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WILL SHOPPING SAVE THE ECONOMY
Jun 29, 2011 Economy Leave a comment
The easy availability of credit has created what Robert Manning calls our Credit Card Nation, where we are encouraged to shop until we drop. In the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bush made that point shamelessly when he told the American people that the best way to help in that traumatic period was to go shopping again. He knew, even if most Americans didn't, that it is their non-stop consumption that drives the economy. Without it, I guess, the terrorists could have won. "In fact," Robert Manning writes in his seminal book on credit cards, "with the ascendance of the post-industrial economy, bank credit cards have become an essential technological and financial tool for commercial transactions as well as an increasingly important macro-economic tool for U.S. Policy-makers." Shopping is our real national pastime, [more..]A BONUS IN A DOWN ECONOMY
Jun 29, 2011 Economy Leave a comment
Most of the news surrounding the nation's economy has been shrouded in gloom and doom tones as companies announce massive layoffs and the stock market keeps dropping. Businesses are having trouble staying open and it looks like unemployment is at an all time high everywhere. Still the news out of Maine isn't all bad. In fact there is one place that seems to be thriving in spite of all of the economic woe.Northern Maine Community College report that the student population has only increased as the economy has gone down the tubes. Officials told the Bangor Daily News that the student population this year is thirteen percent higher than the size of the student population last year. Spring Semester admissions rose more than fourteen percent than the admissions last year.This is exciting news to Tim [more..]PUNJABI NEWSPAPER OFFERS DAILY PUNJABI NEWS FOR PUNJABI PEOPLE
Jun 28, 2011 International News Leave a comment
Punjabi is the most widely-spoken language in the India (after English and Hindi): an estimated 500-600 million people speak the language. Hindi belongs to the Indo-Aryan group of languages, a subset of the Indo-European family. The good source to learn Punjabi is the Punjabi Newspapers.Is it a reliable online destination for Punjabi news that you are looking for? For the Punjabi-speaking populace, getting one's daily dose of Punjabi news is common as it's naturally important too. Don't worry; with the increasing count of online news sites, it is easy as well. Just try searching on your favorite search engine with keywords like ‘Punjabi Newspapers' and you are sure to find quite a few excellent resources that would let you read local and international news – all in Hindi.Reading news off the Internet has become a regular [more..]TOP NEWS FOR 2008
Jun 28, 2011 Economy Leave a comment
2008 was a crazy year for everyone. Here is a quick run down of the top news stories of 2008:The Election of President Barack Obama: On November 4, 2008 Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States. He is the first African American President in the country's history and the significance of his taking the oath of office on slave-built steps on January 20, 2009 was not lost on those who attended the events or watched the ceremony on television. President Obama has been busy since being sworn in: closing Guantanamo Bay, passing the Lilly Ledbetter Act, redefining ethics for his administration and setting a tone of "I will be held accountable for what I do and I will always be up front in my decision making." The theme for his administration [more..]NEWS WEBSITES – A COMPREHENSIVE NEWS SOURCE
Jun 27, 2011 International News Leave a comment
Staying updated with the second by second changes in this world is extremely important for both the personal as well as the professional front of an individual. Thankfully there is no scarcity of news sources in today’s world. News website is an intimate source from which we can get all the latest happenings from the world. It is a one stop solution that provides updates on world, national, regional or local news events. We have a plethora of mediums to know the latest news around the planet. Comparing all the mediums such as the television, newspapers and online news, the latter can be considered as the best way for getting updated news. News websites are updating their news 24 hours a day. There is a flood of news websites in the market these days, but some [more..]