Traders buy and sell currencies with the hope of making a profit when the value of the currencies changes in their favor. Is this smart or risky investing? picked by seofeed 3 years ago

The financial crisis that began 13 months ago has entered a new, far more serious phase. Lingering hopes that the damage could be contained to a handful of financial institutions that made bad bets on mortgages have evaporated. New fault lines are emerging beyond the original problem in areas like credit-default swaps, the credit insurance contracts sold by American International Group Inc. and o... read full post picked by bingo 1 year ago

A Senate subcommittee investigation last year found that hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC, which collapsed in 2006 after losing more than $6 billion in natural-gas trades, had shifted its activities to ICE from the regulated Nymex to avoid trading limits, and that the "excessive speculation" raised homeowners' heating bills.
*About time. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, may end up just like Martha Stewart. picked by JoshSF49 1 year ago

"Turning the economic crisis into one of those clever internet memes." Too funny not to post. picked by MissWinkle 1 year ago

Causes a stir with his possible obscene gestures. picked by tomphoolry 3 years ago

Four billion years ago, Uranus and Neptune switched places during a gentle ride out to their current orbits. That's the conclusion of Steve Desch, an astrophysicist at Arizona State University, who thinks that all of the gas giant planets took shape twice as close to the sun as they are at present. His work could cut out much of the mystery of how our "impossible" solar system formed. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Police set up a sex sting at the Days Inn on Dixie Highway last weekend, expecting to arrest women who came there to trade sex for money.
They also found something else: a woman accused of trading sex for gasoline.

I saw this on the news last night...too bad I couldn't find a pic of her....she looks like the girl in the picture's genetically mutated, drunk, buck-toothed cousin. picked by werthamillion 1 year ago

Britain's slave trading past is getting a human face as an ancestry-tracing website starts putting the personal histories of the victims online for the first time. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Historic Pretzels-For-Little Debbie Swap Sparks Heavy Lunchtime Trading picked by buddha 2 years ago

And also a kind of cunning link between the balloon ban and the weird recipes picked by davethefish 2 years ago

The Dow Jones industrials crossed 12,100 for the first time. Dow component Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which said it will cut capital spending to improve its profits, helped the blue chips to their new trading high. picked by robfouryqr 3 years ago

Any one else collect these back in the late 80's early 90's? picked by donteatpoop 3 years ago

Officials for Trading Standards have launched an investigation to do with Tesco’s Fuel after many complaints have been made that the fuel had been contaminated. picked by marksway 3 years ago

Sentencing of former Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling is due to start later on Monday for his role in the giant fraud that led to the firm's 2001 collapse. picked by robfouryqr 3 years ago

What the headline says. Because of Icepigs post. picked by melgesevad 2 years ago

Anyone else remember this mid-seventies trading card set? I wanted them all SOOOO badly... picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

A Japanese company, Haruyama Trading Co., has developed a suit that it claims protects the wearer from the deadly H1N1 strain of influenza.

<<not the suit picked by nateebiinature 2 months ago

The FBI on Tuesday said it is investigating 14 companies for possible accounting fraud, insider trading or other violations in connection with home loans made to risky borrowers. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

That's right – your world is finally complete! It's amazing wacky fun time with all-new Psychedelic RepublicansTM trading cards! Collect them all, and gaze on in helpless, pupil-dilating wonder as your favorite C-SPAN stars morph into groovy explosions of technicolor quasi-fascism! picked by buddha 2 years ago