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12 Nov 2009 21:49

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Biz: Disney had some pretty awesome profits (up 18%!) last quarter

  • $895 million in profits, thanks largely to ESPN source
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12 Nov 2009 09:46

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Biz: Intel stops being a jerk to AMD, pays out a bunch of money

  • $1.25 billion in let-this-go settlement money source
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10 Nov 2009 01:19

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U.S.: Vice President Joe Biden is a pauper compared to most of Congress

  • $27,000 the Veep’s total net worth source
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10 Nov 2009 01:14

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U.S.: Congress has a lot of really rich people not feeling the recession’s pain

  • 237 members of both branches of Congress are millionaires; that’s nearly half source
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07 Nov 2009 11:17

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Culture: For rapper 50 Cent, it’s “get high-priced security or die tryin'”

50 Cent spends $20,000 a week on security. His Vitamin Water money is probably gone at that rate. source
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05 Nov 2009 22:30

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U.S.: Exiting New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine not acting like a lame duck

  • $400 million the amount of money Corzine wants cut from the freaking budget like, uh, yesterday source
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04 Nov 2009 21:44

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Culture: Nicolas Cage is broke, wearing a “will work for food” sandwich board

  • $6.5 million the amount of money Nicolas Cage owes in back taxes; he blames his awful financial advisor source
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03 Nov 2009 20:25

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Biz: Bailed-out banks throwing more money at employees this year

  • $117.6 billion in paydays so far in 2009 for eight top bailed-out banks source
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02 Nov 2009 09:27

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Biz: A year and some clunker sales make Ford huge profits

  • $997 million the size of Ford’s profits in the third quarter, largely helped by Cash for Clunker sales source
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01 Nov 2009 21:23

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Biz, U.S.: Who probably takes the worst of the bankrupt CIT? Taxpayers.

  • $2.3 billion in CIT TARP funds, gone like the wind? source
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