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		<title>The French Fraud King &#8211; $7.14 billion fraud by one man</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS (AP) &#8212; In what appears to be the largest trading fraud ever carried out by a single person, a young trader at French bank Societe Generale is accused of making unauthorized bets on stock markets that cost the bank nearly $7.2 billion but may not have netted him a cent.
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		<title>Recession 2008: How bad it can get</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; The sputtering U.S. economy has gotten everyone from the financial markets to the Federal Reserve to Congress in a panic.
But here&#8217;s a disheartening message for those already worried about economic growth &#8212; it could get much worse.
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		<title>Inflation Monster Gobbling Consumer Pocketbooks Worldwide!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Federal Reserve&#8217;s recent decision to sharply cut its benchmark interest rate prompted a happy response from investors, so it may seem strange that many other central banks aren&#8217;t making similar cuts. Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, stomped out speculation (Bloomberg) that he might follow the Fed&#8217;s lead. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=busnews.wordpress.com&blog=2464596&post=258&subd=busnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe Releases $10 Million Bill &#8211; Which is Worth USD $4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the US economy inches ever closer to a recession, it might provide a little perspective to look at what a real economic crisis looks like. Plagued by hyperinflation of over 50,000% a year, Zimbabwe&#8217;s central bank recently decided to issue $10 million notes&#8211; believed to be the highest denomination of currency in the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=busnews.wordpress.com&blog=2464596&post=256&subd=busnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxpayers could get checks under economic stimulus plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; U.S. taxpayers would get checks of several hundred dollars from the federal government under a plan to stimulate the economy, congressional and Bush administration officials said Thursday.

&#8220;Tens of millions Americans will have a check in the mail,&#8221; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said at a Capitol Hill news conference. &#8220;It is there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=busnews.wordpress.com&blog=2464596&post=254&subd=busnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Buy Cashes in on Heath Ledger&#8217;s Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Angry Employee Deletes All of Company&#8217;s Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Call it a tale of revenge gone wrong.
When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss&#8217;s phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired.
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		<title>Saddam faked having WMD to prevent possible Iran invasion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(CBS) Saddam Hussein initially didn&#8217;t think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen. The Iraqi dictator revealed this thinking to George Piro, the FBI agent assigned to interrogate him after his capture.
Piro, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=busnews.wordpress.com&blog=2464596&post=247&subd=busnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is not a joke folks&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet-based group &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; has released statements on YouTube and via a press release, outlining what they call a &#8220;War on Scientology&#8221;. Church of Scientology related websites, such as religiousfreedomwatch.org have been removed due to a suspected distributed denial-of-service-attack (DDoS) by a group calling themselves &#8220;Anonymous&#8221;. On Friday, the same group allegedly brought down Scientology&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=busnews.wordpress.com&blog=2464596&post=244&subd=busnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now the Three Little Pigs are racist!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A story based on the Three Little Pigs fairy tale has been turned by a government agency&#8217;s awards panel as the subject matter could offend Muslims. 
The digital book, re-telling the classic story, was rejected by judges who warned that &#8220;the use of pigs raises cultural issues&#8221;. 
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