James Altucher, managing partner of Formula Capital, is a true believer in the Internet’s transformative powers and fondly remembers investing during the 1990’s dot.com bubble.But those days are long gone and Altucher now believes “the Internet is de
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Brace yourselves. Only a year after the housing and credit bubble officially burst with the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, a new “bubble of mammoth proportions” is starting to grow, says James Altucher, managing partner, Formula Capital.Bubble 3.0
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Stocks stumbled Monday morning, following another overnight dive by China’s Shanghai Composite and another weekend of stories about how the rally has come “too far, too fast.”Even the
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In the second installment of a three-part interview, the wireless carrier’s top lobbyist explains why openness rules that protect broadband would harm smartphones.



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There’s no doubting the challenges ethanol faces these days.
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WATERLOO — The year 1998 still seems like a bad dream for hog farmers.
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WATERLOO — Nicole Simmerman, 11, has her own side of the kitchen stocked with her own food and furnished with her own toaster. She doesn’t have issues sharing with her family, she has celiac disease — an allergy to wheat gluten.
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The problem of the burgeoning government debt is mainly political, but the adverse consequences may be economic. The trouble is that we don’t know what those consequences may be, when they may occur or even whether they will occur. Without some impending calamity, politicians of both parties recoil from doing anything unpopular that might bring the budget into balance over, say, the next six or seven years. The idea of anticipating and preempting future problems is not on their agenda.
Although the recent surge of budget deficits — the annual gaps between outlays and revenue, resulting…
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As weak stocks rally and speculators take control, there are reasons to believe the market could be in for a pullback. But I’m not betting on it — at least not yet.
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Despite the market’s rebound and the recession’s likely end, dangers still lurk for stocks. Among them: real estate and interest rates.
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Many universities replaced loans with grants and otherwise worked to make college more affordable. But that was before once-hefty endowment funds started shrinking.
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Starting this fall, you’ll have new a way to test the accuracy of the information you find on Wikipedia: a color code that grades entries based on the reliability of authors and other factors.



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Are you concerned about the environment? Do you worry about our country’s dependence on foreign oil?
Welcome to the club.
Do you believe in magic? Have you got a printing press in your basement that spits out dollar bills?
Well then, you must be a member of Congress.
Hailed by environmentalists as the solution to global warming, touted by economists as the key to energy independence, showered by politicians with enough grants, subsidies, and mandates to convince hot-money hedge fund managers and rock star VCs that they could make a killing, the biofuels industry took less than a year to…
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WATERLOO — The year 1998 still seems like a bad dream for hog farmers.
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There’s no doubting the challenges ethanol faces these days.
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