January 14, 2012
There has been a fair amount written recently about various institutional cartels that are thriving in the US despite antitrust laws designed to prevent their existence. My previous column compared Wall Street’s few remaining investment banks to a cartel, with explicit pricing power over its hundreds of thousands of customers, an advantage that will [...]
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November 26, 2011
A woman pulls shopping carts through the aisle of a Target store on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Retailers were hoping for more shoppers like Shawn Elzia as the annual Black Friday bargain stampede marked the unofficial start of what is widely expected to be a middling [...]
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November 25, 2011
A man loads a flat screen television into his car on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Bargain hunters flocked to stores late Thursday and overnight Friday, searching for deals on big screen televisions, video games and toys while fretting about their own shaky economic well-being. Some stores, [...]
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November 16, 2011
American student’s singing ambitions rekindled by the sound of Vietnamese Singing and teaching in Vietnam has not made Kyle Cochran (aka Kyo York) rich, but his life is better than ever. Photo courtesy of Kyo York When he first set foot in the Mekong Delta as a volunteer to teach English under a Princeton [...]
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November 16, 2011
Bill Talen, known as Reverend Billy (C), delivers a speech to members of the Occupy Wall Street movement as they return to Zuccotti Park in New York November 15, 2011. A judge upheld New York City’s right to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters from a park on Tuesday after baton-wielding police in riot gear broke [...]
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November 8, 2011
 Sharon Bialek arrives for a news conference where she accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment on November 7, 2011 in New York City. Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, already hit with sexual harassment allegations by three unidentified women, was accused for the first time in public by a woman who said [...]
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October 29, 2011
The Vietnam Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) made a successful debut in the USA with well received performances in New York and Boston on October 23 and 24, Vietnam Plus reported. The two concerts, held at New York City’s Carnegie Hall and at the Boston Symphony Hall in Massachusetts, featured famous works by Samuel Barber, Antonin [...]
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October 28, 2011
Vietnam will host the 16th World Police Music Festival in Hanoi on Oct 22-26. Accordingly, the festival, co-organized by the Ministry of Public Security and Japanese Newspaper Mainichi, will feature outdoor performances by four art groups – police from Tokyo, Seoul, New York and Vietnam. It will also include parades around the Sword Lake [...]
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October 22, 2011
Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) fighter Nabil Ali Dagouich shows on October 21 in the flashpoint city of Misrata Moamer Kadafhi’s golden gun after participating in the capture of Libya’s late strongman. Muammar Qaddafi’s last moments were captured on video and released on the Internet: In one he is alive and in the other, dead. [...]
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October 16, 2011
An NYPD officer keeps watch on Occupy Wall Street protesters at Times Square in New York October 15, 2011. Thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters rallied in New York’s Times Square on Saturday, buoyed by a global day of demonstrations in support of their month long campaign against corporate greed. Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street [...]
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