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Franklin Delano Obama

Barrack Obama has offered "New Deal" solutions for an entirely different era compared to the Great Depression. Public Works projects on bridges, interstates, and dilapidated urban schools won't cut it. Neither will propping Detroit in a global environment where the Big Three aren't competitive. We need targeted incentives toward IT, selected 'green' growth industries and even energy drink makers - if it'll create sustainable, decent jos.

14 comments    barrack obama fdr bailouts
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Understanding the Financial Market's Meltdown

After viewing this hub you will be able to understand the root cause of our financial meltdown and where we are today. It includes two animated videos to help understand the complexity of the crisis.

10 comments    freddie mac tarp derivatives
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"Inside Job," A Movie Everyone Should See

Inside Job, a "Must-see Movie The documentary takes viewers step by step through the developments, beginning with deregulation debacle in the savings and loan industry under Reagan and continuing through subsequent administrations including, importantly, the repeal under Bill Clinton of the Glass-Steagall Act which had required the separation of banking and riskier securities trading activities since 1933.

32 comments    wall street bill clinton aig
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Review of Jillian Michaels' 6 Week Six-Pack DVD

Want ripped abs? Jillian Michaels' latest fitness DVD, 6 Week Six-Pack, is a workout program for getting a flat, chiseled midsection in 6 weeks. Using the same, no-nonsense, tough-love motivational style that she brings to the hit TV show The Biggest Loser, she'll have you ripped up in no time!

3 comments    fitness exercise lose weight
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Japan 2011: The tsunami that caused a nuclear meltdown

The tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 caused widespread devastation, but also threatened one of the worst nuclear meltdowns that the world has seen in decades. Six months on, the country is still struggling to contain radiation levels at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant and the government have warned that the region will be uninhabitable for another 20 years.

4 comments    nuclear leaks fukushima disaster
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The Causes Of The 2008 Financial Meltdown And The Reforms Enacted - Are They Enough?

The 2008 financial meltdown was the worst economic crisis for the United States since the stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression. The root of the problem resided in the collapse of the housing market. There were several other...

32 comments    risk management freddie mac aig
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Preventable Nuclear Accidents: Could Fukushima & Chernobyl Have Been Prevented?

Could Chernobyl & Fukushima have been prevented? An analysis on two nuclear disasters that have shaped our world.

0 comments    life health politics
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Margin Call Review, and Life Imitates Art at MF Global

Margin Call imitates life in the last hours of Lehman Brothers and "life" imitates art in the last days of Jon Corzine's MF Global.

37 comments    money finance investing
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It's The Economy Stupid - Well Said Clinton

Seems I remember watching a video of one of Obama's snarky stunts where he told the Republicans to pipe down while a true Mopper-in-Chief grasped the mop and showed the nation how to mop up the mess the last administration had left him. So I knew...

31 comments    government spending us economy
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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: A Conspiracy?

Days before the Sendai Earthquake struck the Land of the Rising Sun, the world was a witness to a number of rising unrest of people in nations ruled by dictators supported by leaders of countries allied to them.  There were protests, political...

6 comments    ideas japan earthquake
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