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SpaceX Launch, a New DawnThe three day unmanned mission will set the stage for future missions which NASA needs in order to continue a tour of missions. Currently, NASA is outsourcing its space travels to Russia which costs them $63 million for each trip, according to L.A. Times.
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Why You Should Vote Yes on Prop 29Voting yes on proposition 29 is a great way to boost cancer research without costing the taxpayer. As for the smokers, how many packs of smokes do you need to buy, anyways? This proposition will help save lives.
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California’s Budget ShortfallGovernor Brown wants to get California out of a hot mess by increasing sales tax a quarter of a percent for four years and taxing the rich. Poor Jerry Brown is still having to blame a recession that passed more than fours ago.
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Swiss Banks Report Record Suspicious ActivityRegulators around the world have been cracking down on the Swiss government has been influenced to fess up its dirty little secrets. There has been an alarming uptick in suspicious activity.
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Co-Founder of Facebook Saverin Gives Up U.S. CitizenshipFacebook’s co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, has renounces U.S. citizenship to clock his gains, which could amount to a total of $3.84 billion.
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Clooney’s Presidential Dinner Raising $15 Million PlusPeople have been voicing their concerns about the excessive costs of campaign fundraising by Obama—which is common for all Democrats recently. However, he has a really legitimate rebuttal which is “look at who I’m running against”—moneybags and then some.
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Indictment of High-Profile Lulz Sec HackersHigh-profile hackers of "Lulz Sec" are being indicted for six counts of various cyber crimes, including conspiracy to commit computer hacking, computer hacking under the name “Stratfor”, conspiracy to commit access device fraud and identity theft.
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O.C. Ponzi Schemer Gets Maximum SentenceDavid Sparks received a sentence ruling of six and a half years in prison, the maximum penalty for one count of wire fraud after having plead guilty to one count of wire fraud without contest.
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FBI Wary About Bitcoin Currency AdoptionAccording to the FBI, hackers using so-called “botnets” can easily tamper Bitcoin by tapping into personal users’ wallets and corrupting the mining process to profit illicitly.
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Colbert Puts Satirical Twist on Super PAC DebatePACs are a money-driven system that overtly will influence politics in different ways. Politico.com cites that Colbert and his following represent 2.5% of all Super PACs.
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A Race to the Bottom by Individual PoliticiansMore and more politicians seem to be mired by scandal, with the secret service scandal, Hermain Cain’s fall from grace and John Edwards’ criminal allegations. There is reason to believe that politicians in the U.S. are prone to scandal and criminality.
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CalSTRS Suing Wal-Mart for Bribery in MexicoThe California State Teachers’ Retirement System is suing Wal-Mart for its bribery scandal in Mexico saying that the company put the CalSTRS pension fund in jeopardy exposing it to liability unduly.
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Declassified Documents Reveal Insight into Al QaedaWhat the letters insinuate is Osama Bin Laden’s sheer poverty in his ability to lead; nowhere in the declassified letters are there hints of any real prominence. Rather, Bin Laden was not the puppet master that the media took him for.
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Office Salaries Are 3.45 Percent Higher Than Last YearComparing metropolitan areas New York ranks the highest in terms of indexed salary, San Francisco comes in second and D.C. actually ties in fifth place with Paramus, New Jersey.
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Silver Lining for New Orleans Saints ScandalVilma had renegotiated a $5.4 million salary down to $3.2 million in order to gain a signing bonus of $1 million. Though he will forgo his salary, he gets to keep the $1 million. And the Saints will increase their salary cap by $2 million.
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Google Street View Violated People’s PrivacyThree government agencies pursued Google and slapped them with a fine, French authorities cracked down on the company the hardest with a $132,000 fine.
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Loophole Lets Exxon Mobil Off the Hook from Disclosing Chemicals They UseALEC is procuring model legislation that lets big oil and gas companies off the hook for disclosing the chemicals they use in their oil exploration.
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First Case of Human Trafficking for Organs in the U.K.The first case of human trafficking for organs has been recently discovered in the U.K. Normally, people trafficking for organs are done in Eastern Europe and Africa.
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New Orleans Saints GM Allegedly Wiretapped the SuperdomeGeneral Manager for the New Orleans Saints Mickey Loomis allegedly committed illegal wiretapping between 2002 and 2004 NFL seasons. Mickey Loomis denies the allegations, if convicted he could face a severe suspension as GM and pay a stiff fine.
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Renewable Energy Trader Ocean Connect Sues EPAOcean Connect, a trading company, alleges that they did their proper due diligence and that the EPA did not by failing to discover this fraudulent activity. They feel they are the one’s holding the bag.
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Ireland is Back in Business“Irish business activity showed its strongest improvement in more than four years.”
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Asteroid Mining May Soon Become Next Stepping StoneStart-up company Planetary Resources wants to send unmanned spacecraft to asteroids for space exploration and mining of rich natural resources, which makes this start-up way ahead of its time.
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Nokia Tattoo Alerts when Phone is RingingNokia, the largest mobile phone maker in the world has recently patented their Nokia tattoo which can alert people when their phone is ringing by vibrating.
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Owner of the Anaheim Ducks Donates to Giving PledgeAt 58 Henry Samueli is a self-made billionaire who has the power and influence to advance the nation and the world at large with his philanthropy.
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Bumper Year for Bay Area Thanks to Healthy IPOsWhile the government can only incentivize and spur growth it can’t allocate resources; it doesn’t have the means to distribute wealth. Enterprises such as the ones of Silicon Valley have the ability of efficiently causing real growth.
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Soros’ Open Society Institute Paid Out More Than $10 Million in GrantsThe Open Society Institute is partially funded by the world famous yet highly controversial “Quantum Endowment Fund” with a market value of $1.056 billion, according to the foundation’s 2010 tax filing.
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Amazon Acquires Rights to James Bond NovelsAmazon recently acquired the rights to a collection of James Bond novels penned by the late Ian Fleming. Fourteen books in total, some of the notable titles include "Casino Royale", "The Spy Who Loved Me", "Goldfinger" and "Skyfall", which will hit screen
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California Budget Analyst Wants to Halt Bullet TrainAnyone who has ever been caught in traffic commuting to and from work knows how important it is for this high speed rail to be completed. Additionally, anyone who has ever taken the Amtrak all the way up north knows to get to any metro area within Califor
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Mutual-Fund Industry Suing CFTCnow the ICI who represents a large amount of the mutual fund industry is suing CFTC for being too thorough basically. Essentially, the letter of the law states somewhere that there should be a cost-benefit analysis before making a ruling like this.
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“Qualified Mortgage” Rule May Choke the Housing RecoveryIt’s nice to actually get rid of interest only loans—also known as bullet loans—and reverse amortization loans which were a capitalist’s dream and a homebuyer’s nightmare.
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China’s Central Bank Liberalizing the Chinese YuanThe policy instituted by a heavy-handed Chinese central bank essentially increases the trading band that the Yuan is allowed to trade in. In May of 2007 that trading range was increased from 0.3% per day to 0.5% per day; now the trading range is allowing
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Drone Aircraft May Be Used CommerciallyIt’s easy to add bells and whistles to the drones to have them do things such as deliver food to someone’s doorstop instead of having a caterer make the trip.
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Going on Facebook at Work is Not a CrimeThe 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it’s not a crime to break corporate policy when using the internet on a company computer at work.
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Sony Expects $6.44 Billion LossAccording to their earnings guidance as reported by The Hollywood Reporter Sony should return to profitability by 2013.
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Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1 BillionSince 2010 Instagram has built a base of 30 million users and that number is expected to double with its introduction on the Android platform.According to Zuckerberg, photo sharing is the number one appreciated service on Facebook so it would make sense t
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Home Buying Frenzy on the Westside?With a market improving as well as the high-end luxury market is, it may mean that the inventory hangover experienced for the last five some odd years will improve overall.
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AEG May Buy NFL Team for L.AAnschutz who is willing to fork over lots of money to buy an NFL team for L.A. Anschutz has invested $27 million for a stadium which has been a project and a half to say the least.
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YouTube Gets Overruled in a $1 Billion Lawsuit by ViacomAccording to Reuters, the plaintiffs allege YouTube “pirated” 79,000 copyrighted videos between 2005 and 2008.
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Jacobs Engineering Group Lands $157 Million Army ContractJacobs Engineering Group based in Pasadena, Calif. has just solidified a one-year Army contract with the potential of $157 million including two one-year options.
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KTLA Gets Pulled from DirecTV SubscribersDirecTV filed a complaint to the FCC over Tribune’s side of the bargain which may not be fair. With 19.9 million subscribers DirecTV could potentially pay up to $19.9 million per month according to the 1992 Cable Act.
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Mega Millions Similar to Irrational Exuberance Experienced in MarketsWhen investments have big payoffs but only a small probability of success people still use the net present value method. Effectively, economic theory says that those people who think they are acting rational merely select a risk and return profile that th
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Hollywood's Hunger for Young-Adult Novels“The Hunger Games” is a serious needle-mover. In 2008 Suzanne Collins—author of the novels—was paid $200 thousand when it had sold a sizeable but not meteoric 150,000 copies. After “The Hunger Games”, studios are willing to pay up to $1 million.
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Apple Entering a New Company LifecycleApple won’t have a new product line or innovation, just legacy products that will invariably become obsolete if Steve Jobs vision for the company doesn't live on.
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Where’s the Last Stop for Southern California Rapid Transit?Greater Los Angeles may be seeing the home stretch for a rapid transit system that has been complicated and a long time in the making.
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Cost of CalPERS Pension Going UpCalPERS has lowered their benchmark rate based on a majority vote. This means a higher requirement to fund future payments of the California pension system.
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Cloud Rental Service Adopted by Wal-MartDistribution of media is welcoming change with cloud computing. For $2 Wal-Mart customers may convert their DVD to digital form and access it however they choose through the "cloud".
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Teens Are Watching More TV Than You ThinkTeens are watching more TV than what was suspected based on popular perception. In fact teens are watching nearly 4 hours a day which is up from last year.
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Facebook IPO May Create its Eighth BillionaireFacebook's "gang of seven" is cumulatively worth $28.7 billion. Nasdaq and NYSE are duking it out who gets the coveted IPO listing of Facebook.
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The Movie "John Carter" was Going to Be Called "A Princess of Mars"When "John Carter" opens in theaters people may love the story but some people may not choose to see the movie at all based on its pre-screening statistics.
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Google Play Offers Comprehensive MediaGoogle play offers a lot but it has stiff competition.
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Yelp IPO Success Proves Meaningful Comments Are ValuableYelp's IPO price was $15, it's first trading session ended with the stock going up 67%.
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AMC Theaters Being Sued Over Candy and SodaThe cost of going to the movies is very high but movie ticket prices haven't gone up as much as concession prices.
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‘The Lorax’ Has People Buzzing; Possible $60M Opening'The Lorax' has been met with early success as a surprisingly controversial animated movie.
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"The Hunger Games" Projecting $242M in Opening Month"The Hunger Games" is a movie franchise that could profit $1B.
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Disney Reflects America’s Own DigressionsDisney's transgression, Habit Heroes, nonsense of 24-hour leap day celebration.
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Google’s YouTube is Exploring New Bounds in MediaNew media is driving internet companies to adopt new ways of disseminating news and entertainment.
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Google and Facebook Share Same ThreatsAn in depth look at the internet giants with a SWOT analysis.
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The Business of Legalizing Marijuana: A Potential Cash CropIt looks at the realities of legalizing marijuana in California and how the state can benefit from it.
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The Social Network’s Discretionary CodeA look at a potential threat to Facebook and its users and how they are handling their privacy issues.
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Profit from Fake Marijuana? a Dangerous EndeavorA look at the dangers of legal synthetic marijuana.
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Commodity Spotlight: Post Civil War HighsA cursory look at cotton: price action, worldwide production, supply and demand.
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Online News Trumps Print News ReadershipOnline news overtakes print news in 2011, how much will people pay for online news? Already the NYTimes has made its content premium, who will follow suit?
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Inflation is a Buzzword for 2011Explanation as to why inflation is merely a buzzword now and why inflation expectations is what will change policymakers' minds.
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An Introduction to Discounted Cash Flow AnalysisTakes the DCF analysis and uses an example to explain basic computation with variables like cost of capital in mind.
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Investing in Options and OTC OptionsOTC options from a professional's point of view.
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Investing in Commodities; Reading ChartsBefore investing in commodities it's crucial to know how to read charts, this article teaches price bar action with price, volume, and open interest examined.
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Trading Tactic: Currency Carry TradeExplains a carry trade with terminology like "swap in" and "swap out".
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How to Use the MACD IndicatorPopular trading indicator, MACD, how it's used, when to buy on it, when to sell on it.
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CAPM- the Capital Asset Pricing ModelCAPM model in finance literature, understanding the variables that plug into the model; such as, risk-free rate, beta, and market risk premium
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Analyzing AnalystsOverview of market analysts with regard to their function and conflicting interests.
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Advice for the Small Trader from a ProAdvice from one of the best women trader's as covered in "High Profits in High Heels"
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Europe Hammering Out a Deal: Is the Euro in Trouble?The euro is not reflecting a crisis situation. Europe is challenged with a systemic, pervasive problem. A deal in Europe should result in a reconciliation with the euro falling.
