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Center for Energy and Economic Development

The Center for Energy and Economic Development (CEED) was set up to look into the interests of the coal industry. The CEED was merged with the ABEC (Americans for Balanced Energy Choices) on 17th April 2008. The Center for Energy and Economic Development had almost 200 members which inluded eight Fotune 200 companies. More than 70 of the 200 member companies represnted at the Board Member level of CEED. CEED’s members inluded coal producers, railroads, utilities, equipment manufacturers and suppliers, barge shippers, and labor unions.

Senate Panel Hears Former Employees Expose Corrupt Culture of Rating Firms

Former executives at Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s offered damaging critiques to the Senate Permanent Sub-Commttee on Investigations of the practices at the two credit rating agencies during the run-up to the financial crisis.

Can PC Diffusion Solve Third World Education Problems ??? – EN ESPANOL !!!

Well, things must definitely be a little boring in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and clearly devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives,

Can PC Diffusion Solve Third World Education Problems ???

ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD is a nonprofit group that thinks big.

Since 2007, it has sold inexpensive but rugged laptop computers to the governments of less-developed countries.

ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD is a nonprofit group that thinks big.

Challenging China in Rare Earth Minerals, Key to Clean Green High Tech

Rare earth elements are minerals crucial to military hardware and the latest wind turbines and hybrid gasoline-electric cars,

meaning they are now, and will become increasingly, crucial for the smooth and, hopefully, rapid development of advanced clean / green technologies.

Mobile Internet will Overtake the Desktop Internet Within 5 Years

The mobile internet is ramping up faster than the desktop (PC-based) internet did, leading to projections that mobile internet usage could overtake desktop access by 2013 – 2014.

Charting the S&P 500: When “Good” News Is Actually Bad

More often than not, companies that are likely to fall short tend to pre-announce their results, in part to lower the market’s expectations.

Historically, two companies pre-announce bad news for every company that hints at better-than-expected results to come.

Big Banks Transforming “Micro-Finance” Sector in Third World

Drawn by the prospect of hefty profits from even the smallest of loans, a raft of banks and financial institutions now dominate the micro-finance field, with some charging interest rates of 100 percent or more.

“We created microcredit to fight the loan sharks; we didn’t create microcredit to encourage new loan sharks,” Muhammad Yunus,

IRS Tax Audits of US Big Businesses Declining, Says Study

Despite the federal government’s repeated pledges to crack down on big businesses that underpay their taxes,

the Internal Revenue Service has decreased in recent years the time it spends auditing the returns of the nation’s largest corporations, according to a new study.

New Pricing System for Iron Ore, Key for Steelmaking

Rio Tinto, the British-Australian mining giant, said it had joined two other global mining companies and decided to sell iron ore based on quarterly prices, a move that effectively ends a decades-old benchmark annual pricing system.