of the morning was the release of the Producer Price Index (PPI), which details pricing at the wholesale level. The PPI showed an increase of .3%, which was less than the .5% expected, following a decrease in the PP (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. wholesale prices rise a seasonally adjusted 0.3% on higher food and energy costs, the Labor Department reports.
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Submitted by jgmize
from Google Reader:
Made at 180°C (a record low, not long ago)As I noted in a recent post on self-assembled nanoelectronics (“Carbon Nanotube Transistors through DNA Origami”), carbon nanotubes (CNTs) hold promise for self-assembled nanomechani (Read More)
Smashing Magazine:
The iPhone will always be part of a much bigger picture. How well you address human and environmental factors will greatly determine the success of your product. All too often, iPhone developers create products in isolat (Read More)
Submitted by esjay
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The same universal powers that conduct the laws of electricity and impose the laws of gravity also govern the rules of interwebzity. One of those rules is that you must like xkcd – a short stick figure comic that has becom (Read More)
CSS-Tricks:
I used to work in Pre-Press for a long time. Longer even now than I’ve been working on the web. I was in and out of InDesign documents all day every day. I’m not an uber-pro, but I know my way around pretty well. Recently I’v (Read More)
Call Center:
Title : PPI Sales RequirementId : 67090213Estimated Budget : 30 GBP per saleDescription : We are India based company looking for qualified service providers with good centers for our PPI sales requirement. We want the cente (Read More)
The Guardian:
Small investors will probably be right to view participation in the bank's cash call as throwing good money after badIf you're one of Lloyds/Halifax's three million shareholders, you probably received a weighty rights issue d (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
U.K. input producer prices rose unexpectedly in October, suggesting that inflationary pressures could be building after remaining muted over the past year. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The price of goods leaving British factories rose 1.7% in October compared to the same month last year, accelerating from a 0.4% rise in September, the Office for National Statistics reported Friday. O (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- September producer prices in the 16-nation euro zone were down 7.7% from the same month last year, the statistics agency Eurostat reported Wednesday. Compared to August, prices fell 0.4%. Both figures (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Taiwan’s AU Optronics have showcased their latest 14-inch OLED panel at this year’s FPD International show in Japan. Unlike most 14-inch OLED panels, this particular panel provides 1920 x 1080 FULL HD resolution and is capabl (Read More)