10/11/2008 -
The Jokes' on US: Gallows humour in time of financial meltdown
WASHINGTON: When in pain, laugh. Americans are trying to follow this new prescription amid a financial conflagration that is burning up everything from their 401K retirement account to the value of their homes to pride in their market economy.
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The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/The_Jokes_on_US_Gallows_humor_in_time_of_fina
ncial_meltdown/articleshow/3584782.cms
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10/12/2008 -
AIG's gallows humor gives bankers a laugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Insurance giant American International Group, on the receiving end of a multi-billion dollar bailout from the U.S. Federal Reserve, was trying hard on Saturday to look on the bright side of life.
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Reuters via Yahoo! India News
http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20081012/371/tbs-aig-s-gallows-humor-gives-bankers-
a_1.html
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10/11/2008 -
The Jokes' on US: Gallows humor in time of financial meltdown
In New York, a clock that counts the national debt ran out of digits when it ticked over $10 trillion. Top 10 US bank failures | 2008, year of global financial crisis
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The Economic Times
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/International_Business/The_Jokes_on_US_
Gallows_humor_in_time_of_financial_meltdown/rssarticleshow/3584872.cms
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10/11/2008 -
The Jokes' on US: Gallows humour in time of financial meltdown
When in pain, laugh. Americans are trying to follow this new prescription amid a financial conflagration that is burning up everything.
Source:
The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/USA/The_Jokes_on_US_Gallows_humour_in_t
ime_of_financial_meltdown/rssarticleshow/3584782.cms
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10/11/2008 -
AIG's gallows humour gives bankers a laugh
Sat 11 Oct, 2008 20:12
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Interactive Investor
http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=reutersnews&articleid=TRE49A3NR&feed=Bus
&action=article
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10/10/2008 -
John Rentoul: Gordon's gallows humour
The posh word is dissonance. Several of my colleagues have been mightily impressed that the Prime Minister was able to make a spontaneous quip last night when a mobile rang in the audience for his speech: "I don't know if another bank has fallen..."
Source:
Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/a-hrefhttpblogsin
dependentcoukopenhouse200810byjohnrentoulhtmljohn-rentoul-gordons-gallows-humour
a-957237.html
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10/11/2008 -
GE profit falls 22 pct, meeting lowered forecast
HARTFORD, Conn. -- General Electric Co. spared investors any nasty new surprises as it reported a 22 percent drop in third-quarter earnings, meeting its own lowered forecast and blaming the decline on its struggling financial arm. The company's loan and lease business has been battered by the worse financial crisis since the 1929 stock market crash.
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101000937.
html
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10/12/2008 -
Market has many on edge
Greg Strintz went out and bought a bottle of Scotch last week. "I'd rather go for a run to relieve the stress," he says, "but I have a pretty bad cold, right now."
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South Bend Tribune
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081012/News01/81012
0393
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10/12/2008 -
Prisons set to thrill
Looking for ghostly thrills this Halloween? Head straight to prison.
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Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/article/20081012/FEATURES07/810120367/1025/rss05
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10/10/2008 -
The good, the ban, the ugly: Return of short sales likely added to turmoil
These days, weary traders like to joke that there only two positions you can take in a market like this: cash or fetal. It's the kind of gallows humor that helps investors survive brutal days like yesterday. At one point,...
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The Star-Ledger
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2008/10/the_good_the_ban_the_ugly_retu.html
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10/12/2008 -
Haunts around the world
Want to give yourself a fright? Check out these fearsome destinations around the globe.
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Orange County Register
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/castle-salem-halloween-2191561-haunts-ghosts
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10/12/2008 -
CA-BUSINESS Summary
WASHINGTON/CANBERRA (Reuters) - Rich nations rushed to shore up the global financial system after the International Monetary Fund warned of meltdown, with Australia and New Zealand guaranteeing bank deposits and newspapers reporting plans for Britain's biggest retail bank rescue.
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The Globe and Mail
http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/ROC.20081012.2008-10-12T100920Z_01_TR
E49B1G1_RTROPTT_0_CBUSINESS-SUMMARY/GIStory/
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10/12/2008 -
CA-BUSINESS Summary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Finance leaders from the International Monetary Fund's 185 member countries on Saturday endorsed a plan by major economies to chart a course out of the credit crisis, hoping the broader support will calm markets.
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The Globe and Mail
http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/ROC.20081012.2008-10-12T093542Z_01_TR
E49B1D8_RTROPTT_0_CBUSINESS-SUMMARY/GIStory/
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10/11/2008 -
Literary Calendar
10:30 A.M. Children's author Mem Fox and author and illustrator Helen Oxenbury read from and discuss their new picture book, Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes , at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919.
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100902520.
html
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10/12/2008 -
Bank on Banks
If you're a fan of mystery novelist Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, stop reading now. In all probability you already have his new book, All the Colours of Darkness.
Source:
Calgary Sun
http://calsun.canoe.ca/Showbiz/2008/10/12/7058951-sun.html
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