Description:Â Commentary: Starving the government is not patriotic
Source:Â Moneywatch.com
Date: 08/12/2011
Link:Â http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ceos-and-tea-partiers-shut-up-and-pay-taxes-2011-08-12
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Description:Â Â John Chambers, head of Sovereign Ratings for Standard & Poor?s, explains why the ratings agency downgraded the U.S. credit rating.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 08/06/2011
Link:Â http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2011/08/06/n_us_credit_downgrade.cnnmoney/
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Description:Â Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report, talks about global financial markets. Faber also discusses Federal Reserve monetary policy. He speaks from Zurich with Susan Li and John Dawson on Bloomberg Television’s “On the Move Asia.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Source: Bloomberg.com – video report
Date: 08/05/2011
Link: http://bloom.bg/mUFPqB#ooid=5jb25wMjoIxPYlFTLNz_Fjul3sHHs0ng
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Description: So many people are following the 200-day moving average, to help differentiate between bull and bear markets, that the indicator may have lost the effect it’s had for decades, according to MarketWatch columnist Mark Hulbert. Laura Mandaro reports. Image courtesy of Getty Images.
Source: Marketwatch.com – video report
Date: 08/02/2011
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Description: BRADLEY ALFORD, a money manager in Atlanta, just hit the panic button.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: 08/06/2011
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Description: LinkedIn Corp. has suffered an unusual loss of support from the securities firms that led the professional-networking website’s initial public offering less than three months ago.
Source:Â Bloomberg.com
Date: 08/05/2011
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Description:Â Â Dunkin’ Donuts has a successful IPO and Amazon simply continues to impress despite economic wariness.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 07/27/2011
Link:Â http://money.cnn.com/video/markets/2011/07/27/mkts_bh_amazon_dunkin.cnnmoney/
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Description: The oil giant’s earnings increased 41% to $10.7 billion but missed forecasts.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 07/28/2011
Link:Â http://money.cnn.com/video/markets/2011/07/28/mkts_am_exxon.cnnmoney/
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Description: After default, emergency restructuring was needed to satisfy lenders.
Source:Â Fortune.com
Date: 07/28/2011
Link:Â http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/28/the-forbes-familys-big-deal-causes-big-trouble/
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Description: If Washington is deadlocked now, how will it deal with the much bigger debt problems that lurk in the decades to come?
Source: Businessweek.com
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Date: 07/27/2011
Link:Â Â http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/why-the-debt-crisis-is-even-worse-than-you-think-07272011.html
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