A publicity campaign called “Stop the Cyborgs” (seriously guys?) has sprung up offering Google Glass Ban Signs for places that want to ban the as-yet-unreleased technology.
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The government has until March 25 to raise the cash it needs to secure a bailout from the Eurogroup and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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The government has until March 25 to raise the cash it needs to secure a bailout from the Eurogroup and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Cypriots rush to ATMs before savings are docked as part of a bailout deal agreed in Brussels
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“….When it comes to the United States federal government, people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money. … Our debt is so big and so many people own it that it’s preposterous to think that they would stop selling us more…”
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Greece is facing a shortage of medicines amid claims that Big Pharma have halted shipments to the country because of the economic crisis and concerns that the drugs will be exported by middlemen because prices are higher in other countries.
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Candles and matches have almost sold out in two Southwest China counties following online rumors of a coming doomsday event that some believe will bring the end of the world. Panic buying in Shuangliu and Longchang counties, both located in Sichuan province, was stirred by rumors of “three consecutive days of darkness after Dec 21.”
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Fears that the end of the world is nigh have spread across the world with only days until the end of the Mayan calendar, with doomsday-mongers predicting a cataclysmic end to the history of Earth.
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There is a reason why Warren Buffett once referred to derivatives as “financial weapons of mass destruction”. Nobody really knows the total value of all the derivatives that are floating around out there, but estimates place the notional value of the global derivatives market anywhere from 600 trillion dollars all the way up to 1.5 quadrillion dollars.
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The so-called “Lagarde list” includes information about 22,000 wealthy European residents suspected of tax fraud on the basis of data stolen by Hervé Falciani from the Geneva branch of HSBC, which he gave to the French government.
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