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• Stocks fluctuate as profit-taking sets in
The revised bailout plan differs from the original in that it aims to recapitalize banks, not just buy the troubled assets off their books at prices that could leave the banks with losses. “This begins to penetrate the core of the problem,” said ...
• Analog's twilight: Digital trumps physical
Bound books? Google is digitizing more than 3,000 a day. And between 2001 and 2006, sales of blank cassettes dropped by more than 60 percent as flash memory sales spiked, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, which predicts "a slow ...
• Dewey’ chronicles life of author, cat and town
Dewey Readmore Books became the library's star boarder and an international celebrity. Now he's the subject of a best seller that chronicles the struggles of the library worker who found the trembling kitten, the town that embraced him and Dewey ...
• Despite ‘regret,’ U.S. to pour money into banks
... remarkable turnaround for a rescue program that was already the largest bailout in U.S. history. As the plan sped through Congress, the administration said the money was needed to purchase bad mortgage-related assets that are weighing on the books of ...
• Bush critic Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel
None of the books by last week's winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, reached that high on Amazon. Always outspoken, Krugman has compared the current financial crisis to the Great Depression of the 1930s, saying ...