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The chief economic adviser for financial services firm Allianz warned that the new coronavirus variant Omicron could shake up the markets, exacerbate supply chain woes, amplify record-high inflation pressures — and possibly result in 1970s-style “stagflation.” Economist Mohamed El-Erian was asked by “Fox News Sunday” host Trace Gallagher about the Dow tumbling 900 points on Friday over fears of the new variant and market uncertainty over the possibility of more lockdowns and travel bans.

Share27 Print Forward Rachel Marsden 110 Comments Of Course America's Psychos Are Ripe for London-Style Riots by Rachel Marsden 08/14/2011 The riots that ravaged urban England take root in phenomena that aren't exclusive to that country, but are increasingly on the rise everywhere. Could the same thing happen in America? Of course it could. And here's why. The acute social breakdown sparked by a single police killing of a perp who happened to be waving around a gun wasn't unlike the rioting that took place in Vancouver, Canada, earlier this year when the Vancouver Canucks hockey team lost the Stanley...

ATLANTA - Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that can be altered by anyone with a computer, has proved remarkably useful for pulling political dirty tricks. Political operatives are covertly rewriting — or defacing — candidates' biographical entries to make the boss look good or the opponent look ridiculous. As a result, political campaigns are monitoring the Web site more closely than ever this election year. Revisions made by Capitol Hill staffers became so frequent and disruptive earlier this year that Wikipedia temporarily blocked access to the site from some congressional Internet addresses. The pranks included bumping up the age of the...