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• Greeks withdraw $894 million in a day: Is this beginning of a run on banks?

  Wed May 16, 2012
  • Greece is 2.5% of the EU economy and the major source of the "drag" on Euro. Should Greece exit the Euro the impact on the EU economy will be mariginal and after the initial speculator gold-rush (cashing in on the panic) the EU economy will improve all around.

• Physician: Zimmerman had broken nose, black eye

  Tue May 15, 2012
  • The truth is as follows: Zimmerman was inside a gated community where he/his parents owned a property. That pretty much means he was home.

• Facebook CEO's age is just a number, or is it?

  Sun May 13, 2012
  • "That's why Steve Jobs was ultimately forced out of Apple." Yeah, which worked really awesome for Apple... Riiight... The "venerable" Wall Street institutions can make a company a multi-million-dollar enterprise but only if it started as a billion-dollar enterprise.

• Degrees of debt: Soaring college costs hobble a generation

  Sat May 12, 2012
  • dslsca, well it is no longer socially accepted for middle class women to raise their own kids, so they go to work even if that means that their entire salary will go towards the daycare and work-related logistics costs with a significant decrease in the overall quality of the family life.

• Degrees of debt: Soaring college costs hobble a generation

  Sat May 12, 2012
  • Economan, progress in the MFG technology and the outsourcing caused for a lot of goods to be cheaper to manufacture (in the absolute terms) within the last 10 years so it may seem that the inflation is not that bad.

• Degrees of debt: Soaring college costs hobble a generation

  Sat May 12, 2012
  • Legal immigrants are paid the same as Americans because they live and pay taxes like Americans. What would be the point to be in the USA legally otherwise?

• Degrees of debt: Soaring college costs hobble a generation

  Sat May 12, 2012
  • The cost of university education did not go up. Neither did food or fuel or medial coverage...

• Border Patrol unveils first new strategy in 8 years, cracks down on Mexico's revolving door

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • "...it takes anywhere from 10-20 YEARS to even have your application looked at and reviewed."

• Border Patrol unveils first new strategy in 8 years, cracks down on Mexico's revolving door

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • Nobody except people crossing the Mexican border or Canadian border can come to the US illegaly. They don't have to be Mexican mind you to do it, it is just physically impossible for somebody from Brasil, Germany or Japan to simply walk over to the USA.

• Prostitute at center of Secret Service scandal: Agents were 'stupid brutes'

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • Escorts in the USA can charge up to several thousands bucks a night. It is not as unimaginable for an escort in Colombia to charge $800 as some might think.