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Core or Periphery?: Poland's Battle Over Embracing the Euro
Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the Polish business community want to boost competitiveness by introducing the euro. However, the opposition and a majority of Poles believe the country's independence and stability could suffer.
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Why you should not buy a house without looking at it first...
A clifftop house that was bought at auction without being seen or surveyed by the buyer has started to collapse after the latest in a series of devastating landslides.
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'Country pricing' a cause of ridiculous Canada-U.S. price gaps
Canadians are paying far more than Americans for the same products because of a systemic and unjustifiable markup scheme by many manufacturers, a retail expert says.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Why We Need To Double NASA’s Budget
In a video with the bleak title “We Stopped Dreaming,” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes the case for space exploration—and not just because it may help us find a new planetary home someday.
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Game over for Kickstarter project accused of fraud
Dirty Bird Sports has cancelled its campaign to raise $500,000 to build an NCAA Football college game for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
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How to Travel Like a Billionaire: All That Money Can Buy
There’s a growing set of the super-rich who are pushing the boundaries of luxury to its limits. Lauren Lipton reports on how—and where—the top 0.01 percent travel, and sees for herself what it’s like to vacation like a billionaire.
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Obama administration defends $222,000 file-sharing verdict
Government urges Supreme Court not to review Minnesota woman's huge penalty.
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Opium is currency in Afghanistan
Opium has crept in and interlaced with Afghan life; a life that has already been destroyed to some extent by war. Opium is the main agricultural cash crop of Afghanistan. There are places where opium has become currency. People use it to buy clothes or get a haircut. It’s not worth money, it is money.
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How Groupon is Losing $1,117,808 Every Single Day
Groupon is losing over $408 million per year because of poor pricing strategy. Learn why and how you can prevent this in your business.
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40% of Americans Now Make Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage
You may have seen charts like the one to the right from the Economic Policy Institute, showing how working people’s wages stopped going up along with productivity gains.
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A Dozen Watches That Cost More Than Your House
Shelter? A warm hearth and roof over your head? Who needs any of that when you can blow a half million bucks on swanky, hyper-complicated timepieces like these?
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You Can Be On The NYT Bestseller's List For A Measly $231,000
It came to light in September that celebrities like Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and more have been buying fake Twitter followers to boost their numbers.
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Gay Americans pay more taxes for fewer rights
Suze Orman says our federal government should legalize same-sex marriage and end discrimination against gay couples.
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This Bitcoin ATM could be coming to a store near you
Buying Bitcoins with cash at a brick-and-mortar store could be closer than you think.
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Are We in Danger of a Beer Monopoly?
On average, one new brewery opens up in the U.S. every day. So how are we in danger of a beer monopoly?
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Male Nurses Make More Money
Hospital patients are more likely than ever to see a male nurse at their bedside -- and odds are he earns more than the female nurse down the hall.
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Quebec student protests after Marois praises peaceful process
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois has declared that the unrest related to student protests is over in her province, one year and one week after it began.
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The Dark Secret Of The Only Car To Appear On American Paper Money
The government would love to keep you from knowing any of this. If they had it their way, Jalopnik would be shut down and I'd be thrown into one of the secret gulags the Department of the Treasury operates inside Roosevelt's nostrils on Mt.Rushmore. But I won't keep quiet anymore. I'm gonna blow the lid off this thing once and for all, and tell you all the dark, disgusting, and filthy secrets behind the only car ever to appear on US money. It's on the back of the ten-dollar bill.
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Samsung takes a page from Apple's Passbook with new Wallet app
Samsung took the wraps off of its new Samsung Wallet app during a developer conference at Mobile World Congress on Wednesday. The Wallet app is designed to let users store things such as event...
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5-year-old sorry for racking up $2,500 iPad bill in 10 minutes
Danny Kitchen asks his parents for their iPad password so he can play a free game. It turns out not to have been quite so free.
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