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Carnival of the Capitalists Welcome to the first edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists. Modeled after the Carnival of the Vanities, this weekly roundup is intended to be a "Best Of the Blogosphere" for posts covering business, economics, stocks, accounting, taxes, business law, and related topics. More info can be found in my first post on the subject. There are some excellent posts here from some very intelligent people. I hope this eventually gets recognized by the major business news sources because, while bloggers may not always write as well as the pros, I think we can provide a...

1827 posts to go until we reach 1,000,000 posts when will it happen? I'm on pins and needels waiting!

October 02, 2003 How to Help Editor's Note: We've had a number of questions about how to send care packages to our troops and have added some links to our link section about that. Sally Vaci sent her care packages through Operation Military Pride. Operation Gratitude is another organization where you can help send care packages, either by donating money (tax deductible), getting items for the wish list, or writing letters. This holiday season, they plan on sending 2000 care packages to our troops throughout the world. In another vein, Chief Wiggles over in Iraq is doing a toy...

<p>Don Novey, former leader of a union that raised $3 million for candidates and causes last year, now makes $114,191 a year on a state board.</p> <p>Don Novey, once one of the people legislators feared most, now earns more than $114,000 per year as a political appointee.</p>

<p>SACRAMENTO - In the four months since Gray Davis won re-election, the Democratic governor has rewarded at least 17 former campaign workers with state jobs -- many with generous raises -- even as California prepares to lay off hundreds of state workers.</p>

Is anybody else having the problem of which I speak? It just started for me today.

The US State Department has posted on one of its web sites a translation of a letter purportedly written this month by Osama bin Laden. The site, which offers threat assessments to US companies doing business abroad, does not say the letter is genuine. However, advertises a link to the translation under the heading "new security incident report" and asks readers to look at it. "The attention of web site readers is invited to a purported letter by Osama bin Laden to the people of Afghanistan in late August 2002," the site said. A password is required to access the...

There used to be a way to access archived posts. Is this still possible? The responses listed under "Comments" don't seem to go back beyond that page.

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