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The credibility of the university’s world-renowned Climatic Research Unit - and British science - were under threat.

In several of the emails, climate researchers discussed how to arrange for favorable reviewers for papers they planned to publish in scientific journals. At the same time, climate researchers at times appeared to pressure scientific journals not to publish research by other scientists whose findings they disagreed with.

ClimateGate reveals top UN IPCC scientists ‘discussing how they can pressure an academic journal not to accept the work of climate skeptics with whom they disagree’

Sous l’emballage séduisant, ce Grand emprunt n’est qu’un budget bis qui ne fera qu’accroître le déficit sans relancer la croissance.

these people would have loved global warming if it had existed…

Pessimiste, moi ?

New Federal Accounting Standards revision 167 will be effective Jan. 1, 2010. In essence, it’s a new accounting rule that will force financials to bring bad, off-balance sheet assets onto their books… thus a potential trigger for more Wall Street carnage. This is likely one reason why banks have been hoarding cash and jacking rates on business credit cards - for creditworthy customers - up to 30% with no advance warning.

Take a moment to make sure you’re not in the housing market for the wrong reasons. We’ve found that several of our most cherished beliefs about the value of a home don’t hold true

“Note however, the thought process of Barney Frank: We have to keep selling houses to people who cannot afford them in order to keep home prices from falling”

So there’s one smart person in Washington DC ?

The MIT Real Estate Center said that commercial property prices has dropped almost 42% over the past 2 years. As a result of that drop, about fifty-five percent the $1.4 trillion commercial mortgages that will mature in the next five years are underwater. The delinquency rate for commercial mortgages climbed to 5% in October. A year ago the delinquency rate was just 0.77%.

La gigantesque et triste farce mondiale qu’est l’affaire du réchauffement climatique pose la question de l’évolution de la méthode scientifique au 21ème siècle, tout particulièrement lorsque des décisions politiques lourdes de conséquences peuvent en découler.

Such costly battles illustrate why it’s crucial that shareholders be allowed to put up alternate slates of directors without having to spend millions of dollars

If the founding fathers knew that we had created yet another central bank and, not only was it printing up money to fund government spending but it was buying up home loans, they’d roll over in their graves