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16 Dec 2009 21:36

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Politics: Health care support is under the magic 50% mark, kids

  • 46% of respondents support the health care bill and would tell their Senator to support it
  • 48% of respondents wouldn’t and would probably get pretty uppity if you asked them again source
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10 Dec 2009 21:21

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Tech: Gamers apparently don’t mind sticking with the same old crap

  • 7.6% dip in all video games except for Farmville source
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23 Nov 2009 20:13

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Culture: Meet the sad, miserable face of anime’s popular decline ^_^

22-year-old Rie Otani spends long hours at low wages drawing anime characters for a market that doesn’t give a crap anymore. We never did. Sorry Rie. ^_^ source
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20 Nov 2009 19:14

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U.S.: It’s official. Obama’s job approval rating is no longer above 50%.

  • 49% of respondents in today’s Gallup poll big-upped the president’s job performance source
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16 Nov 2009 09:57

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Biz, U.S.: General Motors has much less debt than it did before

  • General Motors, just before they came out of the other end of bankruptcy, had $94.7 billion in debt owed, source
  • After its first full quarter out of bankruptcy, GM had $17 billion in debt – $6.7 billion owed to the U.S. government. source
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12 Nov 2009 10:17

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Biz: New jobless claims haven’t looked this low in a long time

  • 502,000 this past week’s jobless claims level – the lowest it’s been in 2009; and that level is still kind of high! source
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04 Nov 2009 20:27

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U.S.: The Senate gets completely behind extending unemployment

  • 14 weeks amount of time the bill, which still needs to go through the House, covers for those about to run out of unemployment source
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01 Nov 2009 10:43

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Biz, Tech: Nintendo needs to do a lot to save its hide quickly

  • We sensed that the market mood was cooling off in the spring. But frankly, we hadn’t expected to get as bad as it did by summer.
  • Nintendo President Satoru Iwata • Describing the quick decline in sales of the Nintendo Wii this year. Despite the company’s cut in price on the Wii, it kind of made things worse this quarter: Profits dipped 52%, while sales slid 28%. Nintendo’s working hard to make some changes to help improve profits – new Mario and Zelda games are coming soon, and the company could make changes to the platform to enable (on the Wii’s end) Blu-Ray discs and (on the DS’ end) 3G and social networking. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. • source
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30 Oct 2009 09:12

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Biz, U.S.: Consumer spending doesn’t keep up with clunker sales

  • +1.4% the increase in consumer spending in August, largely thanks to cash for clunkers source
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29 Oct 2009 10:30

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Biz, Tech: Nintendo can’t count on the Wii to save them anymore

  • 52% drop in quarterly profit – Sony & MS are on top again source
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