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Jobless Claims Reach a 16-Year High

Posted by paulronan 1285 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: job market
New claims for unemployment benefits jumped last week to a 16-year high, the Labor Department said Thursday, providing more evidence of a rapidly wea[...] read more »
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Panasonic thinking green in Sanyo deal

Posted by paulronan 1285 days ago (http://www.iht.com)
Category: Green | Tags: green tech
Panasonic's plan to take over its rival Sanyo Electric would create one of the world's largest electronics makers. But Panasonic already has plenty[...] read more »
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Consumer Price Decline Prompts Fear of Deflation

Posted by paulronan 1285 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy
In another sign that the struggling economy continues to slow, consumer prices tumbled by a record amount in October, carried lower by skidding energ[...] read more »
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Technology and Environmental Leaders Unite to Call for National Strategy on Economy, Energy and Environment

Posted by paulronan 1287 days ago (http://www.marketwatch.com)
Category: Green | Tags: green tech
Technology and environmental leaders today announced a new initiative to develop a national strategy for information and communications technologies [...] read more »
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Lawmakers Told More Is Needed to Aid Economy

Posted by paulronan 1287 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Stocks
Top financial officials warned Congress on Tuesday that the economy continued to need urgent attention, with the credit markets remaining tight, mill[...] read more »
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Savings as Part of the Job

Posted by paulronan 1287 days ago, popular 1287 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: personal finance
With the economy in a downturn, corporate travel managers are using strategies from other frugal eras to save money — pushing advance purchases of ai[...] read more »
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Is new Bond movie antitech?

Posted by paulronan 1287 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Green | Tags: green tech
Among the many other problems with the latest James Bond film Quantum of Solace, I was particularly struck with its seemingly careless stance on (gre[...] read more »
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Business leaders urge government to increase green R&D tenfold

Posted by paulronan 1291 days ago (http://www.businessgreen.com)
Category: Commodities | Tags: green tech public spending
The government must increase its annual investment in low carbon technologies tenfold from £250m to £2.5bn if the UK is to meet its climate change ta[...] read more »
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Dodd Says Auto Bailout Lacks Votes in Senate

Posted by paulronan 1291 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: detroit economic meltdown
The chairman of the Senate banking committee said on Thursday that he did not believe there would be enough Republican support for efforts to aid flo[...] read more »
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Green tech: the key to Detroit's survival

Posted by paulronan 1292 days ago, popular 1292 days ago (http://media.www.mustangdaily.net)
Category: Green | Tags: detroit green
In the early 1900s, workers flocked to Detroit for the promise of 'the good life' that automobile manufacturing plants could offer. Today, one out [...] read more »
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Dow Down 411 on Investor Worries

Posted by paulronan 1292 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy
Shares on Wall Street tumbled more than 4 percent on Wednesday as frightened investors wondered how long the economic slowdown will last, how deep it[...] read more »
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UK to fall behind US on green tech?

Posted by paulronan 1294 days ago (http://www.itpro.co.uk)
Category: Green | Tags: green tech
US president-elect Barack Obama is planning to invest £150 billion to create “green collar jobs” focusing on technology, which could leave the UK tra[...] read more »
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A Town Drowns in Debt as Home Values Plunge

Posted by paulronan 1294 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: mortgage crisis
This town, 59 feet above sea level, is the most underwater community in America. read more »
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Credit crunch could dull appetite for green tech

Posted by paulronan 1294 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Green | Tags: green tech
The global credit crunch and easing oil prices may take some of the immediate wind out of the sails for investing in green energy, a major growth ini[...] read more »
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Fannie Mae Loses $29 Billion on Write-Downs

Posted by paulronan 1294 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: mortgage
Fannie Mae, the giant mortgage finance company, reported a big quarterly loss on Monday and indicated that it could be forced to seek government fina[...] read more »
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