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While trying, and failing, to access Olympics news on the BBC website recently, I felt as though I had stepped into a time machine when an image showed up in the browser. See that curious clown up there? Well, Olympics fans, meet Test Card F.

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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! By David Chalian The sluggish economic recovery would certainly get a short-term boost if the housing market picked up a bit of steam, but any notion that a boom in housing alone will be the key to a fully recovered American economy should be eradicated according to former Obama [...]

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Apple has confirmed that it has temporarily suspended the practice of resetting Apple ID passwords by customers over the phone.

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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Marc Faber, the famous investor and strategist, says that neither candidate in the upcoming U.S. Presidential election is worth voting for, at least if the goal is fixing the economy. In fact, says Faber, the Thailand-based author of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, if you put a gun [...]

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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! The U.S. presidential election is just three months away and the race is on to keep the campaign coffers full in what is expected to be the most expensive election ever. In July, Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee raised $101 million, roughly $25 million more than President [...]

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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Legendary investor Marc Faber is not known for taking a balanced approach in the global market, but that is exactly his investing strategy at the moment. In a phone interview with the The Daily Ticker, the editor and publisher of The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report says he is [...]

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