Ahhh, accounting. My love, my life, my paycheck. Some of you who read Jr Deputy Accountant often but do not know me personally or care to reach out (though you are always encouraged to do so - especially you, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan shhhh did I just call you out? Yes I did. Say hello. I don’t bite, I promise) may not know this but I am not a CPA nor do I have any desire at this point in my life to become one. I could certainly pull a 99 on each section of the CPA exam given the fact that I
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Obama said Thursday that he remains confident the economy will turn around in the short term and the nation will prosper in the long term despite another dose of bad unemployment news. “And I’m absolutely confident that we can, at this period of difficulty, prove, once again, what this nation can achieve when challenged,” Obama said. Pinocchio is at it again. Feeding more lies to those dumb enough to believe him! Recession-weary employers slashed 467,000 jobs in June , the Labor Departmen
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Finally, the article everyone is talking about is online! Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: The Great American Bubble Machine : T he first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money . . . . . . What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sac
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Self magazine isn’t known for embracing body diversity, so I was semi-surprised to see the oh, so cleverly titled Self piece “Sip ‘n Starve: Dangerous diets in disguise” republished on MSNBC today. Authored by Janelle Brown, who used to run the feminist ‘zine Maxi in the 1990s, the focus is on LA trendsetters who “starve themselves skinny” via “socially acceptable quasi-anorexia.” A marketing survey last summer found that the percentage of American adults on a diet has decreased by 10 percent
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As we’ve been known to do, we pinged Jonathan Miller ? real estate appraiser , Curbed graph guy , blogger , podcaster and, most importantly on this day, the man who prepares Elliman’s quarterly market reports?for a chat about the latest Manhattan numbers . CurbedWire: So what’s the biggest piece of bad news? JMillzInDaHouse: Well, it’s more like, what are they key stats for the quarter. The news wasn’t much of a surprise, its already a weak market CurbedWire: BORING CurbedWire:
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Hi, guys! Do you know that the weather in London is now warmer than in Bangkok? Phew, it’s really hot here! Well, MNO blog is also like London’s weather, always delivering you the hottest news and reviews. Today I would like to give the entire news section over to some recent happenings in the HYIP industry. I believe it would be best to start with the update I received last night from one of the best investment programs. GoldNuggetInvest (reviewed here ) is definitely one of the hottest p
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Manchester City Council was prevented from issuing hundreds of motoring penalty notices in time after the infamous Conficker worm knocked out parts of its IT systems.Drivers caught on camera driving in bus lanes escaped punishment after the town hall fine processing system was taken offline in February, following infection by the infamous worm. Failure to issue 1,609 tickets within the statutory limit of 28 days left the city £43,000 out of pocket.Clean up costs and consultancy fees were a far m
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Ten More to Be Charged in Madoff Case; British GDP Suffers Highest Drop in Half a Century; Housing Price Drops Slowing; GM Attempts to Emerge From Bankruptcy; Corn & Soybean Planting Up; AIG Gets Government-Backed Board; Japanese Memory Maker Gets BailoutTen more people will be charged in the Ponzi scheme masterminded by newly sentenced Bernie Madoff, The Associated Press has learned. An anonymous source would not detail what the potential charges would be or say whether any of the 10
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Ten More to Be Charged in Madoff Case; British GDP Suffers Highest Drop in Half a Century; Housing Price Drops Slowing; GM Attempts to Emerge From Bankruptcy; Corn & Soybean Planting Up; AIG Gets Government-Backed Board; Japanese Memory Maker Gets BailoutTen more people will be charged in the Ponzi scheme masterminded by newly sentenced Bernie Madoff, The Associated Press has learned. An anonymous source would not detail what the potential charges would be or say whether any of the 10
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Senator Al Franken: The Party of ‘No’ vs. The Party of ‘60′ by John Nichols - The Nation / Common Dreams The last barrier to Al Franken’s election as U.S. Senator from Minnesota crumbled Tuesday, as Republican incumbent Norm Coleman finally conceded the contest. Coleman’s concession came after the Minnesota Supreme Court confirmed what everyone pretty much knew: The voters chose Franken, the Democratic Farmer Labor Party candidate over Coleman in last fall’s U.S. Senate election. Whil
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