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- Financial Crisis Suicide Numbers Mounting
  Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post
  Across the country, authorities are becoming concerned that the nation's financial woes could turn increasingly violent, and they are urging people to get help. In some places, mental-health hot lines are jammed, counseling services are in high demand and domestic-violence shelters are full.
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- Switching to Cash May Feel Safe, but Risks Remain
  Posted by Jeff from Cnbc
  This fall, Javier Estrada, a professor of finance at IESE Business School in Barcelona, published a similar study in The Journal of Investing that looked at equity markets in 15 nations, including the United States. A portfolio belonging to an investor who missed the 10 best days over several decades across all of those markets would end up, on average, with about half the balance of someone who sat tight throughout.
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- Tired of Real Estate, Try Cyber Real Estate
  Posted by marcuscrockett2
  Great article on the state of the cyber-real estate industry. Good read for all investors.
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- Microsoft shares fall after earnings news, analysts react
  Posted by Jeff from Blog.seattletimes.nwsource
  Microsoft's continued series of dubious acquisitions, sloppy pursuit of google and failed technical execution may finally be catching up to the company. Stock down to $25.00 a share. The stock has failed to show growth from its heights in 99 and 00 (like many other tech boom stocks).
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- Which Way Will Oil Prices Go?
  Posted by weissinc
  Saudi Arabia said on Friday that it would raise its daily output by 300,000 barrels per day … Angola is scheduled to start shipping a new blend of crude oil in July, boosting production by about 90,000 barrels a day… Iraqi oil production rose to more than 2.5 million barrels a day last week, the highest this year…
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- Bill Gates pushes coal
  Posted by lisa from Grist
  Cascade Investment Management, Gates' personal investment company, is the largest stakeholder (9 percent) in a controversial coal project in Minnesota. Interestingly, Gates' friend billionaire Warren Buffett recently canceled six planned coal projects. As for whether coal can be produced without contributing to climate change, Wikipedia says "there are no coal-fired power plants in commercial production which capture all carbon dioxide emissions, so the process is theoretical and experimental and thus a subject of feasibility or pilot studies."
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- Can You Beat the Market? It’s a $100 Billion Question
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  INVESTORS collectively spend around $100 billion a year trying to beat the stock market. That’s the finding of a rigorous effort to measure the total costs of Americans’ efforts to surpass the returns they would have received by simply holding a stock index fund. The huge price tag helps explain why beating a buy-and-hold strategy is so difficult.
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rhoehn comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

There is no such thing as clean coal. Its a re-branding on the same dirty thing.

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1:14 pm 5/09/08
theangryindian comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Gates understands full well the implications. He knows neo-cons will spend money on coal. And it seems windmills.

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8:52 am 5/08/08
Jeff comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Chuck, seems like Gates doesn’t understand that the overall impact on the world of his actions (personal and professional) are just as important as the persona he tries to create with his foundation. Or perhaps we can one day erect different statues to Microsoft Bill, Philanthropist Bill and Indifferent Globalization Evangelist Bill.

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1:23 pm 5/07/08
carley comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Talk about backwards progress. Gates needs to get his act together and start investing in the technology of the future. Isn’t the Midwest synonymous with wind these days? I can’t say that I’m surprised, though, given some of the gaffes his company has made regarding environmental issues in the Northwest.

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10:36 am 5/07/08
chuckt comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

It looks to me like the Minnesota lawmakers don’t really understand the difference between the Gates Foundation and Gates’ personal investment company.

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10:33 am 5/07/08
garrettmoon comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Sadly if you look at all of our presidential candidates you’ll find that they all support coal as well. ’Clean’ coal, but does clean coal exist? You still have to tear up mountains, destroy streams and decimate communities, even if you scrub the air clean. The problem is that the US has more coal than anyone else in the world, and plenty of it to solve all of our fuel issues*. If we change our reliance of fuel to coal, we no longer rely on foreign oil, and everything becomes peachy again*.
*not everything is really peachy and our problems aren’t really solved, they’re just different problems.

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10:31 am 5/07/08
Jon comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Making sure that philanthropists are investing their assets in alignment with their social missions is a hugely important (and oft-overlooked) aspect of pushing social change. Bravo to Grist for shining the spotlight on this.

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10:29 am 5/07/08