Jeff Rubin News
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French Open champion Maria Sharapova is turning her sweet tooth into a profitable business.
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Maria Sharapova learned so much promoting other people’s products in her first 10 years on the WTA tour that she decided it was time to start selling her own.
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The helicopter swooping over once- pristine spruce forests provides a close-up view of why the province of Alberta, Canada, is among the planet’s most coveted -- and contested -- petroleum hot spots.
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In the 21st century, burning hydrocarbons is critical to achieving the economic expansion that is needed to support the billions of new people who are projected to inhabit the planet. Yet chasing that growth could throw so much carbon into the atmosphere that it may undermine humanity’s very survival.
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Howard Gellis , former head of the corporate debt group at Blackstone Group LP , isn’t taking Warren Buffett’s investment advice to pick stocks over cash.
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About 40 percent of the world’s electric power is generated from burning coal, which is second only to oil in contributing to global energy use.
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TransCanada Corp.’s proposed $7.6 billion Keystone pipeline system, which would take crude from Alberta’s tar sands down through the Midwest and on to Texas and the Gulf Coast refineries, could be scuttled because of concerns about its potential impact on a major aquifer in Nebraska.
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For most of the last century, cheap oil powered global economic growth. But in the last decade, the price of oil has quadrupled, and that shift will permanently shackle the growth potential of the world’s economies.
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It is an election year, so Republicans are once again calling to privatize Amtrak.
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The Federal Reserve has announced a third round of quantitative easing, a set of asset purchases designed to increase the money supply. It said it would keep easing until job growth accelerates, and continue a “highly accommodative” monetary policy “for a considerable time after the economic recovery strengthens.”
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