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It’s a NIRP world and you are either in it, or are determined to lose the currency wars. And hours ago, the world’s oldest central bank, that of Sweden, announced that it too would join its NIRP peers in an attempt to preserve its currency’s fighting power in the global currency wars which make a…
For a week, The Toronto Star has been taking criticism over a story detailing health problems experienced by young women after they took the HPV vaccine. Some in the medical community called it alarmist and scientifically-unsound. The publisher, John Cruickshank, now says the paper failed the public and let them down. Cruickshank tells As It Happens…
article start Americans saved at the pump last month as gasoline prices fell to levels last seen in 2009. But where did that money go? Thursday’s retail-sales report from the Commerce Department didn’t contain many answers. Overall sales fell in January for the second straight month, largely due to a 9.3% decline in sales at gas stations….
I really dislike the new Tumblr editor, for a variety of technical reasons. For example, if I create a blockquote with paragraph breaks (HTML <p> and </p>) in the HTML edit view, returning to the Rich Text view converts those to breaks (<br>), and then the paragraphs have no space between them. Grrr. But M.G…
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Costco to stop accepting American Express cards in U.S. from next April Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:57am EST Tweet Share this Email Print American Express and American Express corporate cards are pictured in Encinitas, California October 17, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Mike Blake (Reuters) – American Express Co (AXP.N) said Costco Wholesale Corp (COST.O) would stop…
Just a little over a week after announcing the winners of its News Challenge on libraries, the Knight Foundation has revealed the latest recipients of its Prototype Fund. Ten media projects will receive $35,000 in funding to help push them from early stage ideas to a formal launch. Knight launched the Prototype Fund in 2012…
Queens Rents Get Pricier Than Brooklyn’s, Report Finds View Full Caption NEW YORK CITY — Queens’ rental prices are catching up to Brooklyn’s — and surpassing them. The ascendance of Queens has been a common refrain for more than a year now. Last month’s rents for the “hot” northwestern part of the borough that includes…
BuzzFeed has named Lee Brown chief revenue officer. Brown was most recently head of global sales for Tumblr. Prior to joining Tumblr, Brown served as senior VP of national sales for Groupon. “Bringing over two decades of sales experience and leadership to BuzzFeed, Lee will be responsible for driving business globally with new and existing revenue…
A year ago, I wrote a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer about female runner harassment. I didn’t offer safety tips. Instead, I called for us to take the blame off women who were harassed and hoisting it on to the people doing the harassing. To prove that point, I wrote about what had happened to me…