The Financial Times, the salmon-colored authoritative newspaper that is closely read by traders and other financial types around the world, had an eye-opener for readers this morning.
It wasn’t the front-page, four-column wide headline, “Obama’s critics pounce on falling dollar as fears grow over currency.”
It wasn’t the graphic showing a red downward [...]

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– Eric Auchard is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own –
  
By Eric Auchard
LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Dell Inc has made a solid move into computer services by buying Perot Systems, even if the hefty price Dell is paying is hard to justify on Perot’s standalone prospects alone. 
And the price looks very [...]

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Ever wanted to ask Sarah Palin over dinner what she really thinks? Now’s your chance. But it’s going to cost you — more than $25,000.
Dinner for five with the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate is up for grabs on ebay. The last bid was more than $38,000 (yes that’s three zeroes) for a dinner whose value is being [...]

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Just 11 months ago, Hassan Nemazee ranked as one of the Democratic Party’s premier money men — hosting a $28,500-a-head fundraiser in his luxurious home on New York’s Upper East Side for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

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Talk about a political football.
The Anchorage Daily News in Alaska is reporting, and The Providence Journal is repeating, a tantalizing rumor that Sarah Palin is going to move to Rhode Island.
No one has confirmed that (including us, and we tried). Even the Anchorage paper which started the speculation says it’s probably not true.
But frankly, Sarah Palin — the former [...]

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