Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Seven and a half things you need to know

  • Chris Christie To Economy: Drop Dead: Seven And A Half Things To Know

    Programming Note: This is the last newsletter produced with the assistance of Khadeeja Safdar, who for some reason has decided to further her education rather than continue her daily search for tweets and calendar items.

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  • Mitt Romney's Mystery Economics: Seven And A Half Things To Know

    Thing One: Meet The Real Mitt: Hello, America, are you super-excited about the chance this week to meet the "real" Mitt Romney, in Florida?

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  • It's Expensive To Fool Mother Nature: Seven And A Half Things To Know

    Thing One: Nature Versus Us: Somebody must have given Mother Nature some Chiffon margarine, because She is pissed. Tropical Storm Isaac is churning for the Gulf Coast, where it is expected to make landfall today or Tuesday, almost seven years to the ...

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  • Seven And A Half Things To Know: Regulators Scramble To Find New Way To ...

    Mark Gongloff is off the newsletter this morning. So today's 7.5 Things are brought to you by Jillian Berman. Thing One: Regulators Scrambling For New Plan: After regulators backed down from their initial plan to rein in a practice that critics say is ...

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  • Seven And A Half Things To Know: Paul Ryan Takes A Page From The Mitt ...

    This is the man who as chairman of the House budget committee proposed cuts on things that Americans have gotten kind of used to, like food stamps and health care, both in retirement and for the poor, according to Bloomberg.

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  • Seven And A Half Things To Know: UK Regulators Ask US To Settle Standard ...

    The Libor panel, which includes leaders from Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland -- banks that have been implicated in the Libor scandal -- are considering options like using a "trade reporting mechanism" to determine the rate, based on, you know, ...

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  • BREAKING: Private Equity Perhaps Not Entirely Evil: Seven And A Half Things ...

    Thing One: The Many Faces Of Private Equity: Private equity is apparently a far more complicated subject than we had been led to believe.

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  • Citigroup Is Just The Right Height: Seven And A Half Things To Know

    Thing One: Citigroup Is Juuuust Right: Like Billy Joel, Vikram Pandit loves Citigroup just the way it is. The Citi CEO told the Financial Times that the third-biggest U.S.

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  • Seven And A Half Things To Know: MF Global Will Reportedly Escape Criminal ...

    Thing Two: Money Laundering Will Apparently Cost You: Standard Chartered agreed to pay a $340 million fine to a New York state regulator to settle Iran money laundering claims, but that may not be the half, or third, of it. The bank may have to pay up ...

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  • Now Who Will Rescue Us From The Knights? Seven And A Half Things To Know

    Thing One: Who Will Save Us From The Robots? So, hooray, Knight Capital has been rescued from its own stupidity. Now who will rescue the stock market from things like Knight Capital? Knight is the brokerage firm whose high-speed-trading computers went ...

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  • Banks Heroically Prevent Next Housing Bubble: Seven And A Half Things To Know

    Unless you're the Chinese government. They don't seem to have a problem with it. Thing Seven: To Save The Planet, We Had To Destroy It: So here's a little lesson in unintended consequences for you: The New York Times writes about how, in order to get ...

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  • Fed, ECB Fight To See Who Can Do Less: Seven And A Half Things To Know

    Thing Two: Who Needs Libor Anyway? So you know that LIBOR rate, which has been used in every loan since Adam Smith was in short pants?

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  • Seven And A Half Things To Know: Facebook Hits Newest Low

    Thing Seven And One Half: Paul Ryan As Sex Symbol: Well, this is awkward. Apparently the voters are clamoring for shirtless pictures of Paul Ryan, you know, to help them make the right decision about who should be second in line to run our country, ...

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  • Seven things to know before you start your day

    However, the Columbus Park Neighborhood Association and the Buffalo West Side Environmental Defense Fund, which contend that there's no need for the expansion, haven't given up the fight. ... Some things you do for love. If Hugh Laurie, the highest ...

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  • Paul Ryan And Economists Just Can't Agree On These 7 Things

    But as The Huffington Post's Mark Gongloff notes, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/23/seven-and-a-half-things-you-need-to-know_n_1447140.html" target="_hplink">Social Security just needs to get tweaked</a> to ensure that we all will have ...

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  • BizNext: 7 things you need to know today 8.2.12

    BizNext: 7 things you need to know today 8.2.12 ... The cost for nonmembers is $49. Venture capital investments in new companies in China is down in the first half of 2012, to $1.9 billion, down 43 percent from last year. Yelp, a website for customer ...

    www.bizjournals.com

  • It's Kristen Wiig's Birthday! Celebrate With a First Look at the Next 3 (and a ...

    Celebrate With a First Look at the Next 3 (and a Half) Things You'll See Her In. by Megan Angelo · Comments Post a comment Wednesday, 08/22/2012 2:30 PM.

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  • Most Religious Football Players And Coaches (PHOTOS)

    7, 2012, file photo, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees watches from the sidelines during the first half of an NFL wild card playoff football game against the Detroit Lions in New Orleans.

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  • 5 things you need to know about building permits in Charlotte

    You might see quirks. The work might only be half complete at the time of a tax assessment, for instance, but that should be noted.

    www.charlotteobserver.com

  • 10 things you didn't know about Tech assistant Joe Speed

    They didn't interact much, but, Speed said, "What I did know is that when he came, defensively we didn't have to play as long because he took care of things on the offensive side of the ball." 4. Following graduation, Speed chose to join the U.S ...

    blogs.ajc.com

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