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Melissa Kaplan

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German prudence great for rainy days

Nov 14, 2008
We've been covering Germany quite a bit this week, as the country has officially gone into recession. But according to U.K.'s Telegraph, it may be...

Obama meant it about C02

Nov 13, 2008
And now, more damage for U.S. auto makers' bottom lines. Bloomberg is reporting President-elect Obama is expected to grant California a waiver...

GM gets the 'Pelosi bump'

Nov 12, 2008
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came out in support of General Motors on the "too big to fail" side, and it paid off -- Bloomberg is reporting that GM...

Some good news in the fight against AIDS

Nov 11, 2008
This is nothing short of amazing -- the Wall Street Journal has a story on a mutation that functionally cured an HIV patient of the virus. A...

Google leaves Yahoo deal

Nov 5, 2008
Google announced Wednesday it was walking away from an ad partnership with Yahoo to avoid a lawsuit with federal antitrust regulators, according to...

We're running up an 'eco debt,' too

Oct 29, 2008
While credit woes are causing a global crisis in the markets, a different kind of worldwide debt is being racked up as well. The BBC reports a...

Gold ain't glimmering

Oct 24, 2008
Gold is often seen as an investment safe haven when the economy falls on hard times. But today it's down 11 percent, the biggest weekly percentage...

Strauss-Kahn apologizes to IMF for scandal

Oct 22, 2008
An investigation has begun into IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged affair with a coworker. The New York Times reports Strauss...

Hollywood to Seattle: We said no copies!

Oct 1, 2008
Once again reminding the public that Hollywood will go to great lengths to fight piracy, six movie studios are suing Seattle-based digital media...