NANNY STATE 2012: Mayor Bloomberg Aims to Ban Super-Sized Sodas and Sweet, Sugary Drinks Throughout NYC

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Fed’s Once-Secret Data Compiled by Bloomberg Released to Public

By Phil Kuntz and Bob Ivry, Bloomberg.com Bloomberg News today released spreadsheets showing daily borrowing totals for 407 banks and companies that tapped Federal Reserve emergency programs during the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis. It’s the first time such data have been publicly available in this form. To download a zip file of the spreadsheets, [...]

Netflix May Increase Your Internet Fees

By Sajid Farooq, NBCBayArea.com Just call it the Netflix effect. Internet providers across the country are discussing ways to profit off of surging Internet users, according to a report by Bloomberg. With more and more people watching movies and television online through sites like Los Gatos-based Netflix and Hulu, Internet providers are preparing to charge [...]

New-home sales headed for record low in 2011

The number of new homes sold inched up slightly in October, but builders aren’t throwing any parties. 2011 is shaping up to be the worst year for the sale of new homes since the Commerce Department began keeping records in 1963, with sales below even last year’s record low. A little hope in building-permit numbers? [...]

Luke Rudkowski confronts Mayor Bloomberg on The John Gambling Show

Luke Rudkowski confronts Mayor Bloomberg on The John Gambling Show

10/28/11 Luke Rudkowski, A.K.A. “Robert”, calls into The John Gambling Show to ask Mayor Bloomberg a real question.              

Immortal Technique on #ows, Obama, 2012 election, Ron Paul, Immigration, Bloomberg

Immortal Technique on #ows, Obama, 2012 election, Ron Paul, Immigration, Bloomberg

             

Bellevue v. Bloomberg: NYC shootings another gun control failure

By Dave Workman, Seattle Gun Rights Examiner Labor Day weekend in New York City saw 46 people get shot, one of them fatally, and now the Bellevue-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the casualty count amounts to “a pitiful demonstration of the abject failure of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun [...]

Mayor Bloomberg predicts riots in the streets if economy doesn’t create more jobs

ShareThis Mayor Bloomberg predicts riots in the streets if economy doesn’t create more jobs 16 Sep 2011 New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg warned Friday there would be riots in the streets if Washington doesn’t get serious about generating jobs. “We have a lot of kids graduating college, can’t find jobs,” Bloomberg said on [...]

High Food Prices Changing Diets, Survey Says

By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg.com Almost two-fifths of consumers surveyed in 17 countries said high food prices have changed their diets, with people in poorer nations hit hardest by increased costs. More than half said they eat different food than two years ago, mainly for cost and health reasons, according to the survey of more than [...]