Nearly two years after the bottom fell out of the construction market, Brian Hazelton still can’t get used to the eerie silence that envelops him each time he walks onto the factory floor of Schwing America Inc. in White Bear Township. The chief executive of the construction-equipment maker remembers when the steady pounding of air wrenches and power tools made it virtually impossible to hear inside Schwing’s giant factory, where welders and mechanics transform beams of steel into 100,000-pound

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The worst month of the year actually ended on a positive note! September is typically the worst month of the year for the stock market , but all three major indexes posted gains. Photo by nDevilTV, courtesy of flickr Dow (DJIA) - Price on 9/1/09: 9,310.60, Price at close on 9/30/09: 9,712.28, one month rate of return: +4.31 percent. Nasdaq – Price on 9/1/09: 1,968.89, Price at close on 9/30/09: 2,122.42, one month rate of return: +7.8 percent. S&P 500 – Price on 9/1/09:

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by John Browne – Senior Market Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital As a part-time member of the press corps, I had the good fortune to attend many of the public sessions at last week’s G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh. As impressive as it was to closely witness the gathering of countries representing some 85 percent of the world’s GDP (along with the governors of the World Bank, the IMF and the European Central Bank), it was equally remarkable to witness the immense security forces deployed to restrai

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Houses bounce too… Not much happened yesterday. The Dow fell 47 points. The newspapers attributed the reversal to surprisingly low consumer confidence numbers. Apparently, consumers aren’t so sure this crisis is over. As we reported yesterday, they’re saving money…maybe even at an 8% rate. Oil didn’t move yesterday. Neither did gold. The Wall Street Journal reported that markets were reacting to “mixed data.” That is to say, some reports were encouraging. Others were not. It was as

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The debate over short-selling took center stage in Washington on Wednesday as government officials and representatives from Wall Street discussed the possibility of implementing new and tougher regulations that could have a serious effect on the lucrative securities lending business. Investment firms are trying to persuade legislators that the practice known as naked short-selling is acceptable and that further restrictions on this practice would be detrimental to market liquidity. Naked short-

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Filed under: Sedan , Government/Legal , Hyundai , Police/Emergency , Specialty , Luxury Hyundai Equus LV500 Limousine – Cick above for high-res image gallery By now, vehicles like the Genesis and Equus have convinced most of how far Hyundai’s come from bring the purveyors of punchline hatchbacks. But in case that wasn’t enough, Hyundai has dropped the bigger-than-the-average-bear Equus VL500 limousine on the home market. Still not enough? How about presidential-grade arm

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Today we have a wonderful treat for you – that notorious masked interviewer Pádraig Ó Méalóid has a cracking new interview for us, this time with the brilliant Bryan Talbot (or I should say Doctor Bryan Talbot now!) and, like his previous Alan Moore interviews here, its a long and in-depth piece, so we’re going to split it into two parts. This first part sees Bryan largely discussing his earlier work, from selling copies of Oz and volunteering artwork for the early Tolkien Society to Brainstorm

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Throughout 2005, the year after the company went public on NASDAQ, Google commissioned multiple research agencies to run analysis on the importance of Internet search and search advertising in purchasing decisions across a variety of verticals. While part of this research – which the company probably still orders considering how important the business continues to be for Google’s bottom line – eventually finds its way to the Google AdWords product page , it’s interesting to gain some insight

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by Michael Sasaki Every person deserves a debt-free life. A debt-free life can ensure financial security and a healthy life. Long term debt planning can save mental stress and when planned early can help to manage finances well. Research has proven that most people fall into the debt trap due to their spending habits. So, if one feels that they have a spending problem that will cause a debt situation in the future, immediate amends should be made. When the going is smooth, it is best to ma

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