“Hedge funds - secretive funds that can bet on rising or falling prices in a wide range of markets”
—Greek debt deal turns hedge fund trade to gold
November 2012
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March 2012
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“In Britain, ‘muppet’ is used as a derogatory term to describe someone who is regarded as being ignorant.”
—Departing Goldman banker slams “rip-off” culture
November 2011
6 posts
“The Friday after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, known as “Black Friday,” now marks the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, the most critical time of the year for the nation’s $4 trillion retail sector.”
—Spirited “Black Friday” has dark roots
“Video-gaming has become hugely popular in recent years, particularly among teenagers.”
—Keen video-gamers’ brains may reward them more
“The ‘Occupy’ protesters, active in a number of cities in recent weeks, criticize economic inequality, saying the top 1 percent of Americans have too much wealth and power.”
—S.C. protesters disrupt Michele Bachmann speech
“College football is popular in the United States, drawing massive television audiences every Saturday in the late summer and autumn and filling huge stadiums.”
—Abuse victim’s mother says Paterno had to be fired
“Unlike most mobile-game crazes, Angry Birds — in which players use a slingshot to attack pigs who steal the birds’ eggs — has stayed at the top of the charts since it was launched for Apple’s iPhone on Dec 11, 2009.”
—Angry Birds tops 500 million downloads
October 2011
3 posts
“I think Rupert Murdoch is nearing his Rosebud moment,” he said in a reference to the 1941 Orson Welles film “Citizen Kane” about a fictional media mogul modeled on real-life U.S. newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst.”
—News Corp investors berate Murdoch at meeting
“Instantly recognizable from the sickly sweet, burned-leaf smell that wafts out onto the street, the Netherlands’ world-renowned ‘coffee shops’ are almost as common as supermarkets in big cities”
—Dutch fear threat to liberalism in “soft drugs” curbs
September 2011
9 posts
“The film, about a trio of university parapsychologists who begin a ghost eradication business after losing their grant — and find themselves saving the world…”
—“Ghostbusters” returning to theaters for limited run
“Renovating older buildings is pricey, but so is demolition.”
—Big chains and government target food deserts
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“And though they’d released their debut album in 1989, for all intents and purposes, Nirvana’s story really began with Nevermind, which, though it may seem incomprehensible to anyone who lived during the halcyon days of 1991, turns 20 on Saturday.”
Kindred spirits, us.
“The Postal Service relies on revenue from stamps, packages and other services”
—Obama’s Postal Service plan would cut Saturday mail
“Whether you’re in the boardroom or standing around the water cooler, how you dress influences how people perceive you.”
—Dress down Friday gets a makeover
“Twitter, whose microblogging service allows users to broadcast short, 140-character messages, or “tweets,” to groups of “followers.”
—Twitter’s board loses two early investors
“McCartney’s partnership with John Lennon in The Beatles in 1960s Britain produced some of the most famous and enduring pop songs of the past 50 years.”
—Paul McCartney posts wedding banns in London
“Gumby, a green humanoid figure who looks like an elastic stick of gum with limbs, was created in the 1950s by the late Art Clokey and his wife, Ruth.”
—Gumby attempted robbery suspect surrenders to San Diego police
“A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack.”
—Nicolas Cage awoken by naked man with Fudgesicle
