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Oct. 13, 1884: Greenwich Resolves Subprime Longitude Crisis 1884: Geographers and astronomers adopt Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, the international standard for zero degrees longitude. The late 19th century was an era of standardization. With the Second Industrial Revolution stimulating world trade, the Treaty of the Meter established the Interna Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Oct. 13, 1884: Greenwich Resolves Subprime Longitude Crisis 1884: Geographers and astronomers adopt Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, the international standard for zero degrees longitude. The late 19th century was an era of standardization. With the Second Industrial Revolution stimulating world trade, the Treaty of the Meter established the Interna Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The Wealthy Don't Make Greenwich Republican A Political Wire reader takes issue with the idea that Greenwich, CT is a good example of how the affluent were key to Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election. "Your post about Greenwich was interesting, but contains a basic and very common misconception about Greenwich; m Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Subprime crisis draws FBI scrutiny as Fed meets WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The shadow of an FBI investigation spread across the subprime mortgage crisis on Tuesday, while the U.S. Congress moved closer to emergency relief for millions of distressed homeowners. Home > Rss Directory > General > Reuters |
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Subprime crisis draws FBI scrutiny as Fed meets
(Reuters) Reuters - The shadow of an FBI investigation spread across the subprime mortgage crisis on Tuesday, while the U.S. Congress moved closer to emergency relief for millions of distressed homeowners. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Bet against the bubble - how to head off a subprime crisis More speculation, not less, is the key We all know what to do about this subprime mess, the credit-crisis final-end-of-capitalism farrago, don't we? Hang the bankers, hang them high, banish greed and stupidity from the human soul, bring in a very real change to our mass, crass, consumerism and us Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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FBI Opens Subprime Inquiry - New York Times Montreal GazetteFBI Opens Subprime InquiryNew York Times - 2 hours agoBy VIKAS BAJAJ The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened criminal inquiries into 14 companies as part of a wide-ranging investigation of the troubled mortgage industry, FBI officials said Tuesda Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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What's the Matter with Greenwich? Daniel Gross notes that exit polls show the rich -- "and yes, if you make $250,000 or more you're rich" -- voted for Barack Obama for president "by bigger margins than did the merely well-off. If the exit polls are to be believed, those making $200,000 or more (6 percent of the electorate) voted for Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Subprime woes to hit student loans Students relying on college loans will soon feel the pinch from the subprime mortgage crisis, according to a report by financial aid guide FinAid this week. Home > Rss Directory > Business > CNN |
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Baltimore Finds Subprime Crisis Snags Women In Baltimore and elsewhere around the country, subprime mortgages, which are driving the foreclosure rate, have gone disproportionately to women. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Congressional panel rips subprime CEOs' lavish pay - Reuters Los Angeles TimesCongressional panel rips subprime CEOs' lavish payReuters - 2 hours agoBy Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fat compensation packages of three US CEOs whose companies are being hammered by the widening mortgage crisis came under harsh criticis Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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No help for 70% of subprime borrowers Seven out of 10 seriously delinquent subprime mortgage borrowers are still not getting the help they need to keep their homes, according to a report released Tuesday by state officials working to stem the foreclosure crisis. Home > Rss Directory > Business > CNN |
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Lone Star Equity Buys 90.8 Percent Of German Bank Beset By Subprime Loans (AHN) (AHN) - The Lone Star Equity Group, a Dallas-based firm, purchased a majority stake in IKB Deutsche Industriebank, Germany's first and most prominent victim of the subprime mortgage crisis. - Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:28:40 GMT Home > Rss Directory > Business > AllHeadline |
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Subprime crisis: A timeline The subprime mortgage meltdown and resulting rippling repercussions have a brief, but dramatic, history. Home > Rss Directory > Business > CNN |
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June 16, 1884: Roller Coasters -- A Technology With Plenty of Ups and Downs 1884: The first gravity roller coaster designed and built specifically as an amusement ride opens at Coney Island, New York. It is a commercial success and leads to the building of roller coasters all over the world. LaMarcus Adna Thompson's Coney Island coaster, which, for a nickel ( Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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June 16, 1884: Roller Coasters -- A Technology With Plenty of Ups and Downs 1884: The first gravity roller coaster designed and built specifically as an amusement ride opens at Coney Island, New York. It is a commercial success and leads to the building of roller coasters all over the world. LaMarcus Adna Thompson's Coney Island coaster, which, for a nickel ( Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Wheels: At Greenwich Concours, Heat Wins Out The frustrating thing about the Greenwich Concours d’ Élégance here on Saturday was the wilting nearly 90-degree temperature in which it was held. Home > Rss Directory > General > NY Time |
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Stocks Soar on Hopes for Subprime Solution The stock market had its best day in six years Thursday on reports that the government could dust off an old solution to the financial crisis on Wall Street, while Oracle had surprisingly good news for the tech sector after the close. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Internet.com |
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UBS facing subprime banking investigations: report - Reuters EarthtimesUBS facing subprime banking investigations: reportReuters - 7 hours agoCHICAGO (Reuters) - US government prosecutors are investigating whether Swiss banking giant UBS misled investors by reporting inflated prices of mortgage-backed securities it held despite Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Oct. 30, 1961: USSR's Biggest-Bang Theory Put to Test 1961: The Soviet Union detonates the largest nuclear or thermonuclear weapon ever constructed. The Tsar Bomba (as it was known in the West; the Soviets referred to it as Big Ivan or, more officially, RDS-220) was a three-stage hydrogen device with a 100-megaton capacity. Andrei Sakharov Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |