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Obama’s revolution in American strategy

While the media has focused on the Republican presidential primaries, offstage the greatest revolution in American foreign policy in a generation has occurred, with little discussion or debate surrounding its announcement last week by President Obama.
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Voice-Operated Smart TVs May Spur Tech Profits
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas opening today, LG and Lenovo will show TVs that allow users to search for shows and Web applications with natural-sounding voice commands. Samsung introduced three high-end models with so- called Smart Interaction technology, which builds in motion- sensing and voice-command software similar to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 video-game console.

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas opening today.


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The Affordable Care Act, helping Americans curb health-care costs
The Affordable Care Act is putting consumers back in charge with two new rules that shine much-needed light on the health insurance market.

The first requires insurers to justify premium increases of more than 10 percent and to post that information online.

The second is the “80-20 rule,” which requires insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars on health care, rather than on advertising or executive pay. If they don’t, you get a rebate. Together, these changes are creating a health insurance market where premiums stay in check and Americans get their money’s worth.

U.S. economy created 200,000 jobs in December
The U.S. economy gained 200,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5%, the Labor Department said Friday. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had forecast the U.S. would add 150,000 jobs last month, with the jobless rate edging up to 8.7% from an initially reported 8.6% in November. Subtracting another decline in government jobs, the private sector boosted payrolls by 212,000. Average hourly earnings rose 0.2% last month to $23.24 and hours worked edged up to 34.4. Job gains for November and October were little changed. The U.S. created 1.64 million jobs in 2011.

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A Chinese Chart We'll Be Watching In 2012

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Failure to extend tax cut will slow recovery
The economy remains on shaky legs, and the combined impact of an increase in payroll taxes, a reduction in unemployment benefits, and the coming austerity measures as we begin dealing with the long-term debt issue could put a substantial drag on the already too slow recovery.

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Déjà vu: Today vs. March 2008

In a closer look below, the parallels between now and 2008 feels more like, well, déjà vu.

How gross and net CDS notionals really work
According to the DTCC, there is $75bn gross notional outstanding for CDS contracts referencing Greece. However, on a net basis this figure reduces substantially to $3.7bn.

Banks Bow to ‘Last Word’ From Merkel on Greek Debt
The world’s biggest banks bowed to what German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the “last word,” agreeing to write down their Greek government debt by half in the pivotal piece of the euro area’s bid to stem the financial crisis.

Amazon AWS might be a billion-dollar biz

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The Class War Has Begun

During the death throes of Herbert Hoover’s presidency in June 1932, desperate bands of men traveled to Washington and set up camp within view of the Capitol. The first contingent journeyed all the way from Portland, Oregon, but others soon converged from all over—alone, in groups, with families—until their main Hooverville on the Anacostia River’s fetid mudflats swelled to a population as high as 20,000.

US in possible downgrade encore shock
The “not-so-super” Deficit Commission is very unlikely to come up with a credible deficit reduction plan. The committee is more divided than the overall Congress.

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Amazon (AMZN) Brings Big Guns To The Publishing War

Amazon is playing to win in the ebook platform wars, and isn't afraid of pulling out the big guns. It is securing exclusive deals. It is building its own publishing house. It is doing everything to increase the number of available titles (see chart).

We believe the winning Kindle platform is likely to have network effects: the more titles it will have, the more consumers it will have, which will lead more titles to the platform and so on, in a virtuous cycle. This is the right move on Amazon's part. It will be fascinating to see what happens when Amazon get serious about streaming video.

Number of ebooks available for sale on US Kindle store

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Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Detailed Report, 403,000
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Groupon cutting back size of IPO
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Yahoo (YHOO) may get bid from Microsoft
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Electric DeLorean: First Drive

This weekend I drove the Electric DeLorean. I'm not laughing anymore.

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The Producer Price Index for finished goods rose 0.8 percent in September
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THE SEVEN BIGGEST ECONOMIC LIES
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The Amerislump  Is Upon Us
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Bank of America, Goldman Sachs Add to Earnings Disappointment
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Stocks: Investors on edge over Europe, earnings

U.S. stocks headed for a weak open Monday as relatively strong earnings from Citigroup and Wells Fargo failed to eliminate persistent jitters over Europe's debt crisis.

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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s general economic index rose to minus 8.5 from minus 8.8 in September. Economists projected an improvement to minus 4, based on the median of 53 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey.
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Euro zone eyes yet another "comprehensive strategy"
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What's Inside The iPhone 4S?

Apple Could Sell 4 Million Phones This Weekend
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Roubini: The Instability of Inequality
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Iceland's Katla volcano is getting restless

If Iceland's air-traffic paralyzing volcanic eruption last year seemed catastrophic, just wait for the sequel.

That's what some experts are saying as they nervously watch rumblings beneath a much more powerful Icelandic volcano - Katla - which could spew an ash cloud dwarfing the 2010 eruption that cost airlines $2 billion and drove home how vulnerable modern society is to the whims of nature.

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How JP Morgan Just Made $1.9 Billion By Everyone Betting Against Them
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JPMorgan Chase Reports Third-Quarter 2011 Net Income of $4.3 Billion, or $1.02 Per Share, on Revenue1 of $24.4 Billion
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Benford's Law and the Decreasing Reliability of Accounting Data" http://bit.ly/pn8Ovh
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NBC/WSJ poll: Cain now leads GOP pack
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China’s local governments dig deeper

So, China’s Golden Week was not as great for property sales as it usually is. Sales were down 32 per cent on the previous year in 20 major cities, Bloomberg tells us. Which has prompted a big fall for some property developers and financials, dragging down the Shanghai Composite and Hang Seng....
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GOLDMAN SACHS: China's Golden Week Signals A Soft Landing
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Netflix Backtracks − Abruptly Cancels Plan To Spin Off DVD Business
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Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working On Chips For The Post-PC Era
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Volcker’s ‘Delta one’ loophole
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What makes a reserve currency?

The issue now, says HSBC, is that many economies are beginning to question the use of the dollar in managing their own monetary systems. And, there are a lot of dollarised economies out there that could turn:

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Get Ready For Long Lines, And Big Sales For iPhone 4S
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It’s Man vs. Machine and Man Is Losing

Since the recession ended, businesses had increased their real spending on equipment and software by a strong 26%, while they have added almost nothing to their payrolls.
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Amazon Just Won The Android Tablet Wars With The $199 Kindle Fire
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Kindle Fire TV Commercial
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Deutsche Bank Predicts Quarterly Loss At Goldman Sachs
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Nvidia May Be Due For A Bounce
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ROUBINI: Recession Is At This Point Unavoidable, And It Could Be Worse Than 2008

Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini is calling it this morning, following a bout of dismal economic data around the world. Europe and the U.S. are "effectively in recession" and there's nothing policy makers can do to save them.

"Economy already in recession. Whatever the Fed does now is too little too late."

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Citi Strategist: Shrinking Share Counts Are Bullish For Stocks
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Will The IMF Save The World?
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ROB ARNOTT: We're In The Worst Depression Since The Great Depression

Rob Arnott says we're in the worst depression since the Great Depression and the Fed may be making things worse.
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• From 1979-2005, the average real income of families in the "middle" rose 21%
• Over the same period, the average real income of the richest 100th of one percent rose 480%, from $4 million to $24 million.

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