Friday, December 4, 2009
News Morning Newsdome: Making good cents
Posted by Bobby Feingold @senorbobby on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:47 PM
>> Stocks rose to a 14-month high after unemployment rates reportedly dropped to 10% in November from 10.2% the month before. Well hot damn! Let's all invest in Wall Street! (CNN)
>> The government unemployment report provides economists hope that December will be the first month of job growth in two years. Economists predicted a loss of 125,000 jobs for last month, but in fact only 11,000 jobs were lost, so really economists are pretty much inept. (Forbes.com)
>> Washington's National Zoo must return Tai Shan, its beloved four-year-old panda, to China under terms of a $10 million loan agreement. This is by far the most devastating of China's many U.S.-lending, but certainly not the last. (USA Today)
>> NATO countries and other ISAF contributors pledged today to send 7,000 additional troops to supplement the U.S. proposed 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan. While I'm really pleased to see the U.S. is working with the rest of the world instead of ignoring them, couldn't the collective world come up with more than 7,000? (Voice of America News)
>> And finally: Dana Hanna from Maryland interrupted his wedding last month to update his Twitter and Facebook accounts from the altar. The minister even remarked, "It's now official on Facebook. It's official in my book." Now I'm waiting for divorce tweets? (Reuters)
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