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Should journalists break news on Twitter first?
// technology
11 hours ago
by nowherewithyou
This is a hot topic lately. This week, both Sky News and the BBC journalists were officially told by their organizations not to break news via Twitter before writing something for work. The Guardian reports: The new BBC guidelines are intended to ensure that stories are fed into the BBC’s newsgather ...
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Romney Loses Frontrunner Status?
// politics
13 hours ago
by Doug Schoen
Follow Doug on Twitter @DouglasESchoen With Rick Santorum's three victories yesterday in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado, the whole nature of the Republican race has changed. And changed in a profound way. [1]Mitt Romney - Illustration (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey) That air of inevitability that Mitt ...
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The IMF Deserves To Be Put On A Drastic Diet
13 hours ago
by Steve Forbes
This article originally appeared in the Feb. 27, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. Yet another enemy of the people is the International Monetary Fund. The latest example of its toxic economic programs is Hungary. It wants the country to ditch its recently enacted flat tax on personal incomes, according ...
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Slay the Basel Accord Beast
// politics
13 hours ago
by Steve Forbes
This article originally appeared in the Feb. 27, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. The Fed is not the only obstacle to a sound, sustainable expansion. One constructive step the next President’s new financial team should take is to have the U.S. abandon the so-called Basel Accord approach to internation ...
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Ben Bernanke: Supreme Socialist
13 hours ago
by Steve Forbes
[1]Image by Getty Images via @daylife This article originally appeared int he Feb. 27, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. You thought socialism was dead, other than in miserable countries such as North Korea and Cuba? Think again. It’s alive and well at the Federal Reserve, and we and the world are payi ...
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